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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.
Barriers to health
June 17, 2019
A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health study examines how immigrants’ lived experiences affect their access to care.
Combination of water scarcity and inflexible demand puts world’s river basins at risk
June 17, 2019
UC Irvine led study examines consumption patterns and suggests resilience strategies.
Berkeley Talks: Feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon on the butterfly politics of #MeToo
June 17, 2019
"Butterfly politics means that the right, small intervention in the structure of an unstable political system can ultimately produce systemic change."
Quantifying hope
June 17, 2019
Researchers from UC Davis are studying aspirations and poverty dynamics throughout the world, including in rural Nepal where many families live on less than $1.25 a day.
Ebola in Uganda
June 11, 2019
Anne Rimoin, UCLA professor of epidemiology and director of the Fielding School's Center for Global and Immigrant Health, was interviewed by BBC World News about the Ebola vaccine and Ebola in Uganda.
Degree, check. Next stop, heal the world.
June 4, 2019
The prospect of solving the multitude of global health issues may seem daunting, but UC grads are up to the challenge.
One of the worst in state: Merced County’s childhood obesity crisis
June 3, 2019
UC Merced's Susana Ramirez talks about the difficulty of avoiding the temptations of unhealthy foods in Latino and low-income populations.
Concerning climate
May 31, 2019
Few nations are as vulnerable to the health effects of climate change as Bangladesh, where Dr. John Clemens, of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, is helping to define the challenges and develop solutions.
Understanding the complexities of mobility and HIV in eastern Africa
May 31, 2019
High levels of mobility in sub-Saharan Africa pose a widespread challenge to HIV response efforts - UCSF researchers are looking for solutions.