Breakout sessions
All times are listed in Pacific Time (PT)
UCGHI GloCal Health Fellowship
Block A
11:10 am – 12:00 pm PT
This session will be facilitated by Kimberly Bale, GloCal Deputy Director, and will highlight the experiences of three recent program alumni who were UC doctoral and professional students at the time of their fellowships. Alumni participants will include Melissa Salm, Huan Dong, and Noah Kojima; the requested details on these presenters have been submitted separately. These former fellows will briefly share on their experience in the program, including what they gained from the fellowship and how it shaped their career development. There will also be time for attendees to ask questions of the panelists. The GloCal Health Fellowship is a fantastic opportunity for UCGHD attendees to consider if they would like to launch a career in global health research. In addition, UC faculty will find the session relevant as a funding opportunity for their aspiring students and fellows.
Presented by
- Kimberly Bale, UCSF
- Noah Kojima, UCLA
- Huan Dong, UCLA
- Melissa Salm, Stanford
Location
Social Sciences 2 Classrooms
Room 159
Uniting Campuses Across the Globe to End Sexual Violence through Research: The Global College Campus Violence Prevention Network
Block A
11:10 am – 12:00 pm PT
Sexual violence (SV) is an insidious problem on colleges and universities. Students who experience SV are at risk of poor health outcomes, including anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation. There has been increased attention to SV against college and university students in the United States, but little is known about or has addressed this problem in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). In 2018, the Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise (WHGE-COE) launched the Global College Campus Violence Prevention Network (GCVP-N) to establish partnerships between researchers at the University of California and at colleges and universities in LMICs, to collaboratively work to prevent violence on their campuses. A seed grant program awarded funds to four university teams to conduct SV research. Members of the GCVP-N have participated in knowledge and cultural exchange. Due to COVID-19, each of the 9 member campuses will receive additional funds to support further growth of their projects. The GCVP-N was launched to bring together people interested and invested in SV prevention to create space to share knowledge, ideas, and tools. Overall, the Network unites violence preventionists across the globe to improve campuses’ responses to and prevention of SV incidents. Through a public health lens, the GCVP-N aims to address local and global issues related to SV, and to ensure that institutions of higher learning are safe, equitable spaces for all.
Presented by
- Claire Amabile, UCLA
- Stephanie Sumstine, UCLA
Location
College Nine and Ten University Center
Alumni Room
Roundtable Discussion on Food Justice and Health Equity: A UC Global Health Institute Pilot Center of Expertise
Block A
11:10 am – 12:00 pm PT
The panelists will include participants from UC Davis, UC Berkley, and a Black-owned Califonia-based social and environmental equity non-profit. Topics we will address include: Historical threats and opportunities to generate viable food systems Understanding & decolonizing language & media around food & health; Teaching health empowerment and agricultural self-sufficiency; Overcoming barriers to enter fields of global health; Resilience in times of climate change & COVID-19; Food insecurity among UC student populations; Fostering community/academic partnerships for funding & Food Justice.
Presented by
- Carrie Waterman, UC Davis
- Makeda Cheatom, World Beat Center
- Susana Matias Medrano, UC Berkeley
Location
Social Sciences 2 Classrooms
Room 171
Surgery and Perioperative Care Pilot Center of Expertise at the University of California
Block A
11:10 am – 12:00 pm PT
Surgery and perioperative care are growing as priorities in global public health. Surgical care is required for trauma, non-communicable diseases, emergencies, maternal and child health, and a wide range of other conditions, composing about 30% of the global burden of disease. Substantial disparities exist globally in access to safe surgical care, both domestically and regionally (here in California) and in low- and middle-income countries. Nonetheless, these areas have received much less funding support than other priority areas in global health. Multiple UC campuses have established programs in global surgery but currently there is limited collaboration between campuses or coordinated plans to tackle priority areas for both California and for our partners in LMICs. We will share collaborative opportunities with key programs at our UC campuses, how to grow programs at other campuses, areas of innovation, translation of lessons across settings, and strategies to elevate the role and voices of LMIC colleagues.
Presented by
- Doruk Ozgediz, UCSF
- Terri Chin, UC Irvine
- Cameron Gaskill, UC Davis
Location
Social Sciences 2 Classrooms
Room 167
Latinx and the Environment: Towards a better understanding of the relationship between environmental drivers and their socio-economic impact on the Latinx Community
Block A
11:10 am – 12:00 pm PT
The topic of the session centers on the disproportionally negative impact of environmental drivers in communities of color, particularly Latinx communities. Participants, part of the Latinx and the Environment Program at UC, will share ongoing research efforts in California and discuss how communities of color are adapting to the impacts of climate change. Panelists include members of the academic sector and representatives of community-based organizations (CBOs) from California.
Presented by
- Federico Castillo, UC Berkeley
- Sam Ying, UC Riverside
- Nina Ichikawa, UC Berkeley
- Rey Leon, LEAP Institute
- Nataly Escobedo Garcia, Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability
Location
Social Sciences 2 Classrooms
Room 179
Student Led Discussion on Plenary Themes from Vandana Shiva and Rupa Marya
Block A
11:10 am – 12:00 pm PT
This hybrid session will include virtual and in-person participants.
