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GloCal Team Participates in Southern Africa Regional Scientific Workshop

Climate Change Is Forcing Millions to Flee—But Refugees Are Still Left Out of the Conversation

From California to Kenya and Back: A GloCal Alumna Joins the UCGHI Advisory Council

Workshop held in Lima to foster National Dementia Plan for Peru

GloCal Deputy Director Kimberly Bale visits Lima, Peru

TB Alliance’s Innovative Approach to Caring for TB Patients Globally

Black Thriving Initiative at UC Irvine Continues to Support Scholarship and Community Well-Being

A Message From UCGHI on Global Health Landscape

Center for Gender and Health Justice Leadership Transition

HIV/AIDS Among Refugees: A Hidden Global Health Crisis

GloCal Alumna Schola Matovu, PhD, RN Earns Prestigious K01 Award and Fellowship Recognition

California Funding for Injectable PrEP to Combat HIV/AIDS

Indigenous Healthcare Workers Take the Lead in HEAL Southwest Leadership Program

Reproductive Health in Refugee Camps: A Lifeline Amid Compounded Crises

Improving Water and Sanitation Access in California and Around the Globe

The Silent Crisis: Why Mental Health Must Be Central to Humanitarian Aid for Refugees

Formalizing Farm Labor Research Between Mexico and California

Expanding Latinx Representation in the Environmental Sciences Across the University of California

GloCal Fellows Attend Global Health Summer Institute at UAB

The Food Security Solution We Have Been Waiting For

Healthcare accessibility for small-scale extractive based communities: An unmet need

Mutual Aid Now: Global Health Equity Through the Lens of Grassroots Community Organizing

Exploring Family Planning among Immigrant Communities in California

Ecocide in Gaza: Israel's genocide in Gaza will create an unprecedented environmental health crisis

The Public Health Crisis of Honor Killings and Gender-Based Violence in Pakistan

UCGHI Student Ambassadors from Multiple UC Campuses Collaborate in Santa Barbara County’s Latinx and Indigenous Migrant COVID-19 Response Task Force

UC Global Health Day 2024 Closing Plenary Speaker Dr. Frank Mugisha’s Tireless Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights

SHINE Strong Fosters the Next Generation of Trans and Queer Researchers

Regional Scientific Workshop Held at Hanoi Medical University

Former GloCal Fellow, Dr. Karla Rascon-Garcia, Begins Postdoctoral Position at Duke Global Health Institute

Amplifying Asian Immigrant Women Voices through a Study on Sexual and Reproductive Health Experiences

New UCGHI Advisory Council Members Representing Local and Global Regions of the World

Eight University of California Students Selected for the Center for Gender and Health Justice Summer Internship Opportunities Program

The One Health Workforce Academies Creates Global Academic Connections in an Interdependent World

The Power of Storytelling at UC Global Health Day 2024

UC Global Health Day Speakers Show How Health Professionals Can Make Change through Policy and Advocacy

Four GloCal Fellows Attend an Implementation Workshop in Accra, Ghana

Can native speakers change health care in the Navajo Nation

Maternal Health Rights for Farmworker Women: Teaching and Research for Action

How Midwifery is Essential to Black Maternal Healthcare

Deeper Than Race: How Reluctance to Examine Black American Diversity Obscures the Maternal Health Crisis - 2024 Update

Household air pollution exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes of children from HAPIN India cohort

Data Drives Surgical Oncology Progress in Tanzania

From San Francisco Port to Dar Port – an SD4H and GloCal Collaboration

Time to treat: Using circadian medicine for infectious diseases

Dr. Rohan Radhakrishna Connects Local Californian Health to Global Health

Impact of telehealth in a student-run Shifa Community Clinic during Covid-19 pandemic and post COVID

The Impact of Crowd-Control Weapons on Healthcare Delivery and Mental Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Provider Perspectives

Barriers to Resettlement Services Access for recently resettled Afghan Refugees in the Sacramento area of California: A Qualitative Study of Providers` Perspective

Understanding AANHPI Food Security in O’ahu, Hawai’i: Research Reflections

HEAL Fellows on the Navajo Nation Provide a Means to Heal from Historical Wounds

University of California Researchers Continuing the Fight to End the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

UCGHI at 2023 NorCal Climate and Health Symposium

GloCal congratulates two alumni on beginning new faculty positions this fall!

UCGHI Center for Planetary Health Leadership, Federico Castillo, PhD and Samantha Ying, PhD, Awarded California Climate Action Grant

Two GloCal Alumni Collaborate on Dementia and Frailty Research in Uganda

From Seed Funding to Global Impact: Three Multi-Campus University of California-Based Initiatives Drive Health Equity

GloCal welcomes 16 new Steering Committee members

Latinxs and the Environment: Connecting University of California Students in Environmental Research and Social Change

Programs Across the University of California are Changing the Landscape for Global Mental Health Access

Latinx and the Environment Welcomes Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia

Breaking the Silence: UCGHI Students on Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention

UCGHI Welcomes Two New Fellows to the Sustainable Development for HIV Health (SD4H) Fellowship

GloCal MPI, Sung-Jae Lee, PhD, Appointed Co-Lead of the Health Equity and Translational Social Science (HETSS) Research Theme at UCLA

University of California Students Tell Us the Importance of Hispanic Heritage Month

UCGHI Welcomes Dr. Dalia Magaña and Dr. Valerie Cortez to Advisory Council

2021-2022 GloCal Fellow, Stephen Okoboi, Receives K43 Emerging Global Leader Award

Essential to Capitalism but Forgotten in the Harvest: LGBTQIA+ Farmworkers and the Continued Rise in Anti-Queer Regimes

Navigating Challenges & Inspiring Success: The Significance of Queer Mentorship in Academia

Community-Building as Resilience-Building: The Power of Support Groups for HIV-Positive Trans Mental Health Services

Reproductive Justice and Respectful Maternity Care

Emerging Infection Diseases/Zoonotic Diseases

The Cesarean Gap: Addressing the Racial Disparity Among Cesarean Deliveries in the U.S.

