Geography graduate student Daniel Ervin recently received a UC Global Health Institute Student Fellowship Award for $2600 to assist him in his dissertation research, which concerns dietary change among Latino immigrants. The UCGHI is a University of California initiative designed to promote transdisciplinary global health projects.
Daniel and his adviser, David López-Carr, the Director of the Human-Environment Dynamics Lab, also received a research award of $40,000 from the Programa de Investigacíon en Migracion y Salud (PIMSA) – a program devoted to promoting research on migration and health in the U.S. and Mexico. This funding source is a part of the Health Initiative of the Americas program at Berkeley. To quote Daniel, “The project is a bi-national collaboration between David Lopéz-Carr, myself, and Dr. Germán Vega Briones from the Departamento de Estudios de Población in El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (a Mexican research university and think tank) to study how migrant’s health and diet changes through the migration process. We will study both Latino migrants to the United States, as well as rural to urban migrants in Mexico.”
