Lucrecia Mena-Meléndez
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Post Doctoral Fellow
Open Research and Contributor Identifier
Department
Applied Health Science
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2021
University of California, Los Angeles, M.A. in Sociology, 2016
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, M.A. in Development Studies, 2014
Elmira College, B.A. in International Studies, Political Science, and Anthropology & Sociology, 2012
Background
- Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, Department of Public Health and Department of Human Development and Family Studies, 2021-2022
- Teaching Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Sociology, 2019-2020
- Teaching Associate, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Sociology, 2017-2018
- Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Sociology, 2015-2017
Scholarly Interest
Sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, immigrant health, fertility, social demography, social inequalities, race and ethnicity, rural-urban analyses, cross-national analyses, families, Latinx communities, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, spatial analysis, Latin America and the Caribbean, United States
Selected Publications
Articles
Mena-Meléndez, Lucrecia. 2022. "Rural—Urban Differences in Unintended Pregnancies, Contraceptive Nonuse, and Terminated Pregnancies in Latin America and the Caribbean." Women's Reproductive Health 9(2). doi: 10.1080/23293691.2021.2016135
Mena-Meléndez, Lucrecia. 2020. "Ethnoracial child health inequalities in Latin America: Multilevel evidence from Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru." SSM - Population Health 12:100673. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100673