Assistant Professor, Health, Society, and Behavior
Public Health

health disparities, health inequities, structural racism, race, ethnicity, social determinants of health, neighborhoods, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, immigrant health, quantitative methods

Brittany Morey Faculty Website

UC Riverside Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017-2019

Dr. Morey’s research focuses on how structural racism shapes racial and ethnic health inequities. Much of this work focuses on how neighborhood social and physical environments contribute to health disparities, especially for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Her work also studies how U.S. immigration policies and anti-immigrant sentiments contribute to health disparities among broad populations of color. Overall, the goal of her research is to understand how society creates health inequities along the lines of race, ethnicity, nativity, and immigration status. With this understanding, we can create better policies and programs to address and undo the patterns of poor health we see today.

2021-2023 National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program Award. National Institutes of Health.

2020-2021 UCI Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research (mentor of undergraduate recipient Stephanie Iraheta, Program in Public Health Honors Thesis)

2019-2020 UCI ADVANCE Career Development Award

2017 Fielding School of Public Health Dean’s Outstanding Student Award

2017 Community Health Sciences Best Research Project Award

2015-2016 Don T. Nakanishi Award for Outstanding Engaged Scholarship in Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies at UCLA

2015-2016 UCLA Community Health Sciences Graduate Student Researcher Opportunity Award

Escobedo AL, Morey BN, Sabado-Liwag MD, Ponce N. (2022). Lost on the Frontline, and Lost in the Data: COVID-19 Deaths among Filipinx Healthcare Workers in the United States. Frontiers in Public Health. 10:958530. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.958530

Morey BN, Ryu S*, Shi Y, Redline S, Kawachi I, Lee S. (2022). Associations between Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Chinese and Korean Americans. Sleep Epidemiology. 2. 1000037. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleepe.2022.100037

Subica AM, Guerrero EG, Martin TKK, Okamoto SK, Aitaoto N, Moss HG, Morey BN, Wu L-T. (2022). Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use, Mental Health, and Treatment Need during COVID-19. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13522

Bacong AM*, Hing AK*, Morey BN, Crespi CM, Lee N, Kabamalan MM, de Castro AB, Gee GC. (2022). Health Selection on Self-Rated Health and the Healthy Migrant Effect: Baseline and 1-Year Results from the Health of Philippine Emigrants Study. PLOS Global Public Health. 2(7):e0000324. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000324

Morey BN, Ryu S*, Shi Y, Park H**, Lee S. (2022). Acculturation and Cardiometabolic Abnormalities among Chinese and Korean Americans. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-022-01347-x

Gee GC, Morey BN, Bacong AM*, Doan T*, Penaia CS*. (2022). Considerations of Racism and Data Equity among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the Context of COVID-19. Current Epidemiology Reports. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-022-00283-y

Morey BN, Valencia C*, Lee S. (2022). Correlates of Undiagnosed Hypertension among Chinese and Korean American Immigrants. Journal of Community Health. 47:425-436. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-022-01069-5

Morey BN. (2022). A Measure of Hope: New Questions for Rebuilding Post-Pandemic. American Journal of Public Health. 112(3):345-347. doi: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306668

Morey BN, Garcia SJ, Nieri T, Bruckner TA, Link BG. (2021). Symbolic disempowerment and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election: Mental health responses among Latinx and white populations. Social Science & Medicine. 289: 114417. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114417

Morey BN, Chang RC*, Tulua A, Penaia C*, Thomas K*, Tran VD*, Pierson N*, Greer JC*, Bydalek MJ**, Ponce N. (2021). No Equity without Data Equity: Data Reporting Gaps for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders as a form of Structural Racism. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 9517177. doi: 10.1215/03616878-9517177

Lee S, Ryu S, Lee G, Kawachi I, Morey BN, Slopen N. (2021). The Association of Acculturative Stress with Sleep Disturbance and Sleep Duration among Asian Americans. Sleep. 45(4):1-12. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab298

Morey BN, Chang RC, Tulua A, Penaia C, Thomas K, Tran VD, Pierson N, Greer JC, Bydalek MJ, Ponce N. (Accepted). No Equity without Data Equity: Data Reporting Gaps for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders as a form of Structural Racism. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

Aoki RLF, Uong SP, Gomez SL, Alexeeff S, Caan B, Kushi LH, Torres J, Guan A, Canchola AJ, Morey BN, Lin K, Kroenke CH. (2021). Individual- and Neighborhood-Socioeconomic Status and Risk of Aggressive Breast Cancer Subtypes in a Pooled Cohort of Women from Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Cancer. 0:1-11. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33861

Penaia CS, Morey BN, Thomas K, Chang RC, Tran VD, Pierson N, Greer J, Ponce NA. (2021). Disparities in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander COVID-19 Mortality: A Community-Driven Data Response. American Journal of Public Health. 111(S2): S49-S52. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306370

Morey BN, Valencia C*, Park H, Lee S. (2021). The Central Role of Social Support in the Health of Chinese and Korean Immigrants. Social Science and Medicine. 284. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114229

Morey BN, Valencia C*, Lee S. (2021). The Influence of Asian Subgroup and Acculturation on Colorectal Cancer Knowledge and Attitudes among Chinese and Korean Americans. Journal of Cancer Education. doi: 10.1007/s13187-021-02042-x

Morey BN, Gee GC, Wang MC, von Ehrenstein O, Shariff-Marco S, Canchola AJ, Yang J, Lee SS-J, Bautista R, Tseng W, Chang P, Gomez SL. (2021). Neighborhood Contexts and Breast Cancer among Asian American Women. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. doi: 10.1007/s10903-021-01196-6

Morey BN, Tulua A, Tanjasiri SP, Subica AM, Kaholokula JK, Penaia C, Thomas K, Chang RC, Tran VD, Ponce N, Ong P, Ong E. (2020). Structural Racism and its Effects on Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders in the U.S.: Issues of Health Equity, Census Undercounting, and Voter Disenfranchisement. AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community. 17(1-2).

Ah Soon N, Akee R, Kagawa-Singer M, Morey BN, Ong E, Ong P, Ponce N, Samoa R, Tanjasiri SP. (2020). Counting Race and Ethnicity for Small Populations during the COVID-19 Pandemic. AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community. 17(1-2).

Morey BN, Bacong AM, Hing A, de Castro AB, Gee GC. (2020). Heterogeneity in Migrant Health Selection: The Role of Immigrant Visas. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 61(3): 359-376. doi: 10.1177/0022146520942896

Ðoàn LN, Bacong AM, Ma KPK, Morey BN. (2020). “Epidemiologists Count”: The Role of Diversity and Inclusion in the Field of Epidemiology. American Journal of Epidemiology. 189(10): 1033-1036. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaa108

Morey BN, Gee GC, Shariff-Marco S, Yang J, Allen L, Gomez SL. (2020). Ethnic Enclaves, Discrimination, and Stress among Asian American Women: Differences by Nativity and Time in the U.S. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 26(4): 460-471. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000322

Morey BN, Gee GC, von Ehrenstein OS, Shariff-Marco S, Canchola AJ, Yang J, Allen L, Lee SS-J, Bautista R, La Chica T, Tseng W, Chang P, Gomez SL. (2019). Higher Breast Cancer Risk Among Immigrant Asian American Women Than Among US-Born Asian American Women. Preventing Chronic Disease.16(20):180221. doi: 10.5888/pcd16.180221

Morey BN. (2018). Mechanisms by Which Anti-Immigrant Stigma Exacerbates Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities. American Journal of Public Health. 108(4): 460-463. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304266

Morey BN, Gee GC, Muennig P, Hatzenbuehler ML. (2018). Community-Level Prejudice and Mortality among Immigrant Groups. Social Science and Medicine. 199: 56-66. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.020

Morey BN, Gee GC, Shariff-Marco S, Le GM, Canchola AJ, Yang J, Allen L, Lee S, Bautista R, Quema La Chica T, Tseng W, Chang P, Gomez SL. (2018). Nativity Differences in Stress among Asian and Pacific Islander Women. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice. 11(1): 28-44. Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/vol11/iss1/3

Alcalá HE, Sharif MZ, Morey BN. (2017). Misplaced Trust: Racial Differences in Use of Tobacco Products and Trust in Sources of Tobacco Health Information. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 19(10):1199-1208. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntx080

Gee GC, Morey BN, Walsemann K, Ro A, Takeuchi D. (2016). Citizenship as Privilege and Social Identity: Implications for Psychological Distress. American Behavioral Scientist. 60(5-6):680-704. doi: 10.1177/0002764216632834

Gee GC, de Castro AB, Wang MC, Crespi CM, Morey BN, Fujishiro K. (2015). Feasibility of Conducting a Longitudinal, Transnational Study of Filipino Migrants to the United States: A Dual-Cohort Design. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 26(2):488-504. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2015.0045

Morey BN. (2014). Environmental Justice for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in Los Angeles. Environmental Justice. 7(1):9-17. doi: 10.1089/env.2014.0003

BOOK CHAPTER:
Gee GC, Sangalang C, Morey BN, Hing A. (2019). The Global and Historical Nature of Racism and Health Among Asian Americans. In CL Ford, DM Griffith, MA Bruce, K Gilbert (Eds.), Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association.

Co-Investigator (PI: Sunmin Lee). Factors Associated with Helicobacter Pylori Screening and Treatment among High-Risk Asians in Orange County: Mixed-Methods Research to Examine Stomach Cancer Disparity. Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (Pilot Study Award). 2020-2021.

Principal Investigator. Neighborhood Risk and Resilience for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Respiratory Health Disparities. UCI Institute for Clinical & Translational Science (Pilot Study Award). 2020-2021.

Co-Investigator (PI: Sunmin Lee). Culturally Adapted Multilevel Decision Support Navigation Trail to Reduce Colorectal Cancer Disparity among At-Risk Asian American Primary Care Patients. National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (7R01MD012778-04). 2020-2022.

Co-Investigator (PI: Candyce Kroenke). Social Networks and Disparities in Health Behaviors and Breast Cancer Outcomes in Immigrant Women. National Cancer Institute (5R01CA230440-02). 2019-2024.

Consultant (Multiple PIs: Scarlett Lin Gomez, Lawrence Kushi, Song Yao). Insights from Asian Populations into Disparities in Breast Cancer Prognosis and Outcomes. National Cancer Institute (1R01CA241125-01A1). 2020-2025.

Co-Investigator (PI: Sunmin Lee). Sleep and Health Disparities among Asian Americans: Roles of Stressors and Protective Factors. National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (1R01MD015186). 2021-2026.

Technical Advisor (Multiple PIs: Daisy Perez, Sora Tanjasiri, John Billimek). Health Equity and Literacy in Orange County Initiative. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. 2021-2023.

Faculty Advisor (PI: Connie Valencia). Environmental Justice Community Engaged Efforts Among Latino Residents in Boyle Heights. UCI Institute for Clinical & Translational Science (Campus-Community Research Incubator Grant). 2021-2022.

Awardee. National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program Award. National Institutes of Health. 2021-2023.

Consultant (PI: Ninez Ponce). Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders Addressing Health Equity and Data. Office of Minority Health, Assessing Social Determinants of Health Data through Local Data Intermediaries Initiative. 2021-2022.

UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

UCI Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy

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Last updated
09/02/2022