Presented by
- Primary Moderator: Lucia Vitale, UC Santa Cruz
- Co-Moderator: Ndola Prata, UC Berkeley
Location
Social Sciences 2 Classrooms
Room 075
How We Make It: Disability Justice for the Long Haul
Block A
11:10 am – 12:00pm PT
The University of California Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine’s Residential Research Group on Long Covid, aka the How We Make it collective, is comprised of ten scholar-artists from across north America and beyond. Drawn from dance, photography, film, anthropology, history, and gender studies, each of the members is pursuing research related to Long Covid; a significant number of the collective live with Long Covid or other disabilities. The collective is also working together on collaborative publications and presentations that focus on the question of evidence: What counts as evidence in global health today? How has/did the pandemic open up the world of patient-led research and what is happening at present? Where do we see the archive, the traces, of Long Covid, imagined both as the post-acute sequelae of Covid-19 and as the long duree of a pandemic that stretches into the past and future?
Presented by
- Megan Moodie, UC Santa Cruz
- Tamara Ho, UC Riverside
- Rachel Lee, UCLA
Location
- Virtual via Zoom
A Crisis Threaded through Viral Isolation: The Case for Humanitarianism in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Block B
2:50 – 3:40 pm PT
This multidisciplinary breakout session aims to explore the intersection between health and human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This work extends beyond the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic to examine the state of health in the current humanitarian crisis. Through a roundtable discussion, we hope to assess the fragile relationship between pandemic response and human rights, focusing on social determinants, planetary health, malnutrition, and the role of politics in healthcare.
Presented by
- Abigail Corrao, Georgetown
- Matthew Carvalho, Georgetown
Location
Social Sciences 2 Classrooms
Room 159
One Health University Networks to foster pandemic preparedness in communities - a centralized collaborative team vs dispersed collaborative team model case study
Block B
2:50 – 3:40 pm PT
This interactive case study will provide for structured discussion and problem solving focused on two models for One Health University Networks that work across countries in Africa and Southeast Asia. The Africa One Health University Network (AFROHUN) uses a centralized collaborative team structure to implement training activities for pandemic preparedness and response across 9 countries in Africa. In contract, the Southeast Asia One Health University Network (SEAOHUN) uses a dispersed collaborative team model across 8 countries to implement training activities for pandemic preparedness and response. Session participants will work in small groups to compare and contrast strengths and weaknesses of these two types of operational structures for fostering global health security with a focus on the potential for communities to shape implementation plans and social justice over time.
Presented by
- Woutrina Smith, UC Davis
- Brian Bird, UC Davis
- Omar Romero-Hernandez, UC Berkeley
- Martin Smith, UC Davis
Location
College Nine and Ten University Center
Alumni Room
Educating medical students on immigrant human rights and forensic medical evaluations through an elective workshop series
Block B
2:50 – 3:40 pm PT
Despite the World Medical Association calling on medical schools to incorporate human rights and medical ethics as core components of curricula, there are few structured, ongoing training programs on human rights in US medical schools. We believe that physicians in training must understand the social, cultural, and environmental contexts within which they will practice. Specifically, issues of racism, police brutality, climate change, and COVID-19 will impact physician career choices. More specifically, there is a need to conduct forensic medical evaluations for asylum seekers, as 89% of asylum seekers are granted asylum when they have a forensic medical evaluation compared to 37.5% of asylum seekers who do not have an accompanying forensic medical evaluation. Training medical students to help conduct these evaluations pro bono for clients offers a cost-effective solution to meet the need of a growing number of asylum seekers who need accompanying forensic medical evaluations. We hope to bring an additional perspective to how medical students can impact the lives of asylum seekers from around the world through their work in the United States.
Partners in Health Engage: An Opportunity for Student Action
Block B
2:50 – 3:40 pm PT
This hybrid session will include virtual and in-person participants.
Presented by
- Nick Seymour, Harvard
- Manbir Sandhu, UC Riverside
- Connie Tran, UCSC
- Ted Malpass, UCSC
- Seth Hannah, UC San Diego
- Emma Dobson, UC San Diego
- Monserrat Venegas, UC San Diego
- Sara Moadell, UC San Diego
Location
Social Sciences 2 Classrooms
Room 171
Recognizing the Impacts of Historic Trauma on Mental Health and Pathways to Healing for Native and Indigenous Communities presented by Amah Mutsun tribal members
Block B
2:50 – 3:40 pm PT
Surviving generations of brutality brought on by three waves of colonization, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of California are on a path towards healing. This talk will discuss intergenerational trauma, and how the Amah Mutsun community has come to recognize and heal from this trauma through wellness meetings and other cultural gatherings. The Amah Mutsun recognize that both perpetrators and victims of colonization must be healed for a better future, and healing must also include non-human kin. This discussion will offer several everyday practices of resistance by Tribal members to support health and better futures. This event is for people of all backgrounds and identities.
Presented by
- Alexii Sigona, UC Berkeley
- Valentin Lopez, Chairperson of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Location
Social Sciences 2 Classrooms
Room 167
Student Led Discussion on Plenary Themes from Ricky Bluthenthal
Block B
2:50 – 3:40 pm PT
This hybrid session will include virtual and in-person participants.
Presented by
- Primary Moderator: Kaylee Allyssa, UCSC
- Co-Moderator: Sam Ying, UC Riverside
Location
Social Sciences 2 Classrooms
Room 075