Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young will present “Immigration, Mental Health, and Health Care Access among Latinos in Rural Communities” at the Minority Health Disparities Initiative’s Health Equity Grand Rounds. The event will take place at noon Oct. 16 via Zoom. It is free and open to the public.
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In this talk, Young will share findings from the Policies Influencing Rural Latino Health Study, a population-based survey examining how U.S.- and foreign-born Latinos experience and navigate immigration policy in rural California and Arizona. She will highlight the relationship between immigration policy and community well-being, as well as lessons learned from conducting research with hard-to-reach populations.
Young is an assistant professor of public health at the University of California, Merced. She received her doctorate in community health sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a Master of Public Health with an emphasis in maternal and child health from UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Her research centers around the impact of the U.S. immigration system on the health and well-being of immigrants and their families.
She has developed new frameworks and measures to examine the intersections of immigration policies, citizenship/legal status, and health, and has conducted some of the first empirical studies demonstrating that immigration policy drives health inequities. A guiding principle in her work is partnering with immigrants and community members as active contributors in the design and interpretation of research.
