This system-wide conference on global health showcases the outstanding research, training and outreach taking place across the University of California and is an amazing opportunity for UC students, fellows, faculty, staff and visiting scholars to gather to share their work.
When
Sunday, April 22nd, 2018 | 8:00am - 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time
Location
The Price Center
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093
Cost
Free
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2018 CONFERENCE
Sunday, April 22, 2018
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Time |
Activity |
Location |
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8:00 – 9:00 |
Registration check-in & light breakfast |
Price Center Forum |
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9:00 – 9:15 |
Welcome and Chancellor’s opening remarks |
Ballroom West |
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9:15 – 10:20 |
Plenary I: Keynote: Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD |
Ballroom West |
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10:20 – 11:00 |
Plenary II: Moderator: Tim K. Mackey, MAS, PhD |
Ballroom West |
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11:00 – 11:15 |
Coffee break |
Ballroom West |
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11:15 – 12:00 |
Breakout sessions: Block A |
Locations vary |
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12:00 – 2:00 |
Lunch, poster session* & field experience/career expo |
Ballroom East & Price Center Forum Hallway |
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2:00 – 2:45 |
Breakout sessions: Block B |
Locations vary |
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2:45 – 3:45 |
Plenary III: Moderator: Kathi Anderson, MA, NCC |
Ballroom West |
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3:45 – 4:00 |
Closing remarks & acknowledgements |
Ballroom West |
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4:00 – 5:00 |
Closing reception |
Ballroom West |
Plenary I
Universal mental health coverage: realizing the Sustainable Development Goal aspiration
Keynote speaker
Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD
Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Vikram Patel is The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an adjunct professor and joint director of the Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries at the Public Health Foundation of India, honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (where he co-founded the Centre for Global Mental Health in 2008) and is a co-founder of Sangath, an Indian NGO which won the MacArthur Foundation’s International Prize for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2008 and the WHO Public Health Champion of India award in 2016. He is a fellow of the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences and has served on several WHO expert and Government of India committees. His work on the burden of mental disorders, their association with poverty and social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for the delivery of interventions for their prevention and treatment has been recognized by the Chalmers Medal (Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, UK), the Sarnat Medal (US National Academy of Medicine), an honorary doctorate from Georgetown University, the Pardes Humanitarian Prize (the Brain & Behaviour Research Foundation), an honorary OBE from the UK Government and the Posey Leadership Award (Austin College). He also works in the areas of child development and adolescent health. He was listed in TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential persons of the year in 2015.
Commentators
Janis H Jenkins, PhD
Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry
Director, Center for Global Mental Health
UC San Diego
As a psychological and medical anthropologist, Janis Jenkins has been Principal Investigator on a series of NIH-funded grants and is the recipient of awards from the Society for Psychological Anthropology, the Russell Sage Foundation, the School for Advanced Research, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and the Departments of Mental Health in California and Ohio. Her principal interests are culture and mental health, gender and ethnicity, adolescence, migration, violence and resilience. Her ethnographic research has been with Mexican immigrants, Salvadoran, Vietnamese and Iraqi Kurdish refugees, Puerto Rican migrants and other Latino, Euro-American, and Native American populations across North America.
Bruce Link, MS, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Sociology
UC Riverside
Bruce Link is a distinguished professor of public policy and sociology at the University of California, Riverside. His interests are centered on topics in psychiatric and social epidemiology as they bear on policy issues. He has written on the connection between socioeconomic status and health, homelessness, violence, stigma, and discrimination. With Jo Phelan, he has advanced the theory of social conditions as fundamental causes of disease. Currently he is conducting research on the life course origins of health inequalities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, the consequences of social stigma for the life chances of people who are subject to stigma, and on evaluating intervention efforts aimed at reducing mental illness stigma in children attending middle school.
Plenary II
The UCGHI Advocacy Initiative: Catalyzing student advocacy into action
Panelists
Anshal Gupta
Masters of Translational Medicine candidate
UCSF & UC Berkeley
Anshal is a creative at the intersection of technology and medicine. Leveraging a background in experimental design and community health, he hopes to introduce scalable, sustainable innovations that address issues faced by marginalized communities.
Mariati Messinger
Biology SB
UC Santa Cruz
Mariati volunteered with the Santa Cruz AIDS Project, assisting HIV-positive clients by conducting HIV testing and delivering educational presentations on social stigma and preventative methods. She conducted research for an effective drug treatment for Elephantiasis and African River Blindness and served as a reporter for the UCSC newspaper, City on a Hill Press. Mariati continues to devote her time and passion for global health as she initiates her own project, an online platform that will help serve and connect healthcare professionals with those in need worldwide.