Pathways of Antibiotic Exposure: a case study of California’s Central Valley

Telehealth Use Can Overcome Disparities in Access for Medication Abortion

Fake News and Deforestation: The Double Threat to Planetary Health

Exploring the Intersections of Migration, Climate Justice, and Gender

Nutrition & Food Security

Women’s Health and Wellbeing in Armenia

Environmental Health Disparities as an Environmental Justice Issue

Reproductive Justice and Respectful Maternity Care

Emerging Infection Diseases/Zoonotic Diseases

The Cesarean Gap: Addressing the Racial Disparity Among Cesarean Deliveries in the U.S.

Pathways of Antibiotic Exposure: a case study of California’s Central Valley

Telehealth Use Can Overcome Disparities in Access for Medication Abortion

Fake News and Deforestation: The Double Threat to Planetary Health

Exploring the Intersections of Migration, Climate Justice, and Gender

The Power of Research to Create Dialogue About AAPI Women’s Experiences with Sexual Violence

Get to know CGHJ’s New Associate Director, Sean Arayasirikul!

Deeper Than Race: How Reluctance to Examine Black American Diversity Obscures the Maternal Health Crisis

Taking Root Across the UC: Expanding Latinx and the Environment to UC Riverside and Beyond

How Iran’s Woman. Life. Freedom. Movement Shaped a Movement across the UC System

Paving the Way for the Field of Disability Studies

How a UC scholar and UC faculty member are centering Black health

UCGHI Receives UC Online Awards

UCSF CHESA Statement on the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

Meet Our 2022 Summer Work Fellows

A Message From UCGHI Director Madhavi Dandu

Former GloCal fellow Dr. Archana Siddaiah publishes book on mental health

The Impacts of COVID-19 on People Living with HIV/AIDS

GloCal fellow Dr. Ouambo Hervé featured in NIEHS newsletter

Letter from the Director

GloCal/UPCH "Conducting Global Health Research" certificate program initiated

2021-2022 GloCal Fellow Angel Algarin Receives K Award and Begins New Faculty Position

UCGHI statement in response to Roe v. Wade

UCGHI Welcomes new Director!

Center Name Change: Announcing the Center for Gender and Health Justice

Dr. Tom Coates Reflects on a Trailblazing Career as he Fulfills his term as UCGHI Director

UCSF CHAT Study Aims to Break Barriers of Access in Abortion Telehealth Services

New GloCal Site PI Council convenes first meeting

As UCGHI's Deputy Director, Sun Yu Cotter Works to Cultivate More Diversity in Global Health and Take Up More Space as an Asian-American

The UC Global Health Community Gathers to Connect and Build Relationships at UC Global Health Day 2022

Six UC graduates receive fellowships for projects in women’s health, gender justice, and empowerment

GloCal fellow Schola Matovu, PhD, RN, awarded UCSF 2022 Jane Norbeck Distinguished Service Award

Sexual Assault Awareness Month: A UCGHI Student Ambassador Reflection

How Dr. Samantha Ying is Leading Social Justice-Focused Scientific Inquiry through Student-Centered Mentorship

How UC Santa Cruz’s New Global and Community Health Program Will Work at the Intersection of Social and Natural Sciences

GloCal alumnus Dr. Michael Mwachiro publishes book on mentorship

A Message from UCGHI on Ukraine

How Drs. Adriann Begay and Cristina Rivera Carpenter Center Indigenous Relational Approaches to Medicine through The HEAL Initiative

Dr. Vandana Shiva's Decades-Long Environmental Activism is Rooted in Health of All Beings

How Dr. Ricky Bluthenthal Amplifies Ignored Voices

How Dr. Brandi Summers’ Work on Geography and Blackness Intersects with Community Health

WHO selects GloCal alumnus Stephen Wandera, MSc, PhD, MSc, as TAG member for the UN Decade of Health Aging

Dr. Rupa Marya Brings Her Multitudes to All She Does

The Women’s Health Gender & Empowerment Center of Expertise’s Internship Opportunities

GloCal Fellow Lara Schwarz’s Research Highlighted in NIEHS Newsletter

CHAT Study 2021 Illustration Contest

Former GloCal Fellow Moses Obimbo Madadi awarded prestigious Calestous Juma Science Leadership Fellowship

Dr. Ushma Upadhyay’s Journey to Becoming Co-Director of the Women's Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise

The UCGHI Student Ambassador Program’s Personal and Professional Impact

GloCal Alumnus Matthew Bramble, PhD, receives K01 International Research Scientist Development Award"

GloCal Alumnus Helen Byakwaga, MBChB, PhD, receives K43 Emerging Global Leader Award to continue Kaposi Sarcoma research

Former GloCal Fellow Advances Malaria Research and COVID Testing Capacity in His Native Peru

How one UC Berkeley initiative is championing for Latinx representation in the environmental sciences

Encompass Scholars Program

National Post-Doc Appreciation Week - Dr. Chemtai Mungo

UCGHI welcomes new UCGHI Co-Director and Program Assistant

Apply now for GloCal Health Fellowship

How one UC Berkeley initiative is championing for Latinx representation in the environmental sciences

UCGHI offers UC Students online education in global health

GloCal welcomes new UC Davis PI

Salton Sea restoration efforts could fail without science

New AI Institute expands UC Merced’s smart, sustainable agriculture effort

What you need to know about the delta variant

Drought and Climate Change Shift Tree Disease in Sierra Nevada

Time to Ramp Up UC Davis’ Response to Grand Challenges

Berkeley students, staff and faculty launch Afghan scholar rescue campaign

The race to conquer COVID

UC ranks first among colleges and universities in green power usage

COVID-19 During Pregnancy Associated with Preterm Birth

Q&A: What is realistic when it comes to herd immunity?

