Associate Professor
Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing

Women Health Equity, Cardiometabolic Health, Sleep Health, Mental Health (e.g., Perinatal Mood Disorders, Emotion Regulation, Attachment, Parenting), Integrative Health, Digital health, Community Participatory Research, Mixed methods

Dr. Guo's project website

Dr. Guo's Selected Publications

Community Partner: MOMS Orange County

Dynamic Systems Methodology

2025 Fellow, Western Academy of Nursing
2025 Athalie R. Clark Award
2022 Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
2025 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
2022 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
2016 Dean’s Honoree for Teaching Excellence
2014 Community Research Award for Outstanding Community Partnership
with MOMS Orange County, Research Awards, University
of California Irvine Institute for Clinical & Translational
Science
2008 – 2011 Nursing Scholarship Fund, University of Washington
2008 – 2011 Hester McLaws Nursing Scholarship Award, University of
Washington
2007 Mentee Scholarship Award, National Coalition of Ethnic Minority
Nurse Associations
2006 Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
2002 – 2003 Cole Scholarship Award,University of Washington

Owolabi EO, Mbe KA, Clancy SL, Anthony R, Guo Y. Lifestyle interventions addressing cardiometabolic health among Black American women of reproductive age in the U.S. : an integrative review. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2025 May 19;25(1):590. doi: 10.1186/s12884-025-07490-7

Lindsay KL, Guo Y, Gyllenhammer LE. Mindfulness and Cardiometabolic Health During Pregnancy: An Integrative Review. Mindfulness (N Y). 2024 May;15(5):995-1013. doi: 10.1007/s12671-024-02337-2.

Guo Y, Xu Q, Dutt N, Kehoe P, Qu A. Longitudinal changes in objective sleep parameters during pregnancy. Womens Health (Lond). 2023 Jan-Dec;19:17455057231190952. doi: 10.1177/17455057231190952

Jimah, T., Kehoe, P., Borg, H., Pimentel, P., Rahmani, A., & Dutt, N., & Guo., Y. (2022). A micro-level analysis of physiological responses to COVID-19: Continuous monitoring of pregnant women in California. Frontiers in Public Health, 10:808763. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.808763

Jimah, T., Borg, H., Kehoe, P., Pimentel, P., Turner, A., Labbaf, S., Asgari, M., Rahmani, A., & Dutt, N., & Guo., Y. (2021). A technology-based pregnancy health and wellness intervention (The Two Happy Hearts): Case Study. JMIR Formative Research, 17;5(11):e30991. doi: 10.2196/30991.

Guo, Y., Kehoe, P., Pimentel, P., Rousseau, J., Axelin, A., Rahmani, A., & Dutt, N. Exercise and stress in at-risk women during pregnancy and postpartum: A mixed methods study (2021). MCN: The American Journal of Maternal and Child Nursing, 46. Doi
10.1097/NMC.0000000000000722

Guo., Y., Spieker, S. J., & Borelli, J. L. (2020). Emotion co-regulation among mother- preschooler dyads completing the Strange Situation: Relations to internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Journal of Child and Family Studies, doi: 10.1007/s10826-020-01812-3

Guo Y, Rousseau J, Hsu AS, Kehoe P, Daviss M, Flores S, Renno P, Saunders K, Phillips S, Evangelista LS. Emotional and Behavioral Health Needs in Elementary School Students in an Underserved Hispanic Community. J Sch Nurs. 2019 Apr;35(2):128-136. doi: 10.1177/1059840517726857.

Guo Y, Rousseau J, Renno P, Kehoe P, Daviss M, Flores S, Saunders K, Phillips S, Chin M, Evangelista LS. Feasibility of an emotional health curriculum for elementary school students in an underserved Hispanic community.

2024-2028 “Individualized Learning and Prediction for Heterogeneous Multimodal Data from Wearable Devices” funded by NIH NCI (Role: MPIs)

2018-2023 “UNITE: Smart, Connected, and Coordinated Maternal Care for Underserved Communities" funded by NSF (Role: MPIs)

2023-2027 “SHERO: Integrating Tech-Enabled COMSS into Perinatal Systems of Care to Advance Equity in New Orleans, LA” funded by DHHS OMH (Role: Co-I)

Asian American Pacific Islanders Nurses Association

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

Western Institute of Nursing

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses

American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Institute for Future Health: https://futurehealth.uci.edu/projects/

Connected Learning Lab: https://connectedlearning.uci.edu/

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Last updated
06/19/2025