Mili Patel
Human Biology and Society major
UCLA
Mili is a member of the Assessing Residents' Ci-Care (ARC) Medical Program through which she assess the quality of patient care delivered by UCLA Medical Center’s Pediatric resident physicians. She is a research associate for the student-run global health non-profit, F.I.S.H. (Fellowship for International Service and Health), which works to improve the lives of underserved populations in Maclovio Rojas, Mexico. Recently, Mili helped plan the 2018 Los Angeles Global Health Conference. Mili plans to pursue an MD/MPH or MD/MHA dual degree upon graduation from UCLA, first using her knowledge in a clinical setting and then transitioning to policy making in order to bridge the current gap between medical professionals and federal health policy makers.
Moderator
Tim K. Mackey, MAS, PhD
Associate Professor
UC San Diego School of Medicine
Tim Mackey is the director of the Global Health Policy Institute, an associate professor of Anesthesiology and Global Public Health and an investigator at the San Diego Center for Patient Safety at UC San Diego. His work focuses on a broad array of multidisciplinary topics in domestic and global public health research. This includes cross-cutting research and publications in disciplines of public health, medicine, international relations, public policy, law, technology, economics and intellectual property, technology environmental health, eHealth, crime, and global governance.
Plenary III
Refugee and immigrant health: From research to policy and practice
Fatima Karaki, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, Director, Refugee and Asylum seeker Health Initiative
UCSF
Fatima Karaki is the founder and director of the Refugee and Asylum seeker Health Initiative (RAHI) at UCSF, which aims to foster academic activity, research, education, and community awareness in refugee health. Her academic and clinical interest is in refugee and asylum seeker health, with a focus on the Syrian refugee crisis in the Middle East. She is a founding member of the North American Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers. She is a member of the UCSF Global Health Sciences Faculty Affiliation Program and the Global Health Core.
Liliana Osorio, MPH
Deputy Director, Health Initiatives of the Americas
UC Berkeley
Since joining Health Initiatives of the Americas in 2002, Liliana Osorio has led and collaborated on several projects, including the coordination of the annual Binational Health Week, one of the largest mobilization efforts in the Americas to improve the wellbeing of Latino immigrants. She has coordinated and implemented several other projects including the Binational Policy Forum on Migration and Public Health, the Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health, the Research Program in Migration and Health, and the Binational Promotores Program. She has also managed several statewide campaigns in California targeting Spanish-speaking Latinos, including campaigns to increase influenza vaccinations, enroll in Covered California and to prevent the spread of Zika.
Adam Richards, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research
UCLA
Adam Richard applies his training in internal medicine, epidemiology and health services to develop measurement tools and evidence-based interventions to improve health equity through clinical and population-based participatory research. International areas of work include human resource development, malaria elimination and drug resistance, undernutrition, viral hepatitis, non-communicable disease and health information systems that have quantified population-level exposure to human rights violations and their association with mortality, morbidity and specific health outcomes. Adam has been a champion of health in Myanmar since 1992, and joined Community Partners International in 2001. Adam is board certified in internal medicine, and graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health before completing his postgraduate training in the Social Internal Medicine Program at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the South Bronx.
Michael Rodriguez, MD, MPH
Professor and vice chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine
UCLA
Michael A. Rodriguez is a professor and vice chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is also director of the UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America and co-director of the Center of Expertise on Migration and Health. His research activities include ethnic/racial health disparities, immigration, food insecurity, violence prevention and development of research capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
Moderator
Kathi Anderson, MA, NCC
Executive Director, Board President, Survivors of Torture, International
In 1997, Kathi co-founded Survivors of Torture, International. Her previous employment includes: Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice, Evaluator at Grossmont Hospital, Adjunct Faculty Member at the College of Idaho’s Graduate Program, Director of Elks Hospital’s Occupational and Rehabilitation Department and Refugee Resettlement Case Worker for the International Rescue Committee. As a volunteer, she currently serves on the advisory boards of University of the Pacific’s School of International Studies and San Diego State University’s School of Social Work. Previously, she served on the board of directors for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service as well as Amnesty International USA. She also founded Lutheran Social Services of Idaho.
