Irene Yen, PhD, MPH
Professor
Social Behavioral Sciences
School of Nursing

Interests

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• youth
• Social determinants
• city and transportation planning
• aging
• children
• Interdisciplinary research collaboration
• obesity
• mentoring junior faculty or trainees
• older adults policy advocacy
• food environment
• life course
• survey tool development
• epidemiology

Grants and Projects

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• Educational trajectories & health: when people finish school and how it matters, NIH, 2017-2021
• Measuring neighborhood: Key aspects for multiethnic older adults'health status, NIH, 2006-2012

Publications (53)

Top publication keywords:
Health StatusSocioeconomic FactorsSocial ClassResidence CharacteristicsHealth SurveysHealth Status DisparitiesPatient ParticipationEmigrants and ImmigrantsSocial ChangeArchitectural AccessibilityEducational StatusSafety-net ProvidersFoster Home CareUrban Health ServicesBinge Drinking

• Mixed Methods for Research on Support Networks of People Experiencing Chronic Illness and Social Marginalization.
  Qualitative health research 2024 Nápoles TM, Ekl EA, Nicklas J, Gómez-Pathak L, Yen IH, Carrillo D, de Leon K, Burke NJ, Perry BL, Shim JK
• Reproducibility and implementation of a rapid, community-based COVID-19 "test and respond" model in low-income, majority-Latino communities in Northern California.
  PloS one 2022 Chamie G, Prado P, Oviedo Y, Vizcaíno T, Arechiga C, Marson K, Carrera O, Alvarado MJ, Corchado CG, Gomez M, Mochel M, de Leon I, Garibay KK, Durazo A, Young MT, Yen IH, Sauceda J, Rojas S, DeRisi J, …
• Understanding the benefits of different types and timing of education for mental health: A sequence analysis approach.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2021 Vable AM, Duarte CDP, Wannier SR, Chan-Golston AM, Cohen AK, Glymour MM, Ream RK, Yen IH
• Social Literacy: Nurses' Contribution Toward the Co-Production of Self-Management.
  Global qualitative nursing research 2021 Dubbin L, Burke N, Fleming M, Thompson-Lastad A, Napoles TM, Yen I, Shim JK
• Housing Stability and Hepatitis C Infection for Young Adults Who Inject Drugs: Examining the Relationship of Consistent and Intermittent Housing Status on HCV Infection Risk.
  Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2020 Morris MD, Yen IH, Shiboski S, Evans JL, Page K

