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Inaugural West Africa Symposium Unites Scientists to Tackle Infectious Disease

By Wanjiru Waruiru on October 17, 2024
The first International West Africa Symposium & Workshops on Infectious Disease, hosted by the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health, University of Sierra Leone and the Quantitative Biosciences Institute of the University of California, San Francisco, was held from July 29 to August 4, 2024, in...
Discussing response to zoonotic outbreaks in Uganda during a poster presentation. David Mugume (UCSF) and Angella Musewa (AFROHUN Uganda)*

UCSF is Advancing Pandemic Preparedness Through a One Health Approach

By Esbeydy Pardo, MPH on July 2, 2024
UCSF’s Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (CPPR) has been a key player in addressing health threats on a global scale by promoting the One Health approach, which integrates human, animal, and environmental health to mitigate disease risks. In recent efforts, CPPR has been enhancing...
  *Farah Massoud, MPH, speaking at a podium at CUGH 2024 Conference

Exploring Cross-Border Surveillance: CPPR Panel Discussion at CUGH

By Esbeydy Pardo on May 1, 2024
On March 10, 2024, the global health security team at UCSF’s Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (CPPR) participated in a panel discussion titled “The Importance of Cross-border Surveillance in Pandemic Prevention: Examples from Three Continents” at the Consortium of Universities for...

Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Hosts Health Equity Science Symposium

By Taytum Sanderbeck on February 9, 2024
UCSF’s Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response hosted a symposium on January 25 titled Health Equity: From Lens to Science to inspire collective action to promote better health equity practices and perspectives among researchers in academic settings and with community partners.
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Three Researchers win Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Investigator Seed Awards

By IGHS on June 28, 2023
The Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (CPPR) awarded three recipients the Investigator Seed Award to pursue a new research project that focuses on pandemic preparedness and response and promoting health equity. Each project addresses one or more of CPPR’s Pillars of Impact – readiness,...
Aureliano Davila-Valente, Betsy Rodriguez, and Alyssa Bercasio stand together smiling

San Francisco Promotores Referral Network wins APHA Community Health Workers Award

By Alyssa Bercasio on February 8, 2023
This year, The San Francisco Promotores Referral Network won the APHA Community Health Workers Award.
Devon Low records a video for the Vaccine Communications training

With the right online learning tools, global health training could achieve more with less

By Cameron Scott on January 4, 2023
As Internet technology has evolved, global health practitioners have taken advantage of it to complement in-person healthcare training.
Elizabeth Rojo speaking at a podium with a microphone

Reflections on the 2022 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo

December 13, 2022
Bringing our cultural humility training to APHA for a second year has been a wonderful reminder that there is interest in the topic and lots more to be done.
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“I Have to Ask”: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data

December 2, 