The UCGHI Student Ambassador Blog is where UCGHI students bring you a fresh perspective on the world's current events and news through the lens of passionate and insightful student writers. UCGHI believes that the student voice is powerful, and by amplifying their diverse voices, we can foster meaningful discussions and contribute to the ongoing dialogue surrounding the pressing issues of global health, gender justice, planetary health, one health, and health equity.
UCGHI Student Ambassadors Pursue Bold Summer Goals in Global Health
From maternal health in rural India to environmental justice in Southern California, UCGHI Student Ambassadors are applying their skills to address the world’s most pressing health challenges. As the summer begins, these students are charting paths shaped by personal experience, global awareness, and a commitment to health equity.
Expanding Latinx Representation in the Environmental Sciences Across the University of California
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
Household air pollution exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes of children from HAPIN India cohort
Time to treat: Using circadian medicine for infectious diseases
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
Nutrition & Food Security
2022-2023 Student Ambassador Cohort - Center for Planetary Health
Nutrition and food security will always be an important topic to discuss because of food insecurities and malnutrition which impacts many countries.
Women’s Health and Wellbeing in Armenia
2022-2023 Student Ambassador Cohort - Center for Gender and Health Justice
In the innermost, mountainous regions of the Caucasus region lies a small country called Armenia. With a total population of less than three million people, women compose approximately 52.2% of this demographic.
Environmental Health Disparities as an Environmental Justice Issue
2022-2023 Student Ambassador Cohort - Center for Planetary Health
Environmental health disparities are often overlooked as contributors to health. There are many communities like the one pictured above, which are exposed to a poor-quality of environment.
Reproductive Justice and Respectful Maternity Care
2022-2023 Student Ambassador Cohort - Center for Gender and Health Justice
Reproductive Justice is a framework that uses human rights principles to resist discriminatory laws and policies based on race, gender, and class. Reproductive Justice is achieved when women, girls, and LGBTQ individuals have the power and resources to make healthy decisions about their bodies and families.
Emerging Infection Diseases/Zoonotic Diseases
2022-2023 Student Ambassador Cohort - Center for Planetary Health
Zoonoses are diseases and infections that are naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans via direct or indirect contact (e.g., through mechanical or biological vectors or fomites).
The Cesarean Gap: Addressing the Racial Disparity Among Cesarean Deliveries in the U.S.
2022-2023 Student Ambassador Cohort - Center for Gender and Health Justice
Pathways of Antibiotic Exposure: a case study of California’s Central Valley
2022-2023 Student Ambassador Cohort - Center for Planetary Health
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health issue expected to worsen with climate change. Excessive & unnecessary exposure to antibiotics leads to AMR, and understanding the pathways of antibiotic exposure can help identify high-risk population, document & understand disparities, & implement interventions.
Telehealth Use Can Overcome Disparities in Access for Medication Abortion
2022-2023 Student Ambassador Cohort - Center for Gender and Health Justice
Threats to medication abortion access are ongoing, and barriers to access persist, including racial, socioeconomic, and geographic barriers. However, one positive result of the COVID-19 pandemic is that access to telehealth broadly increased access to medication abortion.
Fake News and Deforestation: The Double Threat to Planetary Health
2022-2023 Student Ambassador Cohort - Center for Planetary Health
Brazil, known for its vast Amazon rainforest, rich biodiversity, and crucial global player in the fight against climate change, has been grappling with the dual challenges of deforestation and the spread of fake news, especially during the administration of the former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro.
Exploring the Intersections of Migration, Climate Justice, and Gender
2022 - 2023 Student Ambassador Cohort - Center for Gender and Health Justice
The global climate crisis is one of the greatest threats currently confronting humanity. Indeed, the now unfolding consequences of the crisis threaten virtually every major sphere of human existence, including ecological sustainability, economic security, political stability, human rights, and health equity.
Deeper Than Race: How Reluctance to Examine Black American Diversity Obscures the Maternal Health Crisis
The UCGHI Student Ambassador Program’s Personal and Professional Impact
UCGHI Student Ambassador Program Offers Students Leadership and Career Training in Global Health
Ambassador Program Prepares Future Leaders in Women’s Health and Planetary Health
Ambassadors show how to protect the planet
The UCGHI Planetary Health student ambassadors brought sustainability and health awareness to UC campuses this spring.