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Julia Pangalangan DrPH(c), MS

Senior Professional Research Assistant III, Teaching Assistant
  • Department of Community & Behavioral Health
  • Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center

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

Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center (RMPRC)

Colorado School of Public Health

CU Anschutz

Fitzsimons Building

13001 East 17th Place

3rd Floor East

Mail Stop B119

Aurora, CO 80045


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