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The Health Impacts of Immigration Policy
Presented by the NYU Migration Network. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
Held monthly over the semester, these public conversations bring together scholars, artists, and practitioners for cross-disciplinary exchanges to develop and refine understandings of migration and mobility, its histories, and its political stakes. With migration so sensationalized by much of the media, these conversations are a rare opportunity to invite the public to engage with questions of migration and mobility in a nuanced, thoughtful, and analytical manner.
This conversation on “The Health Impacts of Immigration Policy” will feature Maria Elena de Trinidad Young (UCLA) and Laura Wherry (NYU).
NYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration is required.
Accessibility note: If you have any access needs, please email migration-network@nyu.edu.
Maria Elena de Trinidad Young, PhD, MPH, is an affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an assistant professor at UC Merced. Young focuses on the impact of the US immigration system on the health of immigrant populations. Her research examines the relationship between health inequities and factors such as citizenship and legal status and state and local policies. Her current research seeks to understand the various structural, institutional, and individual mechanisms that link policy with health outcomes.
Young was formerly the project director of the NIH-funded Research on Immigrant Health and State Policy (RIGHTS) Study which seeks to understand the experiences of Latino and Asian immigrants in California in the areas of health care, social services, employment, education, and law enforcement and how these experiences have had an impact on their health and access to health care. Young was also the Chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow at UC Merced where she lead a study to examine how media coverage of immigration policy may influence immigrant well-being.
Laura Wherry is an associate professor at NYU Wagner and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Economics of Health program. During the 2024-25 academic year, she served as the senior economist for health care on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Her research focuses on the role of public programs and policies on the health and economic well-being of individuals in the US. She has a particular interest in policies that affect access to health care for women and children in lower income families.
Image: U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations following the implementation of Title 42 USC 265 at the northern and southern land borders, March 22, 2020, photograph by Jerry Glaser. Dedicated to the Public Domain via CC0 1.0