University of California Health hospitals recognized among the best in California and the nation

Text-message ‘nudges’ can encourage holdouts to get COVID vaccination, study finds

New UCGHI Board Members Bring Focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Twenty-one new GloCal fellows embark on a year of research

UC Global Health Day 2021: Decolonizing Global Health Q & A

UCGHI Black Lives Matter Task Force Supports BLM and Institute-Wide Change

Women's Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise Student Ambassadors

Planetary Health Center of Expertise Student Ambassadors

Could California put solar panels on top of canals?

Inaugural One Health Integration in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion/Black Lives Matter Competitive Grant Winners

Navigating a year of heartbreak and hope: Q&A with Dr. Carrie L. Byington, executive vice president of UC Health

UCGHI AAPI perspectives on anti-Asian violence and racism

This is the dawning of the age of the vaccine passport

Condemning anti-Asian violence and discrimination

WHGE COE Small Grants Program to Support Mentored Research for Early Career Investigators from Historically Underrepresented Groups and Their Graduate Students

UCNet: Spark your creativity and celebrate global health

Advancing Health Equity in Santa Barbara County and Beyond: the Latinx and Indigenous Migrant COVID-19 Response Task Force and Center of Expertise Internships

The UN Sustainable Development Goals and feed the future research on rural resilience

New research shows that agrochemical pollution of waterways affects the transmission of Schistosomiasis

GloCal welcomes new UCLA PI

Discussing the roots of racism in medicine with Douglas Haynes, PhD

UC Davis World Food Center will co-host the Universities Fighting World Hunger Virtual Summit 2021

Force for Good

NIH Diversity Supplements for your students, postdocs, and faculty

GloCal fellow Monica Diaz, MD, begins new position as Assistant Professor of Neurology at UNC Chapel Hill

UCGHI Student Ambassador Program Offers Students Leadership and Career Training in Global Health

Working Globally, Locally: GloCal Fellow Manages Tanzanian Project from California

Los científicos peruanos que buscan las nuevas variantes del coronavirus

UC Davis One Health Institute Offers One Health Field Training

UCGHI Director's Statement on the invasion of the U.S. Capitol

WHGE COE Early Career Investigator Small Grants Program

Kobe Bryant And George Floyd: America’s Tragedy And Horror In Two Lives

Global Funding must be in the next COVID-19 emergency supplemental

Advances in Global Health: A Q&A with Editor-in-Chief Craig Cohen

3 UCSF faculty named to Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board

Climate change will give rise to more cancers

UC researchers pioneer more effective method of blocking Malaria transmission in mosquitoes

Biden-Harris team names Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board

People’s bodies now run cooler than ‘normal’ — even in the Bolivian Amazon

Development and validation of a person-centered abortion scale in Kenya

Statewide coalition forming to bring COVID awareness to at-risk communities

Experiencing police violence worsens mental health in distinct ways

"Learning from the Past and Working in the Present to Create an Antiracist Future for Academic Medicine"

2020 Election Series: The next president needs to think globally about COVID-19

UC Riverside is the first UC campus to teach the Cahuilla language

Former GloCal Fellow Studies Improving Retention in HIV Care with Emerging Global Leader Award

Global Sports Development and Sidewinder Films Partner with UC Speaks Up to Prevent Campus Sexual Assault

Rethinking Wildfire Cultural Burning and the Art of Not Fighting Fire

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers awarded funding for work to reduce gun-related intimate partner homicides

Fighting the health effects of climate change is the mission for new UCLA center

Global fire outlook not good news, but mitigation is possible, analysis shows

Diversifying the sciences

Connecting Through the Arts

UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences tries to stop mosquitos biting amid the pandemic

Moving the Needle

U.S. will revive global virus-hunting effort ended last year

What’s next: The future of environmental justice

New Database Better Enables Studies on Women’s Health by Making Research Measures Accessible

Breakthrough in eliminating dengue, other mosquito-borne diseases

COVID-19 exposes how Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders face stark health care disparities

New funding for firearm violence research in California

UCSC partners with CSUMB for postdoctoral training and mentorship program

WHGE COE New Special Issue: Transformative approaches to gender justice in sexual and reproductive health

UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health Researchers are Seeking Summer Campus Representatives for Virtual Film Project

Ambassador Program Prepares Future Leaders in Women’s Health and Planetary Health

UCGHI Video Series: COVID-19 Updates from Around the World

UCGHI statement in response to the death of George Floyd

Recap: Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment COE Virtual Retreat

UCLA professor and team find long-acting injectable cabotegravir is highly effective for the prevention of HIV infection

Microbiome therapy protects against recurrent bacterial vaginosis

How COVID-19 is affecting the global supply chain

Coronavirus Global Slowdown Is Cleaning the Skies. How Long Will It Last?

Urban slums are uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19. Here’s how to help

Research During a Pandemic: COVID-19 Forces GloCal Fellows to Rearrange Their Lives and Projects

UCSF Health Care Workers to Serve in Navajo Nation

Deforestation surged following end of armed conflict in Colombia

The Link Between Virus Spillover, Wildlife Extinction and the Environment

Chilean medical and midwifery students support the recent decriminalization of abortion

UC San Diego engineers and doctors team up to retrofit and build ventilators with 3D-printing

Advancing Global and Community Health at UC Santa Cruz

$2M Grant will galvanize COVID-19 response at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

More than 21,000 homeless people in U.S. could be hospitalized due to COVID-19

PREDICT receives extension for COVID-19 pandemic emergency response

A coordinated response

UC San Diego engineers and doctors team up to retrofit and build ventilators with 3D-printing

UC Riverside researchers’ mouse studies also show how a common nutrient can help babies of alcoholic moms

UC Berkeley scientists spin up a robotic COVID-19 testing lab

What the Ebola outbreak could teach us about how to contain the novel coronavirus

Coronavirus is sickening young adults and spreading through them, experts say

Tracking data used to identify biodiversity hot spots in Southern Ocean ecosystems

Leveraging human rights to change the criminal justice system

Celebrating women across the UC

A catalyst for change

Tanzanian GloCal alumna continues to tackle Sickle Cell Disease

Do no harm: IGHS works to deliver patient-centered care to women worldwide

Person-centred care for abortion services in private facilities to improve women's experiences in Kenya

$10 million grant will study children's religious views

Campus focuses on impact of Triton women in leadership

An Incomplete Victory

National Academy of Engineers elects Kurtz into it's ranks

Is there (still) a gender gap in politics?

