Thi Tran

Project and Coding Manager
Institute for Health & Aging
[email protected]

Thi Tran manages the data analysis for Dr. Elena Portacolone’s various projects at UCSF. Prior to joining UCSF, she worked in the corporate realm focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility; traveling extensively to different countries and regions of the Americas to ensure workers in factories are given a safe place to work, compensated fairly, and given ethical treatment by management. Thi is passionate about human rights work, and an advocate of HIV/AIDS awareness, services, and youth education prevention in the Asian community.

Publications: 

Specific cultural traits of the precarity of older Latinos living alone with cognitive impairment in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Aging & mental health

Velez Ortiz D, Ransom N, Rivera E, Johnson JK, Keiser S, Tran T, Torres J, Portacolone E

Perceptions of the Role of Living Alone in Providing Services to Patients With Cognitive Impairment.

JAMA network open

Portacolone E, Nguyen TT, Bowers BJ, Johnson JK, Kotwal AA, Stone RI, Keiser S, Tran T, Rivera E, Martinez P, Yang Y, Torres JM, Covinsky KE

Understanding the concept of trust and other factors related to COVID-19 vaccine intentions among Black/African American older adults prior to vaccine development.

SSM. Qualitative research in health

Harris OO, Perry TE, Johnson JK, Lichtenberg P, Washington T, Kitt B, Shaw M, Keiser S, Tran T, Vest L, Maloof M, Portacolone E

Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine intention in Latino communities.

PloS one

Perez A, Johnson JK, Marquez DX, Keiser S, Martinez P, Guerrero J, Tran T, Portacolone E

Increasing engagement of Hispanics/Latinos in clinical trials on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)

Marquez DX, Perez A, Johnson JK, Jaldin M, Pinto J, Keiser S, Tran T, Martinez P, Guerrero J, Portacolone E

The Living Alone with Cognitive Impairment Project's Policy Advisory Group on Long-Term Services and Supports: Setting a Research Equity Agenda.

International journal of environmental research and public health

Portacolone E, Torres JM, Johnson JK, Benton D, Rapp T, Tran T, Martinez P, Graham C

The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lived Experience of Diverse Older Adults Living Alone With Cognitive Impairment.

The Gerontologist

Portacolone E, Chodos A, Halpern J, Covinsky KE, Keiser S, Fung J, Rivera E, Tran T, Bykhovsky C, Johnson JK

Earning the Trust of African American Communities to Increase Representation in Dementia Research.

Ethnicity & disease

Portacolone E, Palmer NR, Lichtenberg P, Waters CM, Hill CV, Keiser S, Vest L, Maloof M, Tran T, Martinez P, Guerrero J, Johnson JK