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Watch plenary sessions
Universal Mental Health Coverage
Catalyzing Student Advocacy Into Action
Block A - 11:15am til 12pm
Challenges and opportunities for agriculture in the 21st century in the face of climate extremes
Agriculture is intrinsically connected to regional climate, yet in the face of ongoing and future climate extremes, challenges emerge in maintaining productivity and a sustainable balance among the environment and economy. This interactive workshop will provide interdisciplinary information applicable to issues society is expected to face in the coming century. Case studies will link planetary health and climate change, and groups will apply solutions-focused thinking to create adaptation pathways across themes, regions, and food systems.
Presented by:
Jennifer Vanos, UC San Diego
Woutrina Smith, UC Davis
Federico Castillo, UC Berkeley
Located in:
Ballroom West
Teaching ethics in global health
This session will summarize the literature surrounding GH ethics, share teaching models, and address the relationship between teaching ethics, cultural humility, and structural competency. We will actively engage participants by soliciting examples of ethical conundrums and the consequences of moral distress. In addition, we will share specific resources and best practices for managing moral distress in our learners. The breakout format will include a combination of presentations, case reviews, and small and large groups discussion.
Presented by:
Madhavi Dandu, UCSF
Alden Blair, UCSF
Located in:
Bear Room
Developing international partnerships for collaborative gender equity research and policymaking in India
This breakout session highlights research from International partnerships of the UCSD School of Medicine's Center on Gender Equity and Health on issues of gender equity and health, including impact-driven, collaborative dissemination, and maintenance of equitable and mutually beneficial relationships. It provides an opportunity to learn about how building and leveraging strategic partnerships can push the frontier of gender equity and health research, and serve to improve the “take-up” of research by directly informing policymaking.
Presented by:
Amruta Trivedi, UC San Diego
Anita Raj, UC San Diego
Jennifer Yore, UC San Diego
Located in:
Earl Warren College Room
Adapting the Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings (ARCHES) intervention from the US context to Bangladesh, Kenya and Mexico
This session will share the efforts by researchers at UCSD's Center on Gender Equity and Health to adapt and assess the Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings (ARCHES) model in Bangladesh, Kenya, and Mexico, in collaboration with local health organizations. These studies aim to provide evidence for health systems in low and middle-income countries to implement the ARCHES intervention, with the ultimate goal of improving the health of vulnerable family planning clients experiencing reproductive coercion.
Presented by:
Ruvani W Fonseka, UC San Diego
Jasmine Uysal, UC San Diego
Argentina E Servin, UC San Diego
Located in:
Eleanor Roosevelt College Room
Local and international research on neurotoxicity of pesticides in children and adults living in rural populations: Pedro Moncayo County, Ecuador and Imperial County, CA
Certain pesticides have been found to increase the risk of Parkinson disease (PD) in adults, or decrease cognitive/neurobehavioral abilities of children. We will discuss our longitudinal NIH-funded projects in Ecuador about pesticide exposures in relation to child/adolescent development and mental health (ESPINA study). We will also discuss our ongoing pilot study in the agricultural Imperial County, CA, investigating associations between exposures to commonly applied pesticides and parkinsonian signs and symptoms among 55-70 year-old Latino residents.
Presented by:
Jose Ricardo Suarez, UC San Diego
Harvey Checkoway, UC San Diego
Located in:
Governance Chambers
Complications and contradictions in community-based participatory research: An interactive panel discussion
This session will begin with a brief introduction to theories in social medicine that inform community-based participatory research. Participants will have the opportunity to apply these concepts during a simulated community meeting. Teams will be assigned various roles and engage with the complex issues surrounding a controversial NGO-directed health intervention. The session will end with a discussion of the unexpected tensions that may arise in CBPR and the ethical dilemmas such tensions may create.
Presented by:
Morgen A Chalmiers, UC San Diego
Griffin A Tyree, UC San Diego
Naeemah Munir, UC San Diego
Located in:
Green Table Room
Immigration policy as a social determinant of health: From national policy to local implications for immigrant health
The rise in prominence and vehemence of anti-immigrant political sentiments promises to worsen health and threaten the lives of immigrants and populations of color more broadly. This session will provide a vital discussion of how the U.S. immigration policy environment is affecting health nationally and locally. We begin with an overview of how health disparities widen in an anti-immigrant political environment, then provide specific examples of how national policies are affecting immigrant communities in California.
