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New book tells personal story of resistance, terror, and US policy in Honduras
July 31, 2019
The Long Honduran Night is the latest book by UC Santa Cruz emerita professor of history, Dana Frank.
Women may be more vulnerable to climate change but data absent
July 31, 2019
UC San Diego Center on Gender Equity and Health researchers discuss gendered gaps in climate change research.
SPARQ creates measures, interventions to improve person-centered reproductive health care
July 31, 2019
UCSF project shows how making care person-centered could provide a path to improve women’s and children’s health.
UC Merced public health PhD student earns fellowship to study health equity
July 31, 2019
Tashelle Wright will examine tobacco use and oral health diseases among Black, Latinx, aging and rural populations in the San Joaquin Valley.
Latina mothers experienced jump in preterm births after 2016 election
July 31, 2019
A new UC Berkeley study suggests the 2016 presidential election may have adversely affected the health of Latinx mothers and their babies.
Detained migrant children need continuous medical care
July 31, 2019
“The rights of the child and their health and health care really need to be thought about as separate from the legal process that’s unfolding,” says Elizabeth Barnert, a pediatrician at UCLA.
UC Davis and USAID launch new research program to study rural poverty worldwide
July 31, 2019
Researchers will study the root causes of poverty and food insecurity with an emphasis on risk from disasters like drought, flood or conflict.
UC Speaks Up for research and prevention of campus-based sexual violence
July 18, 2019
Learn how a multi-campus effort is creating a concrete picture of how students, faculty and staff perceive interpersonal violence and the resources available in their communities.
Bringing emergency care to Tanzania
July 15, 2019
GloCal fellow Hendry Sawe works on the frontline of emergency care and research in Tanzania.
UC Santa Cruz establishes interdisciplinary Southeast Asia research center
July 15, 2019
Driven by sweeping social and environmental change, the crises emerging in Southeast Asia reflect problems that are unfolding around the world.
Alumna’s film about Syrian refugees wins Audience Award for Best Feature at SF DocFest
July 15, 2019
We Are Not Princesses, the first feature film by UC Santa Cruz alumna Bridgette Auger (SocDoc ’11) was honored at the 2019 San Francisco Documentary Film Festival.
Medical students learn about practicing medicine with limited resources in Peru
July 15, 2019
All return to graduation with ‘a priceless dose of perspective.'
Twenty new GloCal fellows embark on a year of research
July 12, 2019
Welcome to the GloCal Health Fellowship 2019-2020 cohort!
A third of children up to age 3 exposed to Zika in-utero have neurological problems
July 8, 2019
New UCLA-led research suggests that 32% of children up to the age of 3 years who were exposed to the Zika virus during the mother’s pregnancy had below-average neurological development.
Climate change could fuel next wave of immigrants from Latin America
July 8, 2019
Global climate change is likely to exacerbate the ongoing immigration crisis in the United States, according to a UC Berkeley PhD student funded by the Center for Latin American Studies.
Bay Area Global Health Alliance convenes inaugural board of directors
July 3, 2019
The meeting sets another milestone in bringing together a network of organizations across a wide spectrum of sectors to strengthen the Bay Area’s global health impact worldwide.
Meet Rachel L. Kaplan, trailblazing UCSF researcher fighting transphobia
July 1, 2019
Kaplan is undertaking the first ever study on HIV treatment and prevention among transgender women in Lebanon.
‘Committed’ CO2 emissions jeopardize international climate goals, UC Irvine-led study finds
July 1, 2019
Existing and planned fossil fuel-burning infrastructure must be retired early or replaced.
Controlling deadly malaria without chemicals
June 28, 2019
UC Riverside identifies a new tool to kill mosquitoes.
America has a health equity problem
June 28, 2019
A new UCLA study shows 'a worrisome lack of progress on health equity' in the country over 25 years.
UC Berkeley to adopt 100 villages in Meghalaya
June 28, 2019
The university plans to start a concept of smart villages and address the issue of urban migration due to environmental issues.
Cows and climate change
June 27, 2019
UC Davis researchers argue that, managed correctly, cows help restore healthy soils, conserve sensitive species and enhance overall ecological function.
Deportation worries fuel anxiety, poor sleep, among US-born Latinx youth
June 24, 2019
UC Berkeley researchers suggest that the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric and policies in the US following the 2016 presidential election may be taking its toll on the health of California’s Latinx youth.
UC Davis welcomes 24 leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa
June 20, 2019
The newest cohort of UC Davis Mandela Washington Fellows arrived for a six-week leadership in public management program.
What it means to practice global health: A lesson from Uganda
June 20, 2019
Annie Boyoung Ahn, UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences master’s student blogs about her research in Uganda.
How hurricanes cause disease outbreaks
June 19, 2019
Disasters can cause threats to public health that turn into their own calamities, according to UCLA’s Robert Kim-Farley.
UCSC celebrates graduation of first Feminist Studies PhDs
June 17, 2019
From Romania to Armenia and back to Silicon Valley, these PhDs are taking a global perspective.
USAID photo exhibit on Zika launches QBI symposium on arthropod-borne diseases
June 17, 2019
The exhibit opened June 12 in Mission Hall on the UCSF Mission Bay campus.
The population paradox
June 17, 2019
Periodic catastrophes are key to explaining incongruences in population growth over human evolutionary history, according to UC Santa Barbara scholars.
Better human rights protections around the world for people with disabilities, but gaps remain
June 17, 2019
Analysis by UCLA WORLD Policy Analysis Center evaluates international progress 12 years after landmark treaty.