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Julia Pangalangan DrPH(c), MS
Senior Professional Research Assistant III, Teaching Assistant
Julia Pangalangan is a DrPH candidate in the Community and Behavioral Health department. Julia’s research interests include chronic disease prevention and management, lifestyle medicine program implementation, positive psychology, and dissemination and implementation (D&I) science. Her dissertation is a pilot hybrid effectiveness implementation study of the PAVING the Path to Wellness program, a lifestyle medicine-based health promotion program.
As a Senior Professional Research Assistant, she works on evaluation for the School Wellness program (PI: Dr. Jini Puma), a SNAP-Ed funded nutrition education program and the WELL study, a mental wellbeing program for early childhood education staff in low-resourced locations (PIs: Dr. Jini Puma and Charlotte Farewell).
Areas of Expertise
- Lifestyle medicine
- Health promotion
- Dissemination and implementation science
- Mental wellbeing
- Chronic disease prevention
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- DrPH, Community & Behavioral Health, University of Colorado Anschutz (in progress)
- MS, Community Health and Prevention Research, Stanford University, 2022
- BA, Honors Psychology, Miami University, 2019