The Power of Research to Create Dialogue About AAPI Women’s Experiences with Sexual Violence |
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Image: Visitors viewing art installation at the Double Jeopardy: Experiences of Sexual Violence, Xenophobia, and Anti-Asian Racism exhibition, photo by Stephanie Sumstine
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Two UCLA PhD students, Jianchao Lai and Eunhee Park, are using their research to bring awareness to sexual violence experienced by Asian women in the University of California system, both during and prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. With the support of UC Speaks Up, their research revealed urgent insights with the potential to ignite change across UC campuses and beyond. |
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"In our work, the broader goal we're striving for is to spark more research and practice in this area, and ultimately,
to raise awareness about the need
to make
the Asian community more visible."
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Jianchao Lai, PhD candidate, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
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Get to know CGHJ’s New Associate Director, Sean Arayasirikul! |
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Image: Sean Arayasirikul via UCSF |
We caught up with the Center for Gender & Health Justice’s new Associate Director, Sean Arayasirikul, PhD to learn more about their inspiration working in public health, the ways in which their genderqueer Thai American identity has influenced their journey, advice to future public health scholars, and their path to UCGHI. |
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"I am a genderqueer Thai American, a first-generation college student, and a college dropout. Living at this particular intersection of identities and social positions can be difficult to navigate and hold all at once."
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Sean Arayasirikul,
Associate Director,
UCGHI Center for Gender & Health Justice
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Updates on our Centers & Programs |
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Image: Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan, UCGHI Director of Education, photo by Roshni Desai |
Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan, UCGHI Director of Education, received an Honorable Mention in the Untold Story of 2023 contest at CUGH 2023 alongside his colleagues at Stanford University for their project: “Applying an Environmental Justice Lens to the Problem of Waste from Discarded Electronics in Accra, Ghana”.
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From left to right: GloCal Director Craig Cohen, GloCal Deputy Director Kimberly Bale, 2016-2017 GloCal Alum Siana Nkya, and 2021-2022 GloCal Alum Schola Matovu, photo by Roshni Desai |
Leadership, staff, and select alumni from the UCGHI GloCal Health Fellowship gathered to attend the NIH Fogarty International Center’s 20th Anniversary Event of Global Health Scholars & Fellows held on April 13th, 2023.
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Image: Drs. Vargas, Castillo, and Kayser with Deputy Director, Sun Yu Cotter at CUGH 2023, photo by Roshni Desai |
The CUGH 2023 session on Environmental Health Threats to Latinx Farmworkers and their Communities highlighted the research led by Dr. Federico Castillo (UC Berkeley) and Dr. Georgia Kayser (UC San Diego) from UCGHI CPH, and Dr. Armando Sánchez Vargas (University of Mexico) on various environmental health threats to farmworkers across the Americas, resulting in health disparities, and policy options to improve health and well-being.
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Image: Dr. Ushma Upadhyay, Co-Director of Center for Gender & Health Justice |
Check out UCGHI CGHJ Co-Director Dr. Ushma Upadhyay’s interview with Morning Edition on KQED (starts at 1:56 minute mark) as she discusses telehealth for medication abortion and her research findings from the CHAT study in this intense legal landscape threatening women’s access to abortion.
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Image credit: Dr. Robin Goldman (left) of the HEAL Initiative and Sonam Kumari (right), UCSF Global Health Master’s Course Assistant/Curriculum planner UCSF at CUGH 2023, photo via Sonam Kumari
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Sonam Kumari, UCSF Global
Health Master’s Course Assistant/Curriculum planner with her Master’s capstone mentor, Dr. Robin Goldman of the HEAL Initiative at CUGH 2023.
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Image credit: Roshni Desai |
The CUGH 2023 Satellite Session, “Manuscript writing for early stage investigators from low- and middle-income countries: writing for impact” was hosted by the editors of University of California Press’s open-access journal Advances in Global Health in conjunction with the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth) to offer a half-day writing workshop for CUGH conference attendees from around the world.
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Image credit: Veronica Adrover |
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Image credit: UC Los Angeles |
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Image credit: UC Santa Barbara |
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Image credit: UC Berkeley |
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Image credit: UC Riverside |
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Image credit: Charles Drew University |
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TODAY: Film Screening “Not Your Model Minority” and Discussion with Filmmaker Jon Osaki |
This documentary film will reveal ways the model minority myth has historically been used to create a wedge between AAPI and other communities of color and perpetuate divisive narratives. The discussion with the filmmaker is a Q&A opportunity for in-person and online audiences to deepen the understanding of how it is detrimental in creating partnerships amongst minority groups. |
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MAY 5: Researchers compete: Watch Grad Slam |
Graduate student researchers, representing each of UC’s 10 campuses, have three minutes or less to captivate and educate the audience as they summarize years of research into bite-sized talks. Each contestant has already won their campus Grad Slam competition and is now vying for bragging rights and a share of $14,000 in prize money at the systemwide finale. |
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MAY 10: Structural and Social Drivers of Health and Cancer Health Disparities Research |
We are increasingly aware of the impact of structural and social determinants as fundamental drivers of health inequities, but how do we design and implement population-level studies to investigate the role of these factors? This presentation will present a framework and examples of "cells to society" studies utilizing this framework. |
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UC celebrates Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month |
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) — a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. It is celebrated in May to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese people to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, as the majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants.
Through May 23
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Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration (APIAHC) Calendar at UC San Diego |
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Image credit: Manny Crisostomo |
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Image credit: UC Los Angeles |
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UC celebrates Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month |
May is Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and UCLA will celebrate throughout the month! All of these upcoming events are free unless noted otherwise.
Through August 27
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UCGHI is Hiring
Communications Specialist
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The University of California Global Health Institute is hiring for a Communications Specialist! Apply on the jobs.ucop.edu website and search for Job ID: 52385. This is a full-time career position and is fully remote (must reside in CA). Please submit your application by May 4. We are seeking a strong team member who has a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and allyship for BIPOC folks.
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