Women firefighters face high exposure to toxic ‘forever chemicals’

How Did They Do It? The Inside Story of SB-24: Medication Abortion on UC & CSU Campuses

Working with UCSF, California Surgeon General Aims to Cut Adverse Childhood Experiences by Half

The ticket to inclusion

Agricultural area residents in danger of inhaling toxic aerosols, UC Riverside study finds

UCLA and Africa: A history of partnership, a future of shared progress

Battling brain cancer on all fronts

A special project of the UCGHI Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise

How UC is working to expand open access to its research

California's Refugee Reproductive Health Network (ReproNet): Engaging Refugee Women in Research Partnerships

UC launches first-ever organic research institute, with a hand from Clif Bar

Dementia leaders launch Latin American research initiative

Top academics join forces to tackle health and humanitarian crisis at the border

As mysterious coronavirus spreads, an infectious disease expert explains what you should know

UC Davis grad student Camila Bonilla Cedrez uses prediction models to shed light on fertilizer prices in Africa

Good catch

Can solar geoengineering mitigate both climate change and income inequality?

Urban health scare: E-Scooters show alarming spike in injuries

Global study of street networks reveals growing urban sprawl

Can solar geoengineering mitigate both climate change and income inequality?

UCLA launches institute to explore legal, policy impact of emerging tech

PhD student gets to the root of health disparities facing Hmong farmers

Request for Proposals

NIA Supplement Fellows

Potential of electric vehicles tied to solar research

UCGHI Researchers Lead One Health Workforce Training with $85 Million from USAID

Wildfires in a warming world

Shutdown of coal-fired plants in U.S. saves lives and improves crop yields

Polluted wastewater in the forecast? Try a solar umbrella

No difference in results when surgeries are performed by U.S.- or foreign-trained surgeons

California’s sea otter population could triple by recolonizing San Francisco Bay

Advances open door to more aggressive policies to meet climate goals

Integrated aquatic pest management shows promise

Young women still may be getting unnecessary pelvic exams

Coastal fog linked to high levels of mercury found in mountain lions, study finds

Smarter strategies

Atmospheric river storms create $1 billion-a-year flood damage

Many pregnancies are shorter as climate change causes more 90-degree days

Can salmon eat their way out of climate change?

NIH’s Global Health Fellowships support junior researchers in low- and middle-income nations

The heat is on

DDT Linked to Higher Risk of Diabetes Among Asian Indian Immigrants to U.S.

Babies in the womb may see more than we thought

How giant kelp may respond to climate change

As Supreme Court takes up DACA, UC students rally in support

The hippo's hidden world

Researchers look to wetlands to increase Delta water quality

UC President Napolitano’s statement on White House exit from Paris climate accord

Best of frenemies: unexpected role of social networks in ecology

Novel surgery may prevent lymphedema in patients with breast cancer

Are students getting enough air?

10 years, 10 campuses, one trailblazing career: Haile Debas reflects on UCGHI

UCCE seeks to mitigate climate change’s impact on already disadvantaged communities

Whole genome sequencing could help save pumas from inbreeding

Gaps in quality, person-centered prenatal care in rural Kenya

UC San Diego alum fulfills lifelong dream of going to space

UC Davis gets $85M to develop a One Health workforce for the next generation

UC San Diego researchers connect premature births to possible causes in central California

UC Riverside helps secure the future of food

UC Merced students engineer art from trash for annual Yosemite facelift event

On water sustainability, L.A. County earns C+ from UCLA environmental report card

UC Irvine-led study deepens understanding of the effects of media exposure to collective trauma

Climate change is coming for your cabernet

California’s crashing kelp forest

UC Berkeley Professor, Dr. Bertram Lubin to mentor Cal students and focus on the social determinants of health

California rolls out first statewide earthquake early warning system

CDC reports STDs reach all-time high for 5th year in a row, and it's killing babies

1,306 U.S. infants were born with syphilis in 2018, even though it’s easy to prevent

Plant diversity a casualty of high-severity wildfires

Becoming Arizona: Lessons from Phoenix for Sacramento

California elderberries have rich benefits for farms and diets

Unplanned Spaces: How movement patterns in rural Malawi impact HIV treatment and prevention

A GloCal Fellow’s Passion: Freshwater for Fisheries and Human Health

Rivers shaped by climate

Scientists track frog-killing fungus to help curb its spread

UC Berkeley, Jerry Brown launch new pan-Pacific climate institute

Online global health courses supplement campus offerings

UCI team uses machine learning to help tell which wildfires will burn out of control

Testing chemicals for birth defects using stem cells, not mice

Establishment of UC San Diego School of Public Health approved

Nutrition programs alone aren’t enough to support healthy brain development

Elephant seal 'supermoms' produce most of the population, study finds

UC Davis scientists identify Bombali ebolavirus in bats in Guinea

Drone monitoring of ship emissions could save lives, protect health

Climate change: a dirt-y business

How California wildfires can impact water availability

If you don't want to provide abortions, don't go into healthcare

Malaria could be eradicated by 2050, global health experts say

UCSD receives funding from ending the HIV epidemic initiative

UCGHI helps lead One Health to Planetary Health

TED Audiences get the dirt on soil and climate change from Berhe

$16 million NIH grant will help launch Center for Health Disparities Research at UC Riverside

