“How do you truly get out of debt if everyone in your family is just constantly not talking about how to get out of debt?”
- Melanie Sabado-Liwag
Melanie Sabado-Liwag
Biography
Dr. Melanie Sabado-Liwag received her Ph.D. in health promotion sciences at the School of Community & Global Health at Claremont Graduate University. She received her M.P.H. with a concentration in health promotion and disease prevention at California State University, Fullerton. Prior to Cal State LA, Dr. Sabado-Liwag finished her postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. Her research in minority health and health disparities aims to understand psychosocial, environmental, and biological determinants related to adverse health and social outcomes across the life course. Dr. Sabado-Liwag is a mixed-methods scholar who uses advanced epidemiologic analyses to identify how these associations are related to risky behaviors, chronic disease, and mental health. Other research efforts include working alongside communities of color and marginalized groups to develop evidence-based, culturally-tailored projects and interventions through community-based participatory research methods and mobile health (mhealth) strategies.