UCGHI Celebrates International Women’s Day, Women's History Month and Gender Equity Month |
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The UC Global Health Institute is excited to honor and recognize the incredible ciswomen, transwomen and non-binary individuals around the globe and across disciplines who are committed to advancing justice, equity, health and human rights.
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Photo courtesy of Matt Hrkac |
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Introducing UC Global Health Day 2022 Plenary Speaker:
Dr. Vandana Shiva
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UCGHI is pleased to announce Dr. Vandana Shiva, as a plenary speaker for this year's UC Global Health Day on May 7, 2022. Dr. Shiva is a physicist, philosopher, proponent of non-violent collective action and activist for food sovereignty, environmental justice, ecofeminism and the anti-globalization movement. Dr. Shiva shares how her upbringing fostered her commitment to sustainable agricultural practices and biodiversity.
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Photographed Above: Dr. Vandana Shiva |
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Photographed Above: Dr. Adriann Begay (left) and Dr. Cristina Rivera Carpenter (right) |
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Introducing Closing Plenary Speakers: Drs. Adriann Begay and Cristina Rivera Carpenter |
UCGHI is pleased to announce Drs. Adriann Begay and Cristina Rivera Carpenter as closing plenary speakers for UC Global Health Day, and will center Indigenous relational approaches to medicine from their perspective as Indigenous women and healthcare practitioners. |
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Call for Applications: UCGHI Director Position |
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The UC Global Health Institute is seeking applicants for the UCGHI Director position.
Application deadline is March 27, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
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Photographs courtesy of Dr. Woutrina Smith (top) and UCOP (middle and bottom) |
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Applications Open: UCGHI Planetary Health Center of Expertise Summer Work Experience Program
The Planetary Health Center of Expertise (PHCOE) Summer Work Experience Program offers students a unique hands-on opportunity to work on projects related to natural resources, agriculture, climate change, and environmental and health policy.
Applications deadline is March 31, 2022
Planetary Health Summer Work Experience Program Seeks Hosts
The Summer Work Experience program is a wonderful way to connect and collaborate with talented UC students. Funding is not a prerequisite to host (as some scholarships/stipends are available). You may request an undergraduate and/or a graduate student and students are often available to work June 2022 - August 2022. The matching of students to hosts will occur from mid-February to mid-March 2022.
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UC Spring 2022 Online Course Enrollment Open |
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There are a wide variety of fascinating online global health courses and other disciplines taught by expert faculty and available to UC students across all 10 campuses via UC Online. Satisfy degree requirements or explore new subjects with the convenience and flexibility of online learning.
Students can take courses such as VME057V Global Population, health & environment which is being offered Spring 2022, and is instructed by UCGHI Planetary Health Center of Expertise co-Director, Dr. Woutrina Smith and Deputy Director, Dr. Federico Castillo. |
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Call for Graduate Student Research Fellowship Proposals in Women's Health, Gender and Empowerment
The UCGHI Women's Health, Gender, and Empowerment Center of Expertise (COE) will fund up to $2,500 to support University of California graduate students pursuing fellowships during the summer of 2022.
This opportunity is for University of California graduate students across the 10 UC campuses to provide seed funding for research projects of their own design. Research projects should be innovative and in the areas of women’s health, gender justice, and/or empowerment.
Applications must be submitted by March 18th, 2022 at 5:00 pm (PT).
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Images courtesy of UCI and UCSC |
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Image courtesy of: Nadiinko/iStock |
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Internship Opportunities in Women's Health, Gender and Empowerment
The UCGHI Women's Health, Gender, and Empowerment Center of Expertise (COE) is coordinating internship opportunities from health-related and non-profit organizations, government agencies, research centers and university departments. Internships are available to all current University of California (UC) undergraduate students.
Applications must be submitted by March 18th, 2022 at 5:00 pm (PT).
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Congratulations to Advances in Global Health (AGH) for Publishing First Articles!
AGH is an open-access, online-only journal from University of California Press and UCGHI, that takes a new approach to publishing research in the field of global health by aligning the journal with several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology
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Congratulations to Oladele “Dele” Ogunseitan, PhD, UC Presidential Chair and professor of population health and disease prevention with the UCI Program in Public Health and UCGHI Education Director , who was recently selected to serve as a fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology, one of the largest life sciences societies in the world.