Letter from UC President Napolitano in support of the College Student Right to Access Act

Wildfires could permanently alter Alaska's forest composition

UCLA Congo Basin Institute receives $1 million from Pritzker Family Foundation

Compost key to sequestering carbon in the soil

Women giving birth in Uttar Pradesh, India, have worse experience at higher-level facilities

Link between brain immune cells and Alzheimer’s disease development identified

Amazon rainforest absorbing less carbon than expected

What’s killing sea otters? Scientists pinpoint parasite strain

How red-eared invaders are hurting California’s native turtles

Monster tumbleweed: invasive new species is here to stay

Lake Shasta dam releases can be managed to benefit both salmon and sturgeon

Apply now for GloCal Health Fellowship

Researchers use monkey flower to study climate change

Doubling down

The animals that will survive climate change

Fertilizer feast and famine

Study shows urgent need for long-term follow up of Zika-exposed infants

UC San Diego heart transplant program boasts nation’s best survival rates

UCGHI welcomes new deputy director

New book tells personal story of resistance, terror, and US policy in Honduras

The Berkeley Lab provides new recipes for taking salt out of seawater

Women may be more vulnerable to climate change but data absent

SPARQ creates measures, interventions to improve person-centered reproductive health care

Latina mothers experienced jump in preterm births after 2016 election

UC Merced public health PhD student earns fellowship to study health equity

Detained migrant children need continuous medical care

UC Davis and USAID launch new research program to study rural poverty worldwide

UC Speaks Up for research and prevention of campus-based sexual violence

Bringing emergency care to Tanzania

UC Santa Cruz establishes interdisciplinary Southeast Asia research center

Alumna’s film about Syrian refugees wins Audience Award for Best Feature at SF DocFest

Medical students learn about practicing medicine with limited resources in Peru

Twenty new GloCal fellows embark on a year of research

A third of children up to age 3 exposed to Zika in-utero have neurological problems

Climate change could fuel next wave of immigrants from Latin America

Bay Area Global Health Alliance convenes inaugural board of directors

Meet Rachel L. Kaplan, trailblazing UCSF researcher fighting transphobia

‘Committed’ CO2 emissions jeopardize international climate goals, UC Irvine-led study finds

Controlling deadly malaria without chemicals

America has a health equity problem

UC Berkeley to adopt 100 villages in Meghalaya

Cows and climate change

Deportation worries fuel anxiety, poor sleep, among US-born Latinx youth

UC Davis welcomes 24 leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa

What it means to practice global health: A lesson from Uganda

How hurricanes cause disease outbreaks

UCSC celebrates graduation of first Feminist Studies PhDs

USAID photo exhibit on Zika launches QBI symposium on arthropod-borne diseases

The population paradox

Better human rights protections around the world for people with disabilities, but gaps remain

Combination of water scarcity and inflexible demand puts world’s river basins at risk

Barriers to health

Berkeley Talks: Feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon on the butterfly politics of #MeToo

Quantifying hope

Ebola in Uganda

Degree, check. Next stop, heal the world.

One of the worst in state: Merced County’s childhood obesity crisis

Concerning climate

Understanding the complexities of mobility and HIV in eastern Africa

Prescription for resilience

UC Irvine Chancellor Gillman joins the UCGHI Board of Directors

UC Santa Cruz sociology PhD candidate named UC Free Speech Fellow

Climate undermined by lobbying

UC San Diego report finds California above national average for sexual harassment rates

Historically redlined communities face higher asthma rates

The role of data science and machine learning to combat human trafficking

Envisioning a future for cacao amidst a changing climate

Taking the border crisis to heart

UC Riverside, Riverside schools push back against pollution

Partially deaf UC Merced student hopes to inspire others with graduation success

New report: Nearly 19,000 asylum seekers await US entry in Mexican border cities

Childbirth is hard: Health systems shouldn’t make it harder

A sense of urgency

Five UC undergraduates receive scholarships for projects in women’s health, gender and empowerment

Power isn’t water: Learnings from Kenya’s rural electrification efforts

Human impact on droughts goes back 100 years

Meet the women who battled tuberculosis in Indian country

Researchers identify faster, more effective drug combination regimens to treat tuberculosis

Ambassadors show how to protect the planet

GloCal fellow wins Emerging Global Leader Award

California farmers have raised wages, but still unable to find enough workers

UCLA Luskin professor launches organization to fill research gap at EPA

Protecting small farms in Mozambique from drought

UC Merced grad student represents San Joaquin Valley at Global Food Security Symposium

Meet Dr. Alison El Ayadi, researcher taking on female genital fistula

Plastic’s carbon footprint

USAID project helps UC Davis continue long tradition of agricultural development in Egypt

New report creates roadmap for US-Mexico cooperation on security, drug and border policy

Air pollution impacts childhood development, new UC Merced study shows

Researcher finds dangerous levels of metals in liquor sold in Uganda

From bean to cup: Anti-trafficking IdeaLab develops app for ethically sourced coffee

Learning from failure: NextDrop’s water information pilot in Bangalore

Opinion: The impact of the technology revolution on tuberculosis

Building a TB-free world

UCGHI Board of Directors welcomes new co-vice chairs

Zot n Clothes thrift shop held at UC Irvine cross cultural center

“Discovery” sparks movement to reduce impact of preterm birth in East Africa

Sixth annual Climate Conference links science and justice

Supercomputer simulations help combat tuberculosis (TB) granulomas

UC Merced Public Health undergraduate wins scholarship to conduct public health research overseas

Bernadette Boden-Albala will lead UC Irvine's School of Population Health

Oaxaca program tabbed as ‘Diversity Champion’

