Yasmmyn Salinas
Assistant Professor Adjunct of EpidemiologyCards
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Assistant Professor Adjunct of Epidemiology
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Yasmmyn Salinas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology.
Dr. Salinas earned a Bachelor of Science with Distinction in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Yale College in 2010 and a Master of Public Health in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health in 2014. She earned her Ph.D. in Public Health (Chronic Disease Epidemiology) from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
Dr. Salinas’s research is focused on the intergenerational transmission of obesity and its comorbidities. To date, she has approached this issue from a genetics lens. Her current work searches for genetic variants that display pleiotropy for obesity-related metabolic disorders and examines the interactions between maternal genetic factors and early-life modifiable risk factors in relation to metabolic outcomes in children.
Dr. Salinas joined the YSPH faculty in 2019. She teaches two courses: Principles of Epidemiology II and Advanced Applied Analytic Methods in Epidemiology and Public Health.
Appointments
Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Assistant Professor AdjunctPrimary
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Research at a Glance
Yale Co-Authors
Andrew DeWan, PhD, MPH
Nicola Hawley, PhD
Publications
2024
Noncommunicable disease risk behaviors and protective factors among children in Samoa: Retrospective trend analysis of global school-based health surveys in 2011 and 2017
Choy C, Simi S, Soti-Ulberg C, Naseri T, Salinas Y, Hawley N. Noncommunicable disease risk behaviors and protective factors among children in Samoa: Retrospective trend analysis of global school-based health surveys in 2011 and 2017. PLOS Global Public Health 2024, 4: e0003315. PMID: 38861507, PMCID: PMC11166286, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003315.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGlobal School-based Student Health SurveyPrevalence of overweight/obesityNoncommunicable diseasesHealth SurveyNoncommunicable disease risk factorsMultistage stratified cluster sampling designNoncommunicable disease risk behavioursProtective factorsPrevalence of noncommunicable diseasesRisk behaviorsGlobal School-based Health SurveySchool-based Health SurveyPromote healthy behaviorsStudent Health SurveyPrevalence of obesityPublic health actionCluster sampling designStrengthening protective factorsReduce risk behaviorsRetrospective trend analysisPrevalence of riskSedentary behaviorSchool year 9School-aged childrenPhysical activity
2016
ZNF248 Is Associated with Elder-Onset Asthma in African Americans
Wang L, Salinas Y, DeWan A. ZNF248 Is Associated with Elder-Onset Asthma in African Americans. Journal Of Allergy And Clinical Immunology 2016, 137: ab104. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2015.12.467.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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News
- June 16, 2022
Teaching is a learning process for award-winning professor Yasmmyn Salinas
- May 02, 2022
Snapshots
- September 01, 2021
2021 Top Educators Named
- August 17, 2021
Using Epidemiology to Improve the World