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• Racial Discrimination in the Life Course of Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness: Results from the HOPE HOME Study.
  Journal of social distress and the homeless 2019 Paul DW, Knight KR, Olsen P, Weeks J, Yen IH, Kushel MB
• Long-term Mortality in Pediatric Firearm Assault Survivors: A Multicenter, Retrospective, Comparative Cohort Study.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2018 Shaahinfar A, Yen IH, Alter HJ, Gildengorin G, Pan SJ, Betts JM, Fahimi J
• Caring for "Super-utilizers": Neoliberal Social Assistance in the Safety-net.
  Medical anthropology quarterly 2018 Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen I, Van Natta M, Hanssmann C, Burke NJ
• Stratified citizenship, stratified health: Examining latinx legal status in the U.S. healthcare safety net.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2018 Van Natta M, Burke NJ, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Hanssmann CL, Rasidjan MP, Shim JK
• Like a Fish out of Water: Managing Chronic Pain in the Urban Safety Net.
  Journal of health and social behavior 2018 Rubin S, Burke N, Van Natta M, Yen I, Shim JK
• Do the health benefits of education vary by sociodemographic subgroup? Differential returns to education and implications for health inequities.
  Annals of epidemiology 2018 Vable AM, Cohen AK, Leonard SA, Glymour MM, Duarte CDP, Yen IH
• Health in changing neighborhoods: A study of the relationship between gentrification and self-rated health in the state of California.
  Health & place 2018 Izenberg JM, Mujahid MS, Yen IH
• Gentrification and binge drinking in California neighborhoods: It matters how long you've lived there.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2018 Izenberg JM, Mujahid MS, Yen IH
• Complex care and contradictions of choice in the safety net.
  Sociology of health & illness 2018 Van Natta M, Burke NJ, Yen IH, Rubin S, Fleming MD, Thompson-Lastad A, Shim JK
• Assessing Patient Activation among High-Need, High-Cost Patients in Urban Safety Net Care Settings.
  Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2017 Napoles TM, Burke NJ, Shim JK, Davis E, Moskowitz D, Yen IH
• Response to commentary, "Trauma and the structuring of complex care: Back to the settlements?" by Elizabeth Bowen.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 Thompson-Lastad A, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Rubin S, Shim JK, Burke NJ
• Defining trauma in complex care management: Safety-net providers' perspectives on structural vulnerability and time.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 Thompson-Lastad A, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Rubin S, Shim JK, Burke NJ
• Patient engagement at the margins: Health care providers' assessments of engagement and the structural determinants of health in the safety-net.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen IH, Thompson-Lastad A, Rubin S, Van Natta M, Burke NJ
• San Francisco childcare centers' preparedness in the prevention and management of asthma among preschool-aged children.
  The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma 2016 Young CA, Stookey J, Patel AI, Chan C, Evans J, Cohn K, Agana L, Yen IH, Fernandez A, Cabana MD
• Long-term mortality of patients surviving firearm violence.
  Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention 2015 Fahimi J, Larimer E, Hamud-Ahmed W, Anderson E, Schnorr CD, Yen I, Alter HJ
• Development of a Tool to Evaluate Asthma Preparedness and Management in Child-Care Centers.
  Pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology 2015 Young CA, Chan C, Stookey J, Patel AI, Evans J, Cohn K, Agana L, Yen IH, Fernandez A, Cabana MD
• Neighborhood influences on girls' obesity risk across the transition to adolescence.
  Pediatrics 2014 Hoyt LT, Kushi LH, Leung CW, Nickleach DC, Adler N, Laraia BA, Hiatt RA, Yen IH
• California Breast Cancer Prevention Initiatives: Setting a research agenda for prevention.
  Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) 2014 Sutton P, Kavanaugh-Lynch MH, Plumb M, Yen IH, Sarantis H, Thomsen CL, Campleman S, Galpern E, Dickenson C, Woodruff TJ
• Neighborhood Characteristics and ADHD: Results of a National Study.
  Journal of attention disorders 2014 Razani N, Hilton JF, Halpern-Felsher BL, Okumura MJ, Morrell HE, Yen IH
• How design of places promotes or inhibits mobility of older adults: realist synthesis of 20 years of research.
  Journal of aging and health 2014 Yen IH, Fandel Flood J, Thompson H, Anderson LA, Wong G
• Impact of neighborhood and individual socioeconomic status on survival after breast cancer varies by race/ethnicity: the Neighborhood and Breast Cancer Study.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2014 Shariff-Marco S, Yang J, John EM, Sangaramoorthy M, Hertz A, Koo J, Nelson DO, Schupp CW, Shema SJ, Cockburn M, Satariano WA, Yen IH, Ponce NA, Winkleby M, Keegan TH, Gomez SL
• A community cohort study about childhood social and economic circumstances: racial/ethnic differences and associations with educational attainment and health of older adults.
  BMJ open 2013 Yen IH, Gregorich S, Cohen AK, Stewart A
• A pilot study using global positioning systems (GPS) devices and surveys to ascertain older adults' travel patterns.
  Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2013 Yen IH, Leung CW, Lan M, Sarrafzadeh M, Kayekjian KC, Duru OK
• Comparing Symptom Burden in Patients with Metastatic and Nonmetastatic Cancer.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2012 Kim Y, Yen IH, Rabow MW
• Using mobile fruit vendors to increase access to fresh fruit and vegetables for schoolchildren.
  Preventing chronic disease 2012 Tester JM, Yen IH, Laraia B
• Built environment and mobility of older adults: important policy and practice efforts.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2012 Yen IH, Anderson LA
• Older people and social connectedness: how place and activities keep people engaged.
  Journal of aging research 2012 Yen IH, Shim JK, Martinez AD, Barker JC
• Healthy food availability and participation in WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) in food stores around lower- and higher-income elementary schools.
  Public health nutrition 2010 Tester JM, Yen IH, Pallis LC, Laraia BA
• An analysis of public health policy and legal issues relevant to mobile food vending.
  American journal of public health 2010 Tester JM, Stevens SA, Yen IH, Laraia BL
• Functional recovery following musculoskeletal injury in hospital workers.
  Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) 2010 Gillen M, Cisternas MG, Yen IH, Swig L, Rugulies R, Frank J, Blanc PD
• Measuring the neighborhood environment: associations with young girls' energy intake and expenditure in a cross-sectional study.
  The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity 2010 Leung CW, Gregorich SE, Laraia BA, Kushi LH, Yen IH
• Childhood obesity and the built environment.
  Current opinion in pediatrics 2010 Galvez MP, Pearl M, Yen IH
• Mobile food vending and the after-school food environment.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2010 Tester JM, Yen IH, Laraia B
• Neighborhood environment in studies of health of older adults: a systematic review.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2009 Yen IH, Michael YL, Perdue L
• From homeless to hopeless and healthless?: the health impacts of housing challenges among former foster care youth transitioning to adulthood in California.
  Issues in comprehensive pediatric nursing 2009 Yen IH, Hammond WP, Kushel MB
• Older adults' perspectives on key domains of childhood social and economic experiences and opportunities: a first step to creating a multidimensional measure.
  Epidemiologic perspectives & innovations : EP+I 2007 Yen IH, Stewart AL, Scherzer T, Pérez-Stable EJ
• Women's perceptions of neighborhood resources and hazards related to diet, physical activity, and smoking: focus group results from economically distinct neighborhoods in a mid-sized U.S. city.
  American journal of health promotion : AJHP 2007 Yen IH, Scherzer T, Cubbin C, Gonzalez A, Winkleby MA
• Homelessness and health care access after emancipation: results from the Midwest Evaluation of Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth.
  Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 2007 Kushel MB, Yen IH, Gee L, Courtney ME
• Impact of perceived neighborhood problems on change in asthma-related health outcomes between baseline and follow-up.
  Health & place 2007 Yen IH, Yelin E, Katz P, Eisner MD, Blanc PD
• The association of socioeconomic status and psychosocial and physical workplace factors with musculoskeletal injury in hospital workers.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2007 Gillen M, Yen IH, Trupin L, Swig L, Rugulies R, Mullen K, Font A, Burian D, Ryan G, Janowitz I, Quinlan PA, Frank J, Blanc P
• Negative life events and quality of life in adults with asthma.
  Thorax 2006 Archea C, Yen IH, Chen H, Eisner MD, Katz PP, Masharani U, Yelin EH, Earnest G, Blanc PD
• Perceived neighborhood problems and quality of life, physical functioning, and depressive symptoms among adults with asthma.
  American journal of public health 2006 Yen IH, Yelin EH, Katz P, Eisner MD, Blanc PD
• Area-level socio-economic status and health status among adults with asthma and rhinitis.
  The European respiratory journal 2006 Blanc PD, Yen IH, Chen H, Katz PP, Earnest G, Balmes JR, Trupin L, Friedling N, Yelin EH, Eisner MD
• Historical perspective: S. Leonard Syme's influence on the development of social epidemiology and where we go from there.
  Epidemiologic perspectives & innovations : EP+I 2005 Yen IH
• Impact of the home indoor environment on adult asthma and rhinitis.
  Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2005 Blanc PD, Eisner MD, Katz PP, Yen IH, Archea C, Earnest G, Janson S, Masharani UB, Quinlan PJ, Hammond SK, Thorne PS, Balmes JR, Trupin L, Yelin EH
• Integrating qualitative research into occupational health: a case study among hospital workers.
  Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2005 Gordon DR, Ames GM, Yen IH, Gillen M, Aust B, Rugulies R, Frank JW, Blanc PD
• The psychosocial work environment and musculoskeletal disorders: design of a comprehensive interviewer-administered questionnaire.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2004 Rugulies R, Braff J, Frank JW, Aust B, Gillen M, Yen IH, Bhatia R, Ames G, Gordon DR, Janowitz I, Oman D, Jacobs BP, Blanc P
• Unbundling education: a critical discussion of what education confers and how it lowers risk for disease and death.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1999 Yen IH, Moss N