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COVID-19 pandemic effects on California’s families with young children using CHIS 2020-2021

This project aims to provide insights into the effects of prolonged and heightened pressures placed on parents and guardians taking care of young children during the pandemic.

Principal Investigator: Ninez Ponce

Contextualizing social risk: overlays with early life adversity and local resource environment details

Examine how childhood adversity is related to social risk later in life and how the local resource context influences this relationship.

Principal Investigator: Nicole Pereira

Community Drinking Water Sources and Gestational Diabetes

Analyze community water sources as risk factors that may influence gestational diabetes rates.

Principal Investigator: Michael Kaminski

Climate change health effects

The physical and mental health impacts of climate change-related exposures, such as extreme heat and wildfire smoke, are not yet well understood.

Principal Investigator: Kelsi Perttula

Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative Evaluation

(1) how CYBHI is implemented; (2) how, for whom, and in what context CYBHI made progress toward achieving a transformed and equitable behavioral health ecosystem for children and youth; and (3) whether the initiative made progress toward improving population behavioral health outcomes.

Principal Investigator: Joseph Zickafoose

Child and Adolescent Mental and Behavioral Health Care in California: Examining Provider Distribution, Diversity, and Delivery Methods

This dissertation aims to study mental and behavioral health provider characteristics to reduce disparities in mental health access and utilization among children and adolescents in California.

Principal Investigator: Michelle Truong

Cardiovascular disease-related health behaviors and acculturation among US-born, African-born, and Caribbean-born Black Californians

H1-Compared to African American (US-born Black persons), we expect significantly lower rates of smoking and binge drinking, significantly better diet quality, and higher rates of physical activity among foreign-born Black people (African-born and Caribbean-born) H2-Higher acculturation will be associated with higher rates of smoking and binge drinking, poorer diet quality and lower rates of physical activity.

Principal Investigator: Kougang T Anne Mbe

Cardiometabolic health across the life course among Hispanic/Latino immigrant groups in CA

Evaluate how legal immigration status and household immigration status contribute to disparities in cardiometabolic health across the life course among Hispanic/Latino populations in California.

Principal Investigator: Jasmine Aqua

Building a Model for Consumer Health Spending and Affordability (CalSIM)

The primary goal will be to analyze the impact of proposed employer requirements on business as a percent of overall business costs, how the expenses might be absorbed by firms and the impacts on employment and the economy, including consumer affordability in terms of out-of-pocket costs, individual premiums, and employee-paid premiums.

Principal Investigator: Gerald Kominski

Breaking the Cycle: Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences, Legal Status, and Health Disparities Among Californians

This project examines how legal status moderates the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adult health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups in California.

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