As a first generation Mexican-American in higher education, my research has been informed by my personal experiences and first hand experience with community members with diabetes. It is my goal to translate the lived experience to salient and culturally informed diabetes prevention and management programs.

• University Outstanding Master's Thesis Award Student Recipient - The University of Texas at El Paso (04/06/2025)
• University Faculty Marshal of Students for the College of Health Sciences - UTEP (05/09/2024)
• American Diabetes Association Young Investigators Abstract Award - American Diabetes Association (03/31/2021)
• NIH Jumpstart Program UTEP - National Institutes of Health (01/01/2020)
• National Research Mentoring Network STAR Mentee - National Research Mentoring Network STAR Mentee (01/10/2017)
• Community Engaged Scholarship Faculty Institute, Scholar - UTEP Center for Civic Engagement (09/30/2016)

• Ph D in Public Health, The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health (2008)
• MPH in Public Health, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston School of Public Health (2001)
• BS in Psychology, The University of Texas at El Paso (1997)

• Hispanic-Serving Institutions Contribution to the Training and Diversity of Public Health and Health Care Workforce. American Journal of Public Health 114 (2024), Jeannie B. Concha, Emre Umucu, Maria O. Duarte-Gardea, Azuri L. Gonzalez, Guillermina Solis, Amanda Loya, Laura E. O'Dell, Roy Mathew.
• Hispanic-Serving Institutions Contribution to the Training and Diversity of Public Health and Health Care Workforce. American Journal of Public Health 114 (2024), Jeannie B. Concha, Emre Umucu, Maria O. Duarte-Gardea, Azuri L. Gonzalez, Guillermina Solis, Amanda Loya, Laura E. O'Dell, Roy Mathew.
• Leveraging a genetically-informative study design to explore depression as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes: Rationale and participation characteristics of the Mood and Immune Regulation in Twins Study Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare: Special Issue Diabetes and Depression (2023), Briana Mezuk, Kristen Kelly, Erica Bennion, Jeannie B. Concha.
• Leveraging a genetically-informative study design to explore depression as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes: Rationale and participant characteristics of the Mood and Immune Regulation in Twins Study Front Clin Diabetes Healthcare (2023), Jeannie B. Concha.
• Unmanaged Diabetes and Elevated Blood Glucose Are Poor Prognostic Factors in the Severity and Recovery Time in Predominantly Hispanic Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients. Frontiers in endocrinology 13 (2022), Sudip Bajpeyi, A Mossayebi, H Kreit, S Cherukuri, R A. Mandania, Jeannie B. Concha, Hyejin Jung, Amy E. Wagler, A Gupte, A Deoker.

• New Directions for Advancing Latino Health Research Towards Equitable Systems Change : Hispanic-Serving Institutions Contribution to the Training and Diversity of Public Health and Health Care Workforce. American Public Health (2024), Volume Minneapolis, Jeannie B. Concha, Emre Umucu, Maria O. Duarte-Gardea, Azuri L. Gonzalez, Guillermina Solis, Amanda Loya, Laura E. O'Dell, Roy Mathew.
• Leveraging Indigenous Knowledge and Culture to Engage Hispanic/Latine Communities. (2024), Volume New Orleans, LA, Jeannie B. Concha.
• Meet the Authors: Advancing Hispanic/Latino Health Research Pa’Lante, (2024), Jeannie B. Concha.
• Don't Dr'Ed Sex Ed (2023), Volume Atlanta, GA, Sierra Galvan, Jeannie B. Concha, Jorge Puentes.
• The Diabetes Garage Improves Diabetes Distress and Psychological Well-being among Mexican-American Men (2023), Volume Houston TX, Jeannie B. Concha, Gregory S. Schober, Denise N. Chacon-Portillo, Terry Sanchez, Rosalba Ruiz Reyes de Holguin, Raquel L. Romero, Luis Villagomez, Paula Winkler, Ludivina Hernandez, Armando Lopez, Juana Escareno.

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Program. (06/05/2023 - 05/31/2028) National Institutes of Health
• Lone Star Prize (02/01/2022 - 03/31/2023) Texas Water Trade
• Strengthening State Systems to Improve Diabetes Management and Outcomes: Continuation and Innovative Phase. (01/01/2020 - 06/30/2020) Texas Department of State Health Services via Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
• 2019 Heal: Diabetes Assessment In The County Of El Paso, Tx (01/15/2020 - 04/14/2020) PASO DEL NORTE HEALTH FOUNDATION (FNDN)
• 2019 Heal: Diabetes Assessment In The County Of El Paso, Tx (01/15/2019 - 04/14/2020) PASO DEL NORTE HEALTH FOUNDATION (FNDN)