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Photographed Above: Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan |
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Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and UCSF HEAL Meet to Discuss Federal Funding to Grow Indigenous Health Workforce |
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Photographed Above: Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez stands with UCSF HEAL representatives including Navajo Fellows Dr. Adriann Begay, Dr. Cristina Rivera Carpenter and Dr. Marla Yazzie in front of Window Rock Tribal Park |
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UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative Provides Services to Asylum Seekers and Training for Clinicians |
These clinics have supplied thousands of pro bono medical affidavits to asylum-seekers and the program provides trainings in forensic evaluations for clinicians.
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Photographed Above: HHRI Chair, Dr. Coleen Kivlahan (right) and HHRI Executive Director, Dr. Suzanne Barakat (left), Photo credit: Walter Zarnowitz |
HHRI & HRC's first ever Asylum Provider Training - September 14, 2019 |
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Seeking Mentors and Mentee opportunities for National Science Foundation AGILE Program |
The new National Science Foundation program, Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in Geoscience: Inclusivity, Leadership, and Experience or AGILE, aims to increase undergraduate AAPI participation in the geosciences through research internships and one-on-one mentoring. AGILE strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups, and first generation college students.
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Photographed Above: Maia Tarnas |
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Addressing global health one community at a time
Maia Tarnas is a UC Global Health Institute 2021-22 Student Ambassador and UC Irvine doctoral student in global health. In a recent interview she shares her hopes to provide solutions to climate-related conflict.
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Congratulations to CHAT Study Illustration Contest Winner Lauren Perrin!
Lauren is a visual and User-Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) designer. Keep an eye out for
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2022 Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Virtual Conference | March 28 - April 1 |
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Over 2,000 scientists, students and implementers from academia, NGOs, government and the private sector will present, learn and collaborate to address some of the pressing challenges our world faces at the annual CUGH conference. A wide range of medical and non-medical disciplines are represented throughout the virtual pre-conference satellites (free to attend, register online). Attendees will be inspired and challenged to learn new skills, gain new contacts and find ways we can improve the health of people and the planet.
This year, UCGHI is one of the CUGH host institutions, and we look forward to seeing many UCGHI collaborators participating and presenting on panels such as:
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Environmental Justice for Human and Planetary Health on March 28, at 9am PT / 12pm ET
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The Science of Science Communication and the Importance of Communicating with Non-Scientific Audiences on March 28, at 2:00 pm PT/5:00 pm ET
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Photographed Above: Dr. Paul Farmer, photo courtesy of Partners In Health |
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Remembering Global Health Champion, Dr. Paul Farmer |
UCGHI joins the global health community in mourning the loss of medical anthropologist and physician Dr. Paul Farmer.
Dr. Sriram Shamasunder, director of the UCSF HEAL Initiative shares his memories of Dr. Farmer in his piece "With love and tears: My first and last memories of Dr. Paul Farmer" which he published via NPR's global health development blog, Goats and Soda.
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Photo credit: Getty Images |
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University Of California, Irvine Receives $55 Million Gift for The Study Of Depression |
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UCLA Health: Presenting the case of a woman with HIV-1 in remission following specialized stem cell transplantation for leukemia |
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Image courtesy of National Institute of Health |
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Photo credit: The SeaDoc Society
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Photo credit: Famartin/Wikimedia Commons
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Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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Photo credit: Wei Qian/National Cancer Institute
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Photo Credit Motortion/iStock |
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Photo courtesy of Aminta Kouyate
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Photo Credit: The Blue Diamond Gallery |
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Photo courtesy of UC Hastings |
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Photo courtesy of Charles Drew University |
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- March 9, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
- March 9, 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm PT
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March 10 & 11, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. PT, virtual event
- March 12, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PT, in-person and virtual
- March 24, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm PT
- April 1, 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm PT
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April 18, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm PT
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April 21, 8:00 am until April 22, 6:00 pm ET
- May 7, 2022, day-long hybrid event
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