Isabel Almeida
  • May 27, 2025

  • Honor recognizes the Chicano/Latino studies assistant professor for research accomplishments

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Isabel F. Almeida, UC Irvine Chicano/Latino studies assistant professor and director of the Latina Perinatal Health Lab, has been named the 2025 recipient of the Faculty Academic Achievement Award from the Dynamic Womxn Program at UCI. The honor annually recognizes a UC Irvine faculty member who has contributed academic research that advances knowledge, narratives and/or pedagogy that elevate womxn’s and Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color (BIWOC) issues in their field, major, or community.

Almeida specializes in research on biological, psychological and cultural factors that influence women’s reproductive health, particularly among Latinas living in the U.S. Her work is grounded in understanding how cultural factors influence prenatal emotional health, and the biological pathways linking emotional health to birth outcomes. Supported by the National Institutes of Mental Health, her findings have been published in Psychoneuroendocrinology, Early Human Development, the Journal of Women’s Health, and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, among others.

Almeida earned her bachelor’s in psychology at UC Riverside and her Ph.D. in health psychology at UCLA. She spent one year at UC Irvine as a Chancellor’s Advance Postdoctoral Fellow before joining the faculty in the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies in 2021.

She received her award at the Dynamic Womxn Program Award Ceremony on May 22, hosted by the UCI Womxn’s Center for Success.

 

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