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Moving the Needle

September 7, 2020
New NSF-funded fellowship program at UC Santa Barbara aims to engage undergraduates from underrepresented groups in the environmental sciences via research and field work.

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

September 7, 2020
A federal agency is resurrecting a version of PREDICT, a scientific network that for a decade watched for new pathogens dangerous to humans. Joe Biden has also vowed to fund the effort.

What’s next: The future of environmental justice

September 1, 2020
UC Irvine assistant professor of urban planning & public policy argues that the most effective environmental solutions will come from the communities suffering the most – and that policymakers should listen to them.

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

September 1, 2020

Women’s health researchers now have a new tool to help them with their projects—EmpowermentMeasures.org, a Database of Gender and Women’s Empowerment Measures—through the work of the UCGHI Women's Health, Gender, and Empowerment (WHGE) Center of Expertise.

Breakthrough in eliminating dengue, other mosquito-borne diseases

August 27, 2020
A UC Berkeley 27-month trial in Indonesia of a unique method of mosquito control shows that the strategy can reduce the incidence of dengue.

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

August 25, 2020
UCLA researchers work to see how COVID-19 is affecting Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.

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

August 22, 2020

Dr. Jennifer Wagman and Claire Amabile at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health are seeking summer campus representatives from all 10 UCs to assist in a project that uses film as a violence prevention tool. The film includes, At the Heart of Gold, a documentary that features brave testimonials from various female gymnasts who survived the abuse of ex-medical doctor Larry Nassar.

UCGHI WHGE COE Global Seed Grant Program announces three new awardees from Colombia, Mexico, Kyrgyzstan

August 21, 2020
The UCGHI WHGE COE Global Seed Grant Program announces three new awardees from Colombia, Mexico and Kyrgyzstan working on violence prevention.

UCSC partners with CSUMB for postdoctoral training and mentorship program

August 17, 2020
A $4.2 million NIH grant to UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells is funding an innovative program to address underrepresentation of minorities in biomedical faculty.

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

August 3, 2020
The University of California Global Health Institute’s Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment prepared  a special issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality journal on Transformative Approaches for Gender Justice in Sexual and Reproductive Health, led by Guest Editors Rebecca Fielding-Miller and Abigail Hatcher.

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

July 7, 2020
Four UC students reflect on their UCGHI Student Ambassador Program experience earlier this year. Ambassadors select between two areas of focus linked to the two centers of expertise within UCGHI: Women's Health, Gender, and Empowerment (WHGE) Center of Expertise and Planetary Health Center of Expertise. The program provides a leadership opportunity for students at all educational levels across the 10 UC campuses.

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

May 18, 2020
The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) announced today results from HPTN 083, a global randomized, controlled, double-blind study showing long-acting injecting cabotegravir lowered HIV incidence among cisgender men and transgender women who have sex with men.

Microbiome therapy protects against recurrent bacterial vaginosis

May 18, 2020

A product containing healthy vaginal bacteria has proved effective against recurrent bacterial vaginosis (BV), an extremely common vaginal infection that is associated with preterm birth, HIV infection and problems with in vitro fertilization, new UCSF findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine on May 14, 2020.

How COVID-19 is affecting the global supply chain

May 5, 2020
UCR professor explains the pandemic’s impacts from toilet paper shortages to potential labor issues.

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

April 29, 2020

UC San Diego Scripps Oceanography climate scientists ponder what episode tells us about global warming.

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

April 29, 2020
UC Berkeley professor of Public Health/City and Regional Planning at Berkeley Public Health, talks about how communities in urban slums are uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19.

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

April 27, 2020
GloCal fellows work in and come from countries around the world. As COVID-19 rages, fellows are living through the choices the countries where their research projects are located have made to control the pandemic.

UCSF Health Care Workers to Serve in Navajo Nation

April 24, 2020
A team of UC San Francisco health care workers traveling to Arizona and New Mexico begin a one month voluntary assignment providing urgently needed health care support for patients in the Navajo Nation.

Deforestation surged following end of armed conflict in Colombia

April 10, 2020
UCLA researcher and Colombian colleagues highlight the importance of good governance of protected areas.

The Link Between Virus Spillover, Wildlife Extinction and the Environment

April 8, 2020
As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question is, can infectious diseases be connected to environmental change? Yes, indicates a study published today from the University of California, Davis’ One Health Institute.

Chilean medical and midwifery students support the recent decriminalization of abortion

April 3, 2020
UCSF Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) surveyed  medical and midwifery students in Chile regarding their attitudes about abortion.

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

April 2, 2020

UC San Diego students, staff and faculty address one of the key challenges of COVID-19 outbreak.

Advancing Global and Community Health at UC Santa Cruz

April 1, 2020

As countries across the globe fight the coronavirus pandemic, UC Santa Cruz is creating a new program that will prepare students and provide research to solve current and future global health problems.

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

April 1, 2020
To help combat the public health crisis presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Heising-Simons Foundation has made a $2 million grant to UC San Francisco to establish a COVID Response Initiative at UCSF partner hospital Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG).

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

April 1, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to kill more than 3,400 people experiencing homelessness across the United States, according to new estimates from researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

PREDICT receives extension for COVID-19 pandemic emergency response

April 1, 2020
With the $2.26 million extension, the UC Davis PREDICT project will continue to provide technical expertise to support detection of SARS CoV-2 cases in Africa, Asia and the Middle East to inform the public health response.

A coordinated response

March 30, 2020
UC Santa Barbara researchers who have studied xenophobic reactions to disease outbreaks consider society’s response to COVID-19.

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

March 30, 2020
UC San Diego students, staff and faculty address one of the key challenges of COVID-19 outbreak.

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

March 30, 2020
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

March 30, 2020
As doctors around the country scramble to diagnose cases of COVID-19, scientists at the UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) are creating from scratch a diagnostic lab with the capability to process more than 1,000 patient samples per day.

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