Pride Month, Juneteenth, and Global Health Updates, Opportunities, and Events!
UC Global Health Day 2024 Closing Plenary Speaker Dr. Frank Mugisha's Tireless Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights
Image Credit: Frank Mugisha / TIME
We were honored to have Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), human rights champion, and anti-violence advocate, Frank Mugisha, PhD, as our Closing Plenary Speaker at UC Global Health Day. Recently, Dr. Mugisha was recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People.
"We need to work together as a collective because LGBTQIA+ rights are under attack and reproductive health and rights are under attack globally"
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Frank Mugisha
(Executive Director, Sexual Minorities Uganda)
SHINE Strong Fosters the Next Generation of Trans and Queer Researchers
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"It’s really daunting as a trans person to enter higher education... This program is unlike any other research program I've seen."
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Mayor Manlapid
(UC Santa Cruz, 2023-2024 SHINE Strong Scholar)
Image Credit: Leo Gorgatti and Mayor Manlapid
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded SHINE Strong program is the first training and mentoring program for undergraduate students committed to cultivating the next generation of HIV behavioral scientists with expertise in trans population health. Meet two of SHINE Strong's 2023-2024 Scholars from UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz!
Applications for the GloCal Health Fellowship are now open! GloCal supports awarded fellows from all 10 UC campuses as well as 22 affiliated sites across 18 countries.
Dr. Federico Castillo, Summer Work Experience Program Fellow, Moncerrat Hernandez (UCB), and team are working to grow Planetary Health's footprint in Latin America through the project, "UC-Mexico Farm Labor Research Cluster."
Dr. Sean Arayasirikul was awarded $166,418 from NIH to work with CGHJ leadership to create short courses designed to advance gender and health justice research and education.
HEAL proudly launched a Spanish language HEAL cohort in rural Mexico. This initiative aligns with HEAL's commitment to bridging gaps for health workers in remote areas, who face many challenges.
Are you a faculty, staff, or learner affiliated with the University of California system? Submit your work to Advances in Global Health and take advantage of the University of California complete fee waiver!
That's a wrap for the 2023-2024 Student Ambassador Program! Check out the UCGHI Student Ambassador Blog to read some of the newest Student Ambassador blog pieces.
The Africa Interdisciplinary Health Conference (AfIHC) aims to showcase research and best practices in a wide range of health-related disciplines across Africa and beyond. This hybrid conference is on August 21-23, 2024.
Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2025 will take place in Atlanta, Georgia from February 20-23, 2025. Submissions for panels, abstracts, and pre-conference workshops are now open!
The UC Center for Climate, Health and Equity has teamed up with the American Medical Association (AMA) to create a set of FREE online educational materials for health professionals about the intersection of climate change and health.
CUGH members are invited to apply to join one of several committees and subcommittees that are seeking new members to serve two-year terms that involve less than 3 hours of work per month. Apply by June 30th.
UCSF's Institute for Global Health Sciences is introducing a new part-time two-year track for their MS in Global Health Sciences program. Apply by July 15th.
