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Graduate Student
University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health
Catherine Cortez is a Master of Public Health student at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology. Her research interests include maternal & child health epidemiology, with a focus on adolescent mental health. Cortez is an alumnus of the Graduate Student Epidemiology Program (GSEP) 2021 Cohort, where she was matched with the Nagata Lab at University of California, San Francisco and conducted data analyses on screen time, physical activity, and mental health among US adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. She graduated from University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health.