Joshua Blumenstock: The knowns and unknowns of big data and poverty alleviation

HIV self-test kits improve testing rates among sexual partners

GloCal fellow Natalie Ferraiolo finds her calling at the US/Mexico border

Call for undergraduate summer internship/fellowship proposals in women's health, gender and empowerment

Community engagement principles apply to global health

Mentoring to advance global health

Justice Movement

Immigrant Asian American women may be at higher risk for breast cancer

Superbug Slayer Dr. Steffanie Strathdee: 'How I Saved My Husband's Life — with Sewage'

Tragic birth sparks obstetrician’s pursuit of global health PhD

Researchers hope to tackle methane emissions in manure through use of biochar

Low-income undocumented adults are largely locked out of health care in California, study finds

How coral bleaching threatens Caribbean communities

UC Davis alumni using solar power to fight jaundice on global scale

“Imagining the future helps us engineer toward that future”: A Q&A with Will Tarpeh

How are immigrants changing our definition of health?

New project to build climate resilience through improved land management

Genome structure of malaria parasites linked to virulence

A voice for global cancer patients

Research seeks relief for hot and thirsty farmlands

Melissa Smith: New to the UC, but no stranger to global health

UC Santa Cruz grad student working to advance Beyond Compliance initiative

Increasing murder rate is erasing gains in life expectancy among Mexican men, UCLA research reports

USAID grant to improve nutrition worldwide

Fletcher Lab Cellscope is ready for scaling

Shocks to the system

Bringing science to global climate talks

Focus: Mentorship training in LMICs needs increased support

Work in Planetary Health this summer

Where will the world’s next Zika, West Nile or dengue virus come from?

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate

Iceboxes and jail: Helping immigrant mothers and children held at the border

Welcome to 2019: A message from UCGHI director Thomas J. Coates

Addressing maternal mortality through person-centered care

David Heller tackles chronic disease worldwide

Hackathon garners innovative ideas to address mosquito-borne diseases

Environmental engineers devising plan to save humanity

Rice plants that reproduce as clones from seeds

Proposed changes to immigration laws would cost California jobs, harm public health

Toxic smoke is Africa's quiet killer. An entrepreneur says his fix can make a fortune

Half a million tests and many mosquitoes later, new buzz about a malaria prevention drug

UCSF researchers awarded multi-year CDC agreement to aid six countries in monitoring recent HIV infections

UC Riverside School of Medicine and Eisenhower Health establish training affiliation

An opioid epidemic may be looming in Mexico — and the US may be partly responsible

ZestBio continues innovation with waste-based products

Shrinking groundwater

A reason for optimism: Treating chronic pediatric disease in Haiti

Generous funding to malaria-parasite researcher promises new therapeutic strategies

UC San Diego-led study predicts novel approach to battling influenza

Researcher takes first step toward improved diagnosis for Valley fever

UC Irvine and Singapore researchers find source of 2015 Southeast Asia smoke cloud

Infant HIV infection increases the risk for congenital CMV infection

InFEWS fellows take on sustainable development goals

Refugees reclaim human rights with technology

Research internship opportunity: Campus violence prevention

Shrinking Groundwater

Many gains in fight against HIV, but epidemic is far from over

Fogarty Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars seeks event coordinator

Call for nominations for UCGHI Board of Directors Vice Chair

HIV vaccine enters human efficacy trials

UCSC alumna’s film about Syrian women refugees to have world premiere at film festival

Food for thought: The Tsimane Health and Life History Project at UC Santa Barbara

Machine learning identifies antibiotic resistance genes in tuberculosis-causing bacteria

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to fund yearlong series exploring human suffering

UC grad students picked to help Global Food Initiative

UCLA team helps create facility for Ugandan women who suffered childbirth injuries

Bay Area organizations introduce Bay Area Global Health Alliance

Health communication researcher working to improve internet-based medical information

Researchers identify new approach for controlling dengue fever and Zika virus

A simpler way to get to the bottom of mysterious illnesses in poor countries

Improving chickens to quell hunger worldwide

Affordable Care Act reduced health care disparities among Latino groups in California, study finds

Steffanie Strathdee names one of the 50 most influential people in health care 2018

Tracking a killer

A new and dire diagnosis: Human trafficking

Study links individual HPV types to HIV infection

Ebola cases spike as nervous communities stop cooperating with health care workers

Grant will support efforts to integrate climate change impacts into health sciences courses

Solar power could electrify sub-Saharan Africa

$2.3 million NIH grant will support efforts to stop mosquito-borne diseases

UCSF HIV doctor to co-chair International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2020

MarHub: A technology to help refugees navigate asylum

International research conference draws new perspectives, sparks new ideas

UCLA-led Health Equity Network of the Americas is created to address gaps in health, longevity

GloCal Health Fellowship promotes global health research, builds research capacity

Video: What is global health?

Forum calls for action on climate change to protect health

Community engagement enhances graduate education

UC climate-change research is one focus of global summit

Zika virus strips immune cells of their identity

UC Davis receives $1 million from Keck Foundation following virus discovery

Clinical trial seeks to prevent heart disease in those living with HIV

The Lemelson Foundation and the Blum Center partner to help students

Call for papers in transformative approaches for gender justice in sexual and reproductive health

Video: Careers in global health

Climate change puts heat on public health

Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment deputy director launches community resource supporting women’s health

Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers show how computers can predict spread of HIV

Mobility linked with higher-risk sexual behaviors in Kenya and Uganda

Researchers plot maps, collect data to fight future infectious disease outbreaks

HIV and a tale of a few cities

Engineered sand zaps storm water pollutants

Finding Ebola before it finds you

Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise awards summer grants to five UC undergraduates

Climate change and extreme weather events: A snapshot

First Fogarty dermatology fellow studies Kaposi’s sarcoma in Uganda

Devastating events can drive human trafficking, UC Santa Cruz paper shows

Study examines how age and ethnicity impact HIV testing

UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences and Global Programs Office play key role in national survey

