2019-2020 Graduate Student Training Grants Recipients
In November 2019, the UC Network on Child Health, Poverty and
Public Policy requested proposals from graduate students for its
2019-2020 Small Grants Competition. The network seeks to fund
research that will expand our understanding of the causes and
consequences of child health disparities, and the effectiveness
of related interventions. The goal of this program is to
fund proposals that display sound research design and have the
potential for high impact. Learn more about the selected
students below.
Victoria Barone is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of
Economics at UCLA. Her research interests are labor and health
economics. Her research is primarily concerned with the short and
long run effects of child maltreatment; what policies can be put
in place to improve reporting and, in turn, stop its negative
effects on children.
Josefina Flores Morales is a current doctoral student in the
department of sociology at UCLA. In 2016, Josefina earned a B.A.
in psychology with a public health minor from UCLA. Josefina’s
research is about how immigration influences status shapes social
inequality in the United States. Josefina is in the inaugural
cohort of the Health Policy Research Scholars program, supported
by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and is excited to continue
to work on policy-relevant issues with a focus on the impact of
immigration status across the life course.
Lisa Johnson is a doctoral student in the Developmental
Psychology department at UC Davis. She has earned her B.A. in
psychology from Temple University, where her thesis focused on
the interaction between positive affect and emotional clarity in
predicting positive life events during adolescence.
Joakim (Jo) Weill is a 4th year PhD candidate in the
Agricultural and Resource Economics department at UC Davis. His
research leverages microeconomic tools and causal inference in
the fields of environmental and public economics to study (i) how
environmental changes impact the most vulnerable populations, and
(ii) the distributional impacts of public policies that aim to
increase environmental resilience. Prior to his doctoral studies,
Jo worked as a consultant at the World Bank’s Environment and
Natural Resources division.
