Dr. Lu’s research interests are in cancer etiology and prevention, cancer prognosis, obesity epidemiology, and pharmacoepidemiology.
Research topic areas include: Biostatistics; Clinical trials; Research methodology and rigor; Research ethics, ethics in clinical trials; Fragile X spectrum of disorders; Nephrology; Epidemiology; Clinical and translational science.
The Voices for Community Health Equity and New Systems and System Changes (VOICES) lab at UCI, directed by Dr. Alana LeBrón, leverages research processes to (1) work alongside communities of color and low-income communities to understand how policies, systems, and environmental factors shape heal…
Dr. Sunmin Lee’s Social Epidemiology Lab conducts research to reduce health disparities experienced by minoritized groups and immigrants, particularly among Asian Americans. We use a mixed methods approach, combining quantitative and qualitative strategies in our data collection and analysis. Our…
The Department of Urology at UCI has the world’s most prominent group of experienced physicians who are specialized in minimally invasive procedures and management of prostate and kidney cancer. As internationally renowned leaders in comprehensive treatment techniques allows the patients to have …
Welcome to the UC Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND). We are the University’s center for aging and dementia research, with our faculty seeking to understand the causes leading to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia…
Dr. Timberlake’s research focuses on epidemiology, marketing, and policy pertaining to tobacco, cannabis, and other substances. Additional research areas address tobacco harm reduction (e.g., snus, e-cigarettes), co-use of cannabis and tobacco (e.g., blunts), regulation of tobacco products …
Our lab investigates how to protect the cortex from ischemic stroke. We induce stroke through permanent occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) and employ various methods to image blood flow and neuronal activity.
SEARCH comprises graduate and undergraduate Public Health students who are committed to bettering the health and well-being of the UCI campus and it’s surrounding neighboring communities through public health research and community health initiatives. Our lab provides a hands-on public health res…
Dr. Vasylyeva research focuses on molecular and socio-behavioral epidemiology, with a particular focus on HIV epidemics in migrant and forcibly displaced populations. Vasylyeva Lab’s mission is to develop a framework for rapid epidemiological investigations in forced migrant populations to …
How chronic stress “gets under the skin” – the physiological response to stressful situations that exacerbate health conditions like hypertension – among maternal-infant dyads is known and yet, health disparities leading to maternal mortality, and preterm birth persist. The Reproductive Biology &…
Dr. Alein Haro-Ramos is a population health scientist and health policy researcher, and much of her work examines how race, ethnicity, and citizenship intersect to shape health across the life course. She focuses on structural determinants of health inequities among racialized and low-income comm…