Health facilities in low- and middle-income countries not prepared to manage noncommunicable diseases

UC Irvine engineers host workshops in East Africa on precipitation technology

A decade of development engineering with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation

Scientists discover new Ebolavirus in bats in Sierra Leone

Rx One Health Summer Institute 2018 launches in Tanzania

Promising Los Alamos innovations take the spotlight

UC San Diego scientists ID protein exploited by virus ravaging West Africa

UCSF master's program in global health celebrates 10 years of impact

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health partners with a major Chinese medical school

Researchers to target mosquito egg productions to curtail disease

Multimillion-dollar grant brings nicotine and cannabis policy center to campus

UC Davis doctoral students researching mosquitoes

A technology for military and civilian trauma care

In health research, local efforts have global benefit

Planetary Health Center of Expertise selects summer fellows

Eleven trainees begin GloCal Health Fellowship

Global health research is about being adaptable and diligent and working together

Crowdfunding site powers passion projects

Climate change is making it harder for couples to conceive

One Health education: where are we today?

From surgery to policy, Juliet Okoroh seeks health justice worldwide

Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment COE sparks collaboration in the name of #MeToo

Sifuentez appointed to head Center for Humanities

UC San Diego launches new Center for Anti-Parasitic Drug Discovery and Development

The challenges of health care in remote Madagascar

Turning a phage

Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology

Development Impact Lab conference speaks to future of engineering for poverty solutions

The long-lasting health effects of separating children from their parents at the US border

Understanding the relationship between livestock, snakes and livelihoods in Costa Rica

Peering into Tb bacteria that attacks antibiotics

New planetary health case studies are available now

UC Merced graduate student awarded thesis of the year for work in public health

Why I stopped charging my patients for consultations

Immigrant policing and public health

The trafficking victim beside me

Training the next generation of One Health professionals

Fighting poverty with big data: A conversation with Joshua Blumenstock

No summer rest as UC students eye global health abroad, at home

PHCOE launches International Student Ambassador Program

Online global health courses supplement campus offerings

Call for student ambassadors in Planetary Health

Goosby to collaborate on $94 million USAID STAR Award to PIH

Global TIES team earns honors for solar lantern project

International partners receive funding to study sexual violence

Research offers new insights into malaria parasite

New Fulbright awards strengthen campus study abroad initiatives

Lab-confirmed prenatal exposure to Zika is linked to cardiac defects in infants

Dr. Haile T. Debas on making a contribution to underdeveloped countries In Africa

Global Programs Offices strengthen UC researchers’ work in Africa

Back at UC, but still having global impact

Farming fish could save land

Food for thought takes on new meaning for UC Global Food Initiative fellows at UCLA

Three decades before the #MeToo movement, UC San Diego led the way against sexual assault

UC Davis announces two new partnerships with Australian entities

VIDEO: University of Washington professor explains a socio-technical approach to refugee education

Climate change is ruining California’s environment, report warns

Engineering students contribute to global health solutions

UC researchers at the forefront of drought management

Three new members join the UCGHI Board of Directors

UC Riverside graduate student receives Ford Foundation fellowship

Bill McKibben, Daniel Ellsberg headline Right Livelihood Laureates' conference at UC Santa Cruz

UC Merced professor and students recognized for research excellence

Fulbright’s finest

Study forecasts a severe climate future for California

For Rosa Furneaux, winner of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship, photography begins with trust

Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence DNA from all complex life

Center for AIDS research funding renewed for an old and on-going fight

Preventive use of common antibiotic reduces child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

UC Merced's first student Fulbright Scholar heads to El Salvador for research

The secret to making it out of poverty

UCSC Community Studies class showcases public health leaders in 'Year of Alumni'

UC San Diego’s sexual assault awareness month events mark pioneering prevention and support efforts

Research links anti-immigrant prejudice to mortality risk

Is the end of the pandemic era approaching?

UCSF convenes groundbreaking commission to define path towards Malaria eradication

UCSB fellow to study violence against women at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto

Making mental health a global priority

Childhood mortality plummets as community health workers go door-to-door in Urban Mali

Study indicates that climate change will wreak havoc on California agriculture

UC San Diego chemist stirs hope for a new flu treatment

Global fisheries to be, on average, 20 percent less productive in 2300, UCI study finds

Global obesity battle: what you eat and how you think

Thousands have unsafe drinking water, but clean water is close

How UC faced down a global pandemic

Big ideas abroad

UC researchers lead malaria elimination efforts worldwide

Hilton Foundation grant to support early childhood development for babies of HIV-infected mothers in Malawi

Undergrads: funding available for women's health, gender and empowerment projects

Smart farm

First year PhD student will study health communications with a focus on Latino health

Can 1.5 million college students address climate change?

At the nexus of food, energy, and water: Elliot Campbell bridges the research gap

Jaime Sepulveda: stand up for global health

UC Riverside's Sharon Walker to continue investigating depleting water supplies globally

But first, water

Mapping HIV in sub-Saharan Africa reveals patterns

Planetary Health International Student Ambassador Program

Scientists report big improvements in HIV vaccine production

Repurposed drug found to be effective against Zika virus

Highlander Venture Fund chooses UCR professor’s ‘Next-Generation’ mosquito repellent for second Investment

New evidence shows potential of two drugs to block malaria transmission

Project aims to prevent pandemics using One Health approach

Congo Basin Institute an emerging game-changer

Planetary Health COE launches educational resource

Spring 2018 brings more global health courses to UC students

Reflecting on road safety during a holiday in East Africa

Campaign launches to increase abortion care at California universities

Strawberries embody California agriculture's conflicts

This doctor's revolutionary stem cell treatments could eradicate HIV

Researchers return to Guatemala for historic data collection

Rx One Health summer experience

How birds' genes influence adaptation to climate change

Women leaders in global health: perspectives from emerging leaders

40 Years later, some survivors of the first Ebola outbreak are still immune

Genetic changes help mosquitoes survive pesticide attacks

Researchers don’t know how toxic wildfire smoke is

Human rights lawyers rule in favor of women’s health

Guiding light

Get to work in Planetary Health

Summer opportunity with UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Summer opportunity in climate change and health equity

Summer opportunity in environmental conservation, policy and natural resources

VIDEO: Richard Feachem talks about malaria elimination

Women’s resistance to sexual assault in the time of #MeToo

Monkeypox on the rise: how worried should we be?

