Dr. Melanie Sabado-Liwag is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Master of Public Health (MPH) program at California State University, Los Angeles. She was as postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and received her Ph.D. in health promotion sciences at the School of Community & Global Health at Claremont Graduate University and MPH at California State University, Fullerton. With 20 years of experience working in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, her research in minority health and health disparities aims to understand psychosocial, environmental, and biological determinants related to adverse health and social outcomes across the life course. Dr. Sabado-Liwag is a mixed-methods scholar who uses advanced epidemiologic analyses to identify how these associations are related to risky behaviors, chronic disease, and mental health. Other efforts include working alongside communities of color and marginalized groups to develop evidence-based, culturally-tailored projects and interventions through community-based participatory research methods and mobile health (mhealth) strategies. Dr. Sabado-Liwag is a first generation Filipina raised in Los Angeles (Tongva Land) and rooted by people of Ilocos Sur and the Bago tribe of the Cordilleras.