Presented by:
Brittany N Morey, UC Riverside
Andrea Lopez, UC Merced
Dinorah Lillie Sanchez, UC San Diego
Located in:
John Muir Room
Real world challenges of health programs incorporating women’s empowerment or masculinities components
To promote gender equity, some health programs incorporate female empowerment or male engagement components. However, because they often avoid confronting traditional patriarchal norms and institutions, these programs do not necessarily create the conditions for critical consciousness and gender transformation. In this interactive session, we will examine three ongoing empowerment or masculinity programs--in South Africa, Nigeria and Rwanda--which are facing major challenges. Then we will brainstorm with the audience on how to increase their societal impact.
Presented by:
Paula Tavrow, UCLA
Dallas Swendeman, UCLA
Ndola Prata, UC Berkeley
Located in:
Red Shoe Room
Promoting mental health for global youth
This panel will discuss multidisciplinary social sciences, neurosciences, mobile technology and psychiatric research approaches to address mental health in adolescents affected by adversity in diverse, global low-resource settings. The presentations will highlight the importance of including parents, teachers and service providers along with the youth in the research, to promote mental health of these adolescents.
Presented by:
Jyoti Mishra, UC San Diego
Janis H Jenkins, UC San Diego
David Grelotti, UC San Diego
Located in:
Thurgood Marshall College Room
Block B - 2pm til 2:45pm
The global public health importance of preventing campus-based sexual assault and dating violence
Sexual assault (SA) is pervasive on college/university campuses worldwide, and associated with many negative health outcomes. Student survivors tend to have lower grade point averages and are more likely to transfer or drop out of school altogether, relative to students not assaulted. During this discussion we will review global prevalence of SA on campuses, discuss a public health approach to prevention and identify challenges and solutions for measuring and addressing campus-based violence.
Presented by:
Jennifer Wagman, UC San Diego
Rebecca Fielding-Miller, UC San Diego
Nancy Wahlig, UC San Diego
Located in:
Ballroom West
Rapid population growth and climate change in the Sahel: what is the role of women's empowerment? What can be done to lessen the impacts on health?
The Sahel is subject to uniquely rapid population growth - putting pressure on scarce resources. The challenge to meet the basic needs of a rapidly growing population is compounded by the impacts of climate change. This session examines the implications of a business as usual scenario versus what is achievable with major investments in empowering girls and women and agriculture. Participants will brainstorm opportunities for multidisciplinary solutions, including family planning and food security.
Presented by:
Alisha Graves, UC Berkeley
David Lopez-Carr, UC Santa Barbara
Located in:
Bear Room
Building and maintaining global research networks for physical activity: Lessons learned and opportunities for collaboration
UC San Diego faculty have been leaders in organizing global research collaborations around physical activity and health, notably the IPEN and GUIA studies, Lancet Series on Physical Activity and Global Health, and the Global Observatory for Physical Activity (GoPA!). In this session we review how this happened and look towards building future collaborations across the UC System and world.
Presented by:
Michael Pratt, UC San Diego
Jim Sallis, UC San Diego
Elva Arredondo, UC San Diego
Located in:
Earl Warren College Room
Adolescent pregnancy and healthcare in context: a bi-national case study
Through this interactive workshop, participants will use a case study of a bi-national project in California and Mexico to explore the healthcare experiences of pregnant and parenting adolescents, their access to contraception and information, and the role of migration in their families and communities. Splitting into small groups, we will develop recommendations for healthcare providers, community-based organizations, and policymakers in California and Mexico.
Presented by:
Mara J Decker, UCSF
Felipe Rodriguez, UCSF
Noelle Pineda, UC Berkeley
Located in:
Eleanor Roosevelt College Room
Of two worlds: How can non-research trainees work with research faculty to advance global health?
Trainees may face challenges pitching their non-research skills and career goals to research faculty. Conversely, research faculty may not know how to integrate trainees in their research programs, turning down motivated students. In this interactive session, we will address this challenge from the perspectives of both the faculty and the trainees by using cases from UCSF’s Fellowship in Global Mental Health, which builds on a research infrastructure in rural Nepal to incorporate non-research trainees.
Presented by:
Bibhav Acharya, UCSF
Pragya Rimal, UCSF
Viet Nguyen, UCSF
Located in:
Governance Chambers
One health in action: The global health security agenda
This session will walk attendees through a brief overview of what the GHSA is and how the USAID/PREDICT project engages with the GHSA and One Health Platforms nationally and globally. Participants will have an opportunity to work in breakout groups, representing various stakeholder groups while they move through an exercise designed to stimulate thought on how such a platform might prioritize zoonotic diseases in any given country.
