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Food for thought: The Tsimane Health and Life History Project at UC Santa Barbara
November 9, 2018
Two indigenous populations offer a glimpse into how diet — and western eating habits — impact health and wellbeing
Machine learning identifies antibiotic resistance genes in tuberculosis-causing bacteria
November 9, 2018
UC San Diego researchers have trained a machine learning algorithm to identify and predict which genes make infectious bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to fund yearlong series exploring human suffering
November 9, 2018
The yearlong series at UC Irvine will offer lectures, symposia and presentations from invited speakers.
UC grad students picked to help Global Food Initiative
November 9, 2018
The student, from UC Berkeley and UC Davis, will work on research for improved food security and agricultural sustainability.
UCLA team helps create facility for Ugandan women who suffered childbirth injuries
November 9, 2018
50-bed center will treat fistulas caused during obstructed labor.
Bay Area organizations introduce Bay Area Global Health Alliance
November 9, 2018
UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Stanford and UCSF are among founding partners of the Alliance.
Health communication researcher working to improve internet-based medical information
October 26, 2018
UC Merced public health communication Professor Susana Ramirez’s new partnership with an eHealth startup aims to help people get quality information and find out what they do with it once they have it.
A simpler way to get to the bottom of mysterious illnesses in poor countries
October 26, 2018
Backed by major funders, a group of scientists, including UCSF researchers, has created a platform to help the world’s disease detectives. Will it work?
Researchers identify new approach for controlling dengue fever and Zika virus
October 26, 2018
UC Riverside study uses gene-editing tool to disrupt serotonin receptor linked to egg production in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
Improving chickens to quell hunger worldwide
October 26, 2018
UC Davis researchers are leading an international effort to identify genes crucial to breeding chickens with enhanced resistance to Newcastle disease and heat stress.
Affordable Care Act reduced health care disparities among Latino groups in California, study finds
October 26, 2018
UCLA analysis shows that legal status of Mexican-heritage Latinos plays a significant role in the ability to access services
Steffanie Strathdee names one of the 50 most influential people in health care 2018
October 26, 2018
Medical drama propelled UC San Diego epidemiologist to forefront in fight against multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Tracking a killer
October 15, 2018
UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego and Sanford Prebys Medical Discovery Institute researchers trace the complex and variable pathways to the deadly condition known as sepsis.
A new and dire diagnosis: Human trafficking
October 15, 2018
In the first-of-its-kind policy, all mandated reporters within UC San Diego Health will be responsible for reporting suspected victims of human trafficking.
Study links individual HPV types to HIV infection
October 15, 2018
UC Riverside-led study finds persons with any HPV type, more than one HPV type, or high-risk HPV are more likely to test HIV positive.
Ebola cases spike as nervous communities stop cooperating with health care workers
October 15, 2018
Anne Rimoin, associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health was quoted by The Hill in an article about the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Grant will support efforts to integrate climate change impacts into health sciences courses
October 15, 2018
Oladele Ogunseitan, chair and professor in UC Irvine’s Program in Public Health and UCGHI education director, will host a faculty training workshop in winter 2019.
Solar power could electrify sub-Saharan Africa
October 15, 2018
Decentralized solar energy may soon compete with grid-based power systems in cost and reliability in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to UC Berkeley research.
$2.3 million NIH grant will support efforts to stop mosquito-borne diseases
October 5, 2018
National Institutes of Health award to UC Riverside’s Naoki Yamanaka recognizes highly innovative research.
UCSF HIV doctor to co-chair International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2020
October 5, 2018
The 23rd International AIDS conference is returning to the Bay Area for the first time in 30 years, with leadership from renowned UC San Francisco physician-scientists and the International AIDS Society.
MarHub: A technology to help refugees navigate asylum
October 5, 2018
A chatbot created by UC Berkeley students gives refugees personalized information regarding their specific path to asylum.
International research conference draws new perspectives, sparks new ideas
October 5, 2018
Interdisciplinary leaders from around the world met at UC Davis to develop new strategies to address today's pressing global problems.
UCLA-led Health Equity Network of the Americas is created to address gaps in health, longevity
October 5, 2018
Dr. Michael Rodriguez is founding chair of group that promotes health equality.
GloCal Health Fellowship promotes global health research, builds research capacity
October 2, 2018
Learn how the GloCal Health Fellowship is building capacity within partner countries, promoting research that has a broad impact, and building a pipeline of researchers for the University of California system.
Video: What is global health?
September 28, 2018
UC experts define the field of global health.
Forum calls for action on climate change to protect health
September 27, 2018
Nearly 300 hundred experts gathered this month at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus to discuss the global health emergency that is climate change and to call for action to protect human health and well-being.
Community engagement enhances graduate education
September 27, 2018
UCSC class connects first-year graduate students with disadvantaged communities that lack access to affordable clean water.
UC climate-change research is one focus of global summit
September 27, 2018
UC Merced researchers help write the San Joaquin Valley section of the Fourth California Climate Change Assessment.
Zika virus strips immune cells of their identity
September 27, 2018
UC San Diego researchers develop new lab technique for separating infected and uninfected cells helps reveal how Zika virus manipulates the human immune system.
UC Davis receives $1 million from Keck Foundation following virus discovery
September 27, 2018
Researchers at the UC Davis, and the University of Alberta, Canada, have made preliminary discoveries about how Zika and hepatitis C viruses reproduce at the cellular level.