Sara Perez

Ph.D. Student - Social and Behavioral w88 live casino
Sara Perez

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 w88 live casino health. Sara’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 w88 live casino Health, specializing in Social and Behavioral Health from the University of Nevada, Reno
  • B.S. in Community Health Sciences, specializing in w88 live casino Health, and minor in Biology from the University of Nevada, Reno

Faculty mentor

w88 live casino and teaching interests

  • w88 live casino policy, commercial determinants of w88 live casino, structural violence, underemployment, involuntary part-time work, workers’ w88 live casino and economics.

Awards

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

Selected publications