Presented by:
David Wolking, UC Davis
Jennifer Lane, UC Davis
Brian Bird, UC Davis
Located in:
Green Table Room
Collaborating for health equity in the Americas
Throughout the Americas, health inequities persist at alarming rates. An intersectoral Network has emerged to identify and implement policy and program solutions to promote health equity in the Americas. This session will explore the processes and strategies used to engage this Network of leaders in a collaborative way. Session participants will work in 2 groups to discuss policies/programs affecting two Network focus areas: 1) protections against discrimination; and 2) gender equality legislation and policies.
Presented by:
Michael Rodriguez, UCLA
Jody Heymann, UCLA
Located in:
John Muir Room
Building health justice in underserved communities: local answers to global questions
A key to addressing health disparities is developing a refined understanding of how local communities define health, where they locate the roots of good health, and how they use embodied knowledges to determine appropriate pathways to health equity. We bring together case studies demonstrating the diversity of health justice work centered on local communities’ frameworks and expressed needs, opening discussion about the important distinctions marginalized communities make when addressing health disparities most meaningful to them.
Presented by:
Sarah Wikle, UC Santa Cruz
Theresa Atanoa, UC Santa Cruz
Cierra Sherman, UC Santa Cruz
Located in:
Red Shoe Room
Exploring improvements to the health-related United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals: An interactive workshop
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a 21st century governance framework to advance sustainable human development. SDG Goal 3 specifically focuses on improving human health. This student-led breakout session will critically examine the SDGs through an interactive workshop design where attendees will collaboratively work on policy approaches to enhance SDG health-related targets and indicators. Session attendees will breakout into groups with workshop instructions and also present their proposals which will be voted on electronically.
Presented by:
Timothy K Mackey, UC San Diego
William Tuon, UC San Diego
Alexis Burnstan, UC San Diego
Located in:
Thurgood Marshall College Room
From health policy to nutrition, to mental health and technology, UC Global Health Day 2018 poster presentations will showcase the work of students and faculty working on finding solutions to the world’s most pressing global health challenges.
This year, UC San Diego global health majors will present their senior capstone projects during the poster session.
| Title | Name | Campus |
|---|---|---|
| Stigma and Mental Health Concerns of Young People Living with HIV/AIDS in Mwanza, Tanzania | Sahil Aggarwal | UC Irvine |
| Contraception Use and Gender Equitable Attitudes Amongst Men in Western Kenya | Christopher Ahlbach | UC San Francisco |
| Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing Healthcare among Syrian Refugees at Burj el-Barajneh Refugee Camp in Beirut, Lebanon | Ola Alani | UC San Francisco |
| Health needs and priorities of Syrian refugees in camp and urban settings in Jordan: perspectives of refugees and health care providers | Tala Al-Rousan | UC San Diego |
| Committing Our Careers to Women’s Health: The Global Health Experience in the Fellowship in Family Planning | Sarah Averbach | UC San Diego |
| Exclusive breastfeeding outcomes among women who experienced mistreatment during facility based delivery in Uttar Pradesh, India | Sankari Ayyaluru | UC San Francisco |
| Rx One Health: Training As Future Global Health Professionals To Develop Solutions For Healthier Populations | June Barrera | UC Davis |
| Developing sustainable cervical cancer screening in Mwanza, Tanzania: Implementation of a Screen-and-Treat Model | Megan Bernstein | UC Irvine |
| Cybergirl Rwanda: Using human-centered design to develop digital sexual health and employment tools. | Megan Bontempo | UC Berkeley |
| High consumption of packaged foods and sugar-sweetened beverages and the association with stunted growth among 24-month old children in rural and semi-rural Cambodia | Akemi Brown | UC San Francisco |
| Staying connected: Measuring quality of life in older people living with HIV in the Coachella Valley | Brandon Brown | UC Riverside |
| A Broad Academic Partnership to Support Pediatric and Family Medicine Post-Graduate Medical Education in Mozambique | William Buck | UC Los Angeles |
| Effect of gender roles on fathers’ attitudes and breastfeeding practices | Diana Bueno Gutierrez | UC Davis |
