Sara Perez, MPH

Summary

Sara’s research will focus on contributing to evidence-based, equitable policy to hold industries and employers accountable for offering stable work arrangements, livable wages and benefits to the workforce. She aims to use an interdisciplinary approach encompassing economics, social justice and public health. Sara&w88 online casinorsquo;s work strives to reshape labor policy to redistribute power equitably among employers and employees, dismantle problematic systems and construct new ones with health equity at their core (funded by the RWJF through the Health Policy Research Scholars Program). Sara also has research experience in tobacco control, particularly examining tobacco industry interference and health advocacy in low-and-middle-income countries (funded by Nevada DRIVE).

Education

• 2028 (Anticipated) Ph.D. in Public Health, specializing in Social and Behavioral Health from the University of Nevada, Reno
• B.S. in Community Health Sciences, specializing in Public Health, and minor in Biology from the University of Nevada, Reno

Faculty mentor

• Eric Crosbie

Research and teaching interests

• Health policy, commercial w88 casinodeterminants of health, structural violence, underemployment, involuntary part-time work, workers’ health and economics.

Awards

• Health Policy Research Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Baltimore, MY (2024-2028) [Home Institution Mentor, Dr. Sarah Friedman]
• Nevada DRIVE Scholar, University of Nevada, Reno (2023-2025) [Faculty Mentor, Dr. Eric Crosbie]
• Student Poster Presenter, Delta Omega Student Poster Session, Academic Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association’s Public Health Exposition, Atlanta, GA (2023)
• Graduate Student Association Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award, University of Nevada, Reno (2023)
• Graduate Student Association Outstanding Domestic Student Award, University of Nevada, Reno (2023)
• Graduate Dean’s Merit Scholar, University of Nevada, Reno (2023)
• Senior Scholar in the School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno (2022)
• Nevada Women’s w88 online casinoFund Scholar, NV (2021-2025)
• Reno Rodeo Foundation Scholar, NV (2020-2025)

Selected publications

• Crosbie, E.*, Perez, S.**, Camaerna, A. R., Vivanco, V. O., Severini, G., Gutkowski, P., Sosa, P., & Sebrie, E. (2024). The perfect storm: Applying the multiple streams framework to understand the adoption of a WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control-based policy in Mexico. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 21(7).
• Crosbie, E.*, Perez, S.**, Hartman, J., Sheretz, L., & Klepeis, N. E. (2024). Measuring air quality in smoking and nonsmoking areas of Nevada casinos (Reno/Sparks): Potential exposure of minors to secondhand smoke. Environmental Health and Toxicology, 39. 
• Crosbie, E.*, Gutkowski, P., Severini, G., Pizarro, M. E., Perez, S.**, Albuquerque de Figueierdo, B., Rodríguez, D., & Sebrie, E. (2022). Tobacco Advertising, Promotion and Sponsorship in the Americas: Lessons from Uruguay and Argentina. Pan American Journal of Public Health, 46. 
• Crosbie, E.*, Erinoso, O.**, Perez, S.**, Severini, G., Sebrie, E. (2022). Moving in the right direction: Tobacco packaging and labelling in the Americas. Pan American Journal of Public Health, 46.
• Crosbie, E.*, Perez, S.**, Cortez, P., Garron Monje, A. K., Machin, N., Lopez, G., & Sebrie, E. (2022). Tobaccocontrol in Bolivia: Civil society efforts in securing a comprehensive law. Nicotine & Tobacco.