Health and Behavioral Sciences PhD Alumni

Our recent alumni have taken postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University and the University of Texas at Austin; faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Colorado School of Public Health, and Regis University; and research positions at Denver Health, the Veteran's Administration, and Kaiser Permanente. 


Alumni Profiles

2022

Dissertation Title: Education and Chronic Care Management: The Case of HIV Care and Treatment in Southern and Eastern Africa

Dissertation Title: Rising Pressure: An Ethnographic Study of Housing and Health Amidst Overlapping Crises

Dissertation Title: The Relationship Between Medical Assistant Job Roles and Employee Outcomes: A Mixed Methods Study

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Dissertation title: Minority- and Immigrant-Owned Small Business and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

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2021

Dissertation title: The Effect of a Breastfeeding Promotion App on first time Mexican-American mothers in association with acculturation and their cultural lived-experiences

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Dissertation title: Beyond Risk: Exploring the Relationship between Maternal Perceptions of Social Support and Child Body Mass Index Using the Fragile Families Study

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Dissertation title: Underutilization of Hospice Care in Older African Americans

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2020

Dissertation title: Body Dissatisfaction and Female Athletes: The Role of Sexual Orientation

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Dissertation title: You Can’t Just Hope for the Best: A Case Study of Department of Veterans Affairs Home-Based Long-Term Care Programs and Non-VA Long-Term Care Settings in Puerto Rico

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Dissertation title: Pain, Patients and Opioid Prescribing Policies: An Examination of Problem Representations and Effects

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2019

Dissertation title: Assessing the Value of the Vaccine Social Media Intervention Through the Re-aim Framework Implementation Dimension

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Dissertation title: Beyond a Seat at the Table: Patient Representation and Community Health Centers

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Dissertation title: Critical Periods of Maternal Stress Exposure and Early Childhood Obesity: Exploring Risk and Protective Factors in New Zealand

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Dissertation title: Unequal Coverage: The Relationship Among Socioeconomic Status, Type of Health Insurance Plan and Access to New Medical Technology

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Dissertation title: "Conceptual Models, Meet Contextual Variables!" Reintroducing Context to the Study of Fatalism and Cardiovascular Disease Screening Behavior of Latinos

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Dissertation title: Assessing the Value of the Vaccine Social Media Intervention Through the Re-aim Framework Implementation Dimension

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2018

Dissertation title: Medical-Legal partnerships : reducing health disparities by disrupting cumulative disadvantages faced by vulnerable Colorado families

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Dissertation title: The Social Construction of Nature and Health: Perceived Health Benefits of Engaging with Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

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Dissertation title: Translating Resilience: A Qualitative Interview Study of Hispanic Women and the Resort Service Industry in Colorado

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2016

Dissertation title: Shifting focus from individuals to institutions: The role of gendered health institutions on men's use of HIV services

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Dissertation title: Gender, power, & vertical HIV prevention in urban Zambia

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2015

Dissertation title: "The challenges are many" : women's perceptions of cervical cancer and cervical cancer screening in rural Tanzania

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Dissertation title: Migration, family, gender, and reproductive health of Mexican-origin young women

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Dissertation title: Social structure and livelihood adaptive strategies of urban farmers in response to land use change along the Yamuna River in Delhi, India

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Dissertation title: Stigma and the intergenerational transmission of health: Implications for physical and mental health among children of female sex workers

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Dissertation title: Sex ratio and its effects on sexual beliefs and practices: A comparison of whites and blacks

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Dissertation title: The complex patient's experience with depression : the role of competing illness in depression symptom improvement

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Dissertation title: Rural seniors' medication access: The problem of structural health literacy in the San Luis Valley

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2013

Dissertation title: A weighty matter: Effects of adiposity on adult neurocognitive health

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Dissertation title: Gender relationship power, and HIV testing in rural Malawi

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Dissertation title: Latina patients' social support and self-efficacy managing type 2 diabetes mellitus

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Dissertation title: A mixed method investigation of predictors of pain and disability in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis

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Dissertation title: Consumer Health Informatics and the Medically Underserved: The Role of Information Technology in Health Information Access and Health Communication in the United States

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Dissertation title: Are All Hits the Same? A Mixed Methods Investigation of Gender and Violence in Heterosexual Relationships

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2012

Dissertation title: Nourishing choice: Using latent class analysis in mixed methods to identify factors promoting long-term breastfeeding among primiparous women in Colorado

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Dissertation title: Public bicycle sharing as a population-scale health intervention for active transportation in Denver, Colorado

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Dissertation title: Childhood Obesity: Parents vs Environment, Who has the Greater Influence

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Dissertation title: The meth factor: Stigma, authoritative discourse, and women who use

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2011

Dissertation title: Making the choice : cesarean delivery by maternal request versus planned vaginal birth

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Dissertation title: How are migrants selected on health? Evidence from a Mexico-Colorado labor stream

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2010

Dissertation title: Assessing health literacy and health information needs of persons at risk for cardiovascular disease

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Dissertation title: Direct-to-consumer genetics: Media messages and public perceptions

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Dissertation title: La Cuarentena : an ethnographic study of Mexican immigrant families postpartum

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