| Couple Communication and Family Planning Use Among Married Adolescent Girls in Dosso, Niger | Sneha Challa | UC San Diego |
| Assessing the successful implementation of the Surgical Management and Reconstructive Training (SMART) course in Nepal: Competency test data from two consecutive years. | Sravya Challa | UC San Francisco |
| Citizen Science GIS: Collaborating with Communities to Investigate Marine Debris in Hopkins, Belize | Michelle Chang | UC Berkeley |
| Attitudes and Practices of Adult Population Towards Blood Donation in Soroti, Eastern Uganda: A Qualitative Study | Laura Checkley | UC San Francisco |
| The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Healthcare Access Among Asian Pacific Islander Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency | Suraj Dhanjani | UC Los Angeles |
| Association of unintended pregnancy with infant deaths among women in Nigeria Demographic Health Survey 2013 | Anvita Dixit | UC San Diego |
| Perceptions of foreign medical aid among Honduran healthcare providers: a qualitative study | Kara Faktor | UC Los Angeles |
| One Health Nicaragua: Using Youth Education to Promote Participation in the Development of Community Health Practices | Lindsey Garcia | UC Davis |
| Changing patterns of utilization in a free pediatric clinic in Roatán, Honduras | Sean Gonzales | UC Berkeley |
| Improving Maternal Care: The Development of Birthing Centers in Nepal | Seang Keomanee | UC Davis |
| Overcoming Stigma and Other Challenges in Population-Based Psychiatric Epidemiology Studies | Young Shin Kim | UC San Francisco |
| Scholarly Activities for Medical Students on Short-term Global Health Trips | Christina Kinnevey | UC San Francisco |
| The Feasibility of Implementing Improved Stoves to Mitigate COPD in Communities of the Guatemalan Highlands | Brent Klapthor | UC San Francisco |
| A Psychometric Scoring Methodology to Identify Gaps in Health-based Gender Equality and Empowerment Measures | Cassidy Koo | UC San Diego |
| Understanding Infant Feeding in Roatán, Honduras: A Cross-Section Survey of Infants 0-6 months | Kristiana Lehn | UC Davis |
| DREAMer’s Forced Return Migration: Policy analysis and recommendations to ensure equitable healthcare access | Vanessa Lopez | UC San Diego |
| Exploring how immigration policy impacts the health and well-being of children in a rural setting from the perspectives from those serving them | Andrea Lopez | UC Merced |
| Knights Landing Environmental Health Risk Assessment Survey: The Power of Community-Based Participatory Research | Sevana Manukian | UC Davis |
| Decomposition of Maternal Education and Wealth Inequalities in Child Mortality and Access to Safe Water and Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) in Ethiopia | Sara McElroy | UC San Diego |
| Lessons Learned from International Partners: An Evaluation of the UCLA Department of Medicine Global Health Elective in Malawi | Rachel Mernoff | UC Los Angeles |
| Strengthening Pediatric Critical Care Capacity in the Peruvian Amazon | Kiran Mitha | UC Los Angeles |
| The Rheumatic Heart Disease Healthcare Paradox: Bahia, Brazil | Daniel Morberg | UC Berkeley |
| Building Stronger Foundations: Utilizing Bilateral Exchange to Improve Global Health (GH) Training | Charles Newcomer | UC Los Angeles |
| Early Childhood and Concurrent Factors associated with Obesity at age 8 in Vietnamese children in the Young Lives Cohort Study | Tuyen Nguyen | UC San Francisco |
| Innovative Learning Technology Initiative for Global Health Education | Oladele Ogunseitan | UC Irvine |
| Assessing knowledge of cervical cancer among health care students in Mwanza, Tanzania | Priya Patel | UC Irvine |
| Individual, Partner, and Partnership Characteristics Associated with Trust within Casual Partnerships Reported by HIV-Negative Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in Tijuana, Mexico | Rudy Patrick | UC San Diego |
| Who is a Migrant? Conceptualizing Mobility when Studying Migrant's Health | Carlos Rivera | UC San Diego |
| Public Healthcare Systems and Diabetes Prevention Among People of Mexican Origin: The PRuDENTE (Diabetes Prevention via Exercise, Nutrition and Treatment) Initiative of Mexico City. | Luis Rodriguez | UC San Francisco |
| Health without borders: Creating partnerships to Address Rural Mexican Migrants' Healthcare Services Needs | Katheryn Rodriguez | UC Riverside |
| GAIN Initiative: Implementation of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist in Malawi | Sharon Rose | UC San Francisco |
| Report on comprehensive observation of Village Health, Sanitation and Nutrition day (VHSND) in Bihar, India. | Ria Saha | UC San Francisco |
