Julia Lechuga completed her PhD in psychology in 2008 from the University of Texas at El Paso and her postdoctorate in 2010 at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is currently Associate Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso in the Department of Public Health Sciences.

• Outstanding performance for securing Extramural funding - The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (11/01/2020)

• NIH/NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow , Medical College of Wisconsin (2010)
• Ph D in General Psychology, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (2008)

• Culture and sexuality-related communication as sociocultural precursors of HPV vaccination among mother-daughter dyads of Mexican descent. Preventive medicine reports 19 (2020), Julia Lechuga, C Prieto, Holly J. Mata, R A. Belknap, I Varela.
• Documenting best practices for maintaining access to HIV prevention, care and treatment in an era of shifting immigration policy and discourse. PloS one 15 2 (2020), E A. Arnold, S M. Fuller, O Martinez, Julia Lechuga, W T. Steward.
• African-American parents' and daughters' beliefs about HPV infection and the HPV vaccine PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 36 2 (2019), Kayoll V. Galbraith-Gyan, Julia Lechuga, Coretta M. Jenerette, Mary H. Palmer, Angelo D. Moore, Jill B. Hamilton.
• HIV Testing and Mistaken Beliefs about Immigration Laws JOURNAL OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES 6 4 (2019), Carol L. Galletly, Julia Lechuga, Laura R. Glasman, Wayne DiFranceisco, Michelle R. Broaddus, Julia B. Dickson-Gomez, Timothy L. McAuliffe, Miriam Vega, Sara LeGrand, Carla A. Mena, Morgan L. Barlow, Montenegro, Judith, I.
• HPV vaccine acceptance among African-American mothers and their daughters: an inquiry grounded in culture ETHNICITY & HEALTH 24 3 (2019), Kayoll V. Galbraith-Gyan, Julia Lechuga, Coretta M. Jenerette, Mary H. Palmer, Angelo D. Moore, Jill B. Hamilton.
• Intervention Reach and Sexual Risk Reduction of a Multi-level, Community-Based HIV Prevention Intervention for Crack Users in San Salvador, El Salvador AIDS AND BEHAVIOR 23 5 (2019), Julia Dickson-Gomez, Sergey Tarima, Laura R. Glasman, Julia Lechuga, Gloria Bodnar, de Mendoza, Lorena Rivas.
• The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Immigration Law Concerns Scale (ILCS) for HIV Testing JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT AND MINORITY HEALTH 20 5 (2018), Julia Lechuga, Carol L. Galletly, Michelle R. Broaddus, Julia B. Dickson-Gomez, Laura R. Glasman, Timothy L. McAuliffe, Miriam Y. Vega, Sarah LeGrand, Carla A. Mena, Morgan L. Barlow, Erik Valera, Judith I. Montenegro.
• The experience of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) among Hispanic women in a U.S. border region Sex Reprod Healthcare 12 (2017), Mary Carolan-Olah, Maria O. Duarte-Gardea, Julia Lechuga.
• A systematic review of interventions for Hispanic women with or at risk of Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE 13 (2017), Mary Carolan-Olah, Maria O. Duarte-Gardea, Julia Lechuga.
• The experience of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) among Hispanic women in a US border region SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE 12 (2017), Mary Carolan-Olah, Maria O. Duarte-Gardea, Julia Lechuga, Silvia Salinas-Lopez.
• HPV Vaccine Awareness, Barriers, Intentions, and Uptake in Latina Women JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT AND MINORITY HEALTH 18 1 (2016), Julia Lechuga, Lina Vera-Cala, Ana Martinez-Donate.
• Parental acceptance and uptake of the HPV vaccine among African-Americans and Latinos in the United States: A literature review SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE 159 (2016), Kayoll V. Galbraith, Julia Lechuga, Coretta M. Jenerette, Angelo D. Moore, Mary H. Palmer, Jill B. Hamilton.
• Using Peer-Referral Chains with Incentives to Promote HIV Testing and Identify Undiagnosed HIV Infections Among Crack Users in San Salvador AIDS AND BEHAVIOR 20 6 (2016), Laura R. Glasman, Julia Dickson-Gomez, Julia Lechuga, Sergey Tarima, Gloria Bodnar, Rivas de Mendoza, Lorena.

• Immigration concerns and the utilization of healthcare including HIV prevention services (2020), Volume virtual, Julia Lechuga.
• HIV risk patterns among women who use drugs on the U.S.-Mexico border. A comparison by sex work status (2020), Volume Virtual, Julia Lechuga.
• The influence of victimization by law enforcement and drug selling traders on the social network characteristics of people who use drugs on the U.S.-Mexico border (2020), Volume Virtual, Julia Lechuga.

• Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California San Francisco (CAPS)
• Perceived Immigration Laws Impact on Hispanic Immigrants HIV Health Behavior
• Adaptation, Implementation, and Testing of Project Encuentro in the U.S-Mexico Border
• Adaptation, Implementation, and Testing of Project Encuentro in the U.S-Mexico Border