UCI scientists unveil new satellite-based global drought severity index

Los Alamos research fundamental to first efficacy study for mosaic HIV-1 preventive vaccine

$1.7 Million for climate-resilient agricultural research

Malaria elimination in Asia Pacific could lead to large return on investment, new study shows

DACA students represent the students we want, the doctors we need

Theater experience shapes this GloCal fellow’s medical career

Funding opportunity available for campus-based violence prevention research

UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine designated as a WHO collaborating centre for emergency and trauma care

Hydraulically fractured wells threaten groundwater systems

Medical schools partner to help undeserved communities

The social cost of carbon doubles

Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise publishes special issue in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Imagining environmental justice

UCSF and partners in Mexico study treatment to prevent diabetes

Making mosquitoes self-destruct

Prestigious fellowship furthers grad student’s asthma research

Measuring stress and child development in Mexican-origin families

Human health as a cost benefit

UCSF announces the Institute for Global Health Sciences

Scientists identify hotspots of coastal risks in Latin America and the Caribbean

Global Poverty and Practice alumni reflect on post-grad life

Preventing gender-based workplace discrimination and sexual harassment

Students collaborate for healthier populations

Save the date for UC Global Health Day 2018

Online courses prep those in line to aid global health

Data-rich, low-cost technologies help disarm diseases globally

Global Health Group celebrates 10 years of impact

Persist 2017 conference aims to inspire women to get politically active

UCLA offers new Global Health certificate

From wildlife to humans with the PREDICT project

Put people over profits, says Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus

Abortion restrictions like those in Ohio disproportionately impact low-income women and their health

Researchers create molecule that could ‘kick and kill’ HIV

Meet UC San Diego's Global Health student representatives for 2017-2018

Faculty spotlight: Nathan Samras, MD, MPH

Research honored at scholars symposium

Video: Rx One Health summer course

Social impact

Scientists estimate death rates from air pollution caused by the impact of climate change

Tiny hats for tiny babies

Growing public health program launches standalone PhD

Scientists identify new hosts for Chagas Disease vectors

Improving infant health: What’s the role for social policy?

GloCal fellow Lauren Haack: from small town USA to advocate for Latino kids

In her own words: GloCal fellow tells her story from Tanzania

“Bump Day” reflections: doing more to invest in women and girls’ health

Tick, tick, tick

New PRIME cohort aims to bridge valley’s health divide

Faculty spotlight: Matthew Waxman, MD, DTM&H

Combining vegetables and livestock in Cambodian farming

UCSF welcomes global health anesthesia fellow

GloCal fellows: Getting into the trenches for global health research

Apply now for GloCal Health Fellowship

In a warming climate, ocean- and land-based floods are a disastrous duo, UCI researchers find

Hurricane Harvey’s public health impact extends beyond flooding

Manganese in underground drinking water is cause for concern

Manufacturing in Phnom Penh

United Nations special envoy on Tuberculosis commends India for its bold vision in combating TB

Poverty policies

Mentoring to advance global health

Come together for Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment retreat

Sulfur used as pesticide linked to lung problems in children

Summer spotlight: UCLA Blum Center summer scholars

Student fellows collaborate for a healthier planet

2017 seed grants support eight planetary health research projects

Master’s students develop their passions through capstone research

UCSD students hope low-cost device will help combat HIV worldwide

UCI establishes Malaria Initiative to fight deadly disease in Africa

UC Berkeley and UCSF researchers host joint symposium at important time for global TB

Star Trek-inspired virtual mentor wins saving lives at birth seed grant

Bats are the major reservoir of coronaviruses worldwide

Undergrads, walking the villages

UCGHI names new board chair

Doctoral candidate wins Fulbright for study in Mexico

Researcher continues progress toward effective HIV inhibitor

Tackling childbirth-related mortality in the world’s poorest place

Small pest, big battle

Women's Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise invites expressions of interest for journal editing role

UCGHI and partners develop online global health courses for UC undergrads

Migrant life takes toll on health

New website showcases global health work across the University of California

Fogarty International Center renews funding for GloCal Health Fellowships

Student capstone research cited in CDC revised guidelines

GloCal fellow John Rose keeps surgery on global health agenda

Immigration does not raise crime, refuting common assumption

Nanopipette technology wins first place in NIH "Follow that Cell" challenge

UCGHI Initiative trains students, faculty to advocate for global health issues

Women's Empowerment and Global Health A Twenty-First-Century Agenda

Advocacy Initiative — Student Advocates

37 Student Innovators from UC Berkeley Gear-Up for Clinton Global Initiative University

Dreaming Big

Women's Health Center of Expertise awards summer grants to seven UC undergrads

Planetary Health Center of Expertise invites proposals for pilot research projects

Planetary Health and CA Department of Conservation offer summer graduate fellowship

Mentoring the mentors in global health research: Johannesburg, South Africa 2016

GloCal Fellow David Heller's opinion piece featured in The Washington Post

New safer conception toolkit to empower local healthcare providers and HIV-affected

Call for Papers: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

GloCal fellows participate in Lancet Commission on global surgery

Dr. Jennifer Syvertsen profiled in Global Health Matters

Prestigious global mental health study abroad grant awarded to GPH faculty, Dr. Ojeda and Dr. Burgos