| Household Food Insecurity is a Mediator of the Association between Internalized Stigma and Opportunistic Infections among HIV-infected Women in Rural India | Sanghyuk Shin | UC Irvine |
| Transporting high quality DNA/RNA from geographically isolated LMICs: Esophageal tumors successfully preserved from Tanzania to San Francisco | Jordyn Silverstein | UC San Francisco |
| Brucellosis surveillance at the human-animal interface in Tanzania: A One Health Approach | Woutrina Smith | UC Davis |
| Role of Dexmedetomidine on Postoperative Recovery and Preoperative Narcotic Consumption in Third World Mission Trips for Cleft Palate and Cleft Lip Repair | Amode Tembhekar | UC Davis |
| Evaluation Of Moringa Oleifera As Nutritional Rehabilitation For Malnutrition | Emily Tomich | UC Irvine |
| Interdisciplinary Education in the Global Health Sciences: A Two-Semester Assessment of a One Health Pilot Undergraduate Course at UC Berkeley | Michelle Tong | UC Berkeley |
| Urban Food Security and Nutritional Challenges in West Africa: Evidence from Accra, Ghana | Cascade Tuholske | UC Santa Barbara |
| Living neglected at both side of the U.S.-Mexico border: Chagas disease among Yucatecan immigrants in South California | Alba Valdez Tah | UC Irvine |
| “I stood firm where I place my body”: A case study in understanding body, self and mental health in contemporary Chinese society | Hua Wu | UC San Diego |
| The Correlation of Tobacco and Alcohol Use with Mental Health of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans | Hong-Ho Yang | UC Los Angeles |
| Strategic Plans to Implement Point-of-Care Testing for Patients with Infectious Diseases and Acute Myocardial Infarction in Central Vietnam | Amanullah Zadran | UC Davis |
| Risk Factors of Childhood Tooth Decay and Malnutrition in Nepal | Neha Zahid | UC Berkeley |
| Empowering Knowledge for Individual Well-Being: The C.R.A.F.T. Method of Health Education | Cynthia Zarate | UC Los Angeles |
UC San Diego global health capstone projects
| Title | Name |
|---|---|
| Pakistani Mental Health: The "Paagal" Paradigm | Nayab Alam |
| Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Asian American College Students: The Call to Restructure Culturally Competent Counseling and Psychological Services | Maricris Arandia |
| Intergenerational Trauma Transmission of Salvadoran Migrant Women On To Their First and Second Generation in the United States | Jazlyn Y. Barrientos |
| Stigma Fuels the Cancer of the Streets: A Critical Analysis of How The United States’ Healthcare System is Failing to Respond to Treatment for Addiction | Tess Burney |
| Climate Change and the United States Geriatric Healthcare System | Alexis Burnstan |
| Disordered Eating Prevention: Developing a Framework for Transfeminine Individuals | Lucero Camarena |
| PHC and Me: A Relationship between Chinese Immigrant Status and Health Behaviors | Stella Hoi Yu Chin |
| “Militarism, Guns, and Biological Agents of War:” An Analysis of Warfare’s Effect on Rural Health | Ryann-Kai Corpuz |
| Improving efficacy of drug-based interventions for tuberculosis: strategies for disease management for homeless individuals in California | Chandra Couzens |
| A Site Analysis Approach: How Barrio Logan’s Built Environment Affects the Health of its Community | Kristiana Cuevas |
| Understanding our Actions: Addressing Climate Change and Food Insecurity in India | Rebecca Czerny |
| An Analysis of Mental Health Risk Factors and Behaviors Among Immigrant Women from Southern India and the Philippines | Christina Garibaldi |
| Sexual Exploitation and HIV risk among Female Sex Workers in Tijuana Mexico | Rubeen Gaurdado |
| “Urban Poverty Across the World”: A Comparison of Housing Inequalities and their effects on health of vulnerable populations of Cape Town, South Africa and Tijuana, Mexico | Yesenia González-Zavala |
| Cultural Competency and Facilitating the Death Conversation in End-of-Life Care | Michelle Gregorio |
| The Untold Story of Women’s Health in the Northeast Region of India: A Study of Health Inequalities and their Origins. | Heather Helvink |
| Lowering the colorectal cancer mortality rate among Chinese American immigrants in the US through improving screening access and education | Erica Ho |
| Lost Generation: A Calling for International Stakeholders to Invest More Resources in the Mental Health of Civil War Youth | Negin Javaherchian |
| Analyzing Barriers to Wellness for the Syrian Refugee Population within San Diego County | Summer Ali Kanj |
| Obesity is No Weigh to Live: The Global Epidemic that is Taking Over the Lives of People in Latin America | Michelle Josefina Keung |
| Examining Oral Health Disparities in Minority Children in America | Brittany Kim |
| Veggie Chips and Coca-colonization: Driving Forces of the Global Obesity Epidemic | Manali Kulkarni |
| "Making the Familiar Strange:" Unexpected Consequences and Unforeseen Circumstances among Unsolicited Health Interventions in Rural South India | Lucien LaFerr |
| Global Health with an Economic Incentive: A Criticism of Health Technology in Post-Colonial Africa | Jacob Lewis |
| Stranded: Medical Deserts and Swamps Exacerbate Barriers to Health Among Mobile Populations in the San Diego Border Region | Nicholas Locke |
| Let the children play: Increasing time-spent playing through improved access to high-quality outdoor play spaces and the benefits for child health | Vanessa Lopez |
| Children Belong In Families – Reimagining the U.S. Foster Care System | Alice Lu |
| The Influence of Depersonalization and Social Exclusion on the Health of Homeless Persons in the United States | Amanda Monique Magana |
| “Whose Development Is It Anyways?” An Analysis of Extra-Local Influence on Non-Communicable Diseases in the Solomon Islands | Slade Mahoney |
| Socio-Economic and Health Disparities of Coal Miner Families in Rural Appalachia | Darla Mia Martinez |
| Identifying Factors the Influence Family Planning Practices in Rural India | Jensen Marley McLeod |
| Pushing for Environmental Justice in Global Health | Amarachi Metu |
| “ZIP Codes Matter”: Understanding the Geographic Factors that Impact Health in San Diego County | Mania Mgdsyan |
| Defining “Disorder” How Cultural and Self Concepts Affect Eating Pathology and Experience | Shirelle Mizrahi |
| Social Support and Norms in Relation to the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescent Girls in West Africa | Alice Moylan |
| The Embodiment of Healing Among Indigenous People: Understanding Different Forms of Healing | Andrew Namkung |
| The Persistence of Contemporary Child Prostitution in Thailand: A Long-lasting Consequence of Global Capitalism | Carol Uyen Nguyen |
| "Health Begins with Maternal Health" | Hanvit Oh |
| “Roll With The Punches:" An Analysis on the Decline of Mental Health Among Amateur and Professional Athletes in the U.S. | Ginikachi Olelewe |
| The sun rises for everybody: The Long Lived Struggle of Mapuche People for Mental Health Care In Inequitable Health Care Systems in Chile | Lauren Olson |
| Why do we remain in a global water crisis? | Elizabeth Pairis |
| Protect Mothers At All Costs: How Socio-Economic and Cultural Disparities Contribute to the Growing Rates of Maternal Mortality in Rural South India | Melissa Palafox |
| Highly Addictive, Highly Effective; A Look Inside The Killer Opioid Epidemic | Shani Park |
| Heat Waves, Climate Change, and Health in India | Thi Phan |
| Living with Diabetes As a Mexican Deportee: The Difficulty Immigrants Face to Obtain Proper Healthcare and Social Support | Breanna Jahaira Reyes |
| Walking to the Finish Line: Polio Eradication and the Remaining Hurdles | Omar Sajjad |
| The Devastating Effects of Climate Change and Displacement Among Asia and Remote Islands | Branden Salgado |
| Life in Limbo: A Literary Analysis of Somali Refugee Camps, Mental Health, and Refugee Policy | Cassidy Shapiro |
| Performance over Health: Eating Disorders and Co-Morbidities among Collegiate Student Athletes | Stephanie Sin |
| Diving into Sri Lanka to analyze the Association between Climate Patterns and Mosquito Borne Diseases | Mona Singh |
| "The Monsters That Follow": The Long-Term Consequences of Refugee Children Exposed to Various Forms of Psychological Trauma. | Thomas Skaggs |
| Black Mental Wellness: Equity For Lives That Matter | Saraka Smith |
| Would you like a side of sweet and sour sauce with that? An Examination of the Growing Obesity Pandemic in Asian Nations | Melissa Vajanaphanich |
| Low Incidence, High Mortality: Women with Breast Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa | Cara Valenti |
| Understanding Antibiotic Resistance & the Consequences of Antibiotic Resistance in Primary Care | Kirstine Walker |
| The Future of US Healthcare | Wayne Wefel |
| Food insecurity, vulnerability and susceptibility to HIV/AIDS | Jing Yu Weng |
| Refugees Escaping Syria: Structural Violence and its Active Limitation of Women’s Health | Vijit Yadav |
| Growing Apples in the Big Apple: Investing in Urban Community Gardening to Mitigate Climate Change-Related Food Insecurity | Alana Young |
| Not By Biology Alone: An Analysis of Social Determinants of Health Amidst the Syrian War | Lena Zinner |
