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UC Merced public health Professor Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The $3 million grant will fund Young's ambitious, five-year research project to understand how immigration policy influences health care access and the well-being of Latinos in rural California and Arizona counties, including Merced, Tulare, Imperial, Monterey and Napa.
While immigration is an oft-discussed topic in the United States, there is less understanding of how immigration-related policies affect access to health care and mental health care, particularly for Latino populations living in under-resourced rural communities.
"Immigration policy is a really big factor in what it means to be Latino in the United States," Young said. "Living here in the San Joaquin Valley, we see that Latinos' day-to-day lives are shaped by the climate toward immigrants and immigration."
This project is directed at quantifying and analyzing those impacts.
Young will work with researchers all housed at UC Merced. The team consists of public health professors Nancy Burke, Sidra Goldman-Mellor and Alec Chan-Golston, and economics Professor Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, along with two doctoral students.
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