Professor A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH

A. Susana Ramírez is an expert in media, inequality and dietary health, and Latinx culture. Her program of research aims to advance the science of communication to improve population health. One line of research examines the nature of the public information environment (i.e., news, advertising, social media, misinformation), how people make sense of it, and how that affects health. Another line of research considers the design of communication strategies to improve their reach and effectiveness among Latinx populations. Her research has been published in top interdisciplinary journals, and has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute for Minority Health & Health Disparities, the National Institute on Aging, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and BuoyHealth. She was awarded the 2017 Early Career Award from the American Public Health Association.

Dr. Ramírez has appeared on regional and national news including NPR, ABC News, Univisión, and the Huffington Post.

Dr. Ramírez is currently Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California in Merced. During the 2019-20 academic year, she is a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City, where she is conducting ethnographic research to better understand Mexican and Mexican-American culture and structural factors that contribute to health outcomes. Dr. Ramírez earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Public Health from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Santa Clara University.

Prof. Ramírez tweets @ASusanaRamirez