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
Publications and Presentations
Publications:
- Priyanka, S., Pangalangan, J.M.L., Puma, J.E., Farewell, C.V. (2024) Relationship between chronic health conditions and occupational burnout in the early care and education workforce. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 66(6), e238–e244. https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000003102 [Role: 2nd author]
- Pangalangan, J. M. L., & Puma, J. E. (2024). Hispanic and non-Hispanic parents’ health behaviour predicts preschool children’s behaviour in low-income communities in the United States. Health Education Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969241269017 [Role: 1st author]
- Pangalangan, J.M.L., Puma, J.E., Tollefson, M., Frates, E. (2024). Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Lifestyle Medicine Health Behavior Scale. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, [Role: 1st author]
Presentations:
- Pangalangan, J., Maiurro, E., Puma, J., & Farewell, C. (April, 2024). The dissemination and implementation of a worker well-being program for Head Start staff. 2024 Research Day Symposium, University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO.
- Pangalangan, J., Maiurro, E., Puma, J., & Farewell, C. (June, 2024). Implementation of a worker well-being program in Head Start centers: Experience of leaders and staff. Colorado Pragmatic Research in Health Conference, University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.
- Pangalangan, J., Puma, J., & Farewell, C. (September, 2024). Well-being of the early childhood workforce in Colorado: Urban-rural differences. Public Health in the Rockies – Keystone, CO.