With support from the CU Denver’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, Dr. Ivan J. Ramírez (Health and Behavioral Sciences) launched a prototype lab (Civic Engagement and Climate Justice [CECJ] ThinkLab) that fosters interdisciplinary research experiences for undergraduate students interested in the many facets of climate justice and social...

Gabriella Mayne, PhD student in the Department of Health & Behavioral Sciences, published a paper in Obstretrics & Gynecology , entitled “Why Causation Matters: Rethinking ‘Race’ as a Risk Factor.” This paper forms the impetus for what she and her co-author will present next month at the American Society for...

Sara Yeatman, Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, was an academic visitor at the University of Oxford’s Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science and Nuffield College for three days in early February. Among other activities, Yeatman gave a talk entitled, “The impact of access to contraception on women’s...

Assistant Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences Ivan Ramírez recently published, “Geography of Disparity: Connecting COVID-19 Vulnerability and Social Determinants of Health in Colorado” , featured in the Special Issue on COVID-19 and Adverse Social Determinants of Health in Behavioral Medicine . Using an exploratory geospatial approach and syndemic lens,...

Laura Meyers will be honored this month for her role as a founding member of the Arizona State University COVID-19 Case Investigation and Community Response Team. The team’s student and staff workforce provide support to the Maricopa County Department of Public Health by interviewing cases, or individuals who tested positive...

Assistant Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences Ivan Ramirez recently published “ Deconstructing the spatial effects of El Niño and vulnerability on cholera rates in Peru: Wavelet and GIS Analyses ” in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology . This retrospective research yields new insights about epidemic cholera during the 1990s in...

Health and Behavioral Sciences Alum Emily Hammad Mrig won runner-up for the best new writer prize from Sociology of Health and Illness for her recent publication "Integrating fundamental cause theory and Bourdieu to explain pathways between socioeconomic status and health: the case of health insurance denials for genetic testing."

Meng Li, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, recently co-authored an article titled, “ Physician’s flawed heuristics in the delivery room ,” published in the journal Science . The article discusses the general background and implications of an original research article...

Associate Professor and Chair of Health and Behavioral Science Sara Yeatman recently co-published, “ The impact of contraceptive access on high school graduation ” in Science Advances, the Magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The research team used a natural experiment afforded by a 2009 Colorado...

The southern Colorado internet provider Jade Communications, run by alum Jordan Wehe (Public Health BS '15) and his brother Josh, was recently named “Innovator of the Year” by Calix during the service providers’ annual Calix Innovations Awards .