Lab Members
PhD Student: Esmeralda (Esme) Ramirez, MA
Esme Ramirez (she/her/hers) is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Prevention Research Lab. Her research interests include the intersections of social media and mental health, substance use and abuse, intimate partner violence (IPV), and health disparities amongst marginalized populations. Previously, she was a Research Project Director at the University of Southern California, where she worked on a longitudinal study tracking substance use and IPV in a cohort of low-income women in San Antonio (1 R01 DA039269), as well as a binational project tracking transitory migration between the Los Angeles and Mexico City to build a foundation for developing health policy interventions for migrants (1 R01 MD013628-01). She received her MA in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and her thesis focused on the associations between media use and social mobility trajectories among Latino families in Austin.