Informed: Living Well

Melanie Sabado-Liwag, PhD, MPH

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Dr. Melanie Sabado-Liwag (she/her/siya) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at California State University-Los Angeles. She received a PhD in Health Promotion Sciences at the School of Community & Global Health at Claremont Graduate University, MPH at California State University-Fullerton, and postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. With 20 years of experience working in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, her research in minority health and health disparities aims to understand psychosocial, environmental, and cultural determinants related to adverse health and social outcomes across the life course. Dr. Sabado-Liwag is a mixed-methods scholar who uses community-based participatory research methods (CBPR) and advanced epidemiologic analyses to identify how these associations are related to risky behaviors, chronic disease, and mental health. She is currently the multiple-Principal Investigator for NIH/NIMHD RADx-UP SEA US, HEAR US study, RCMAR/FHCRC Principal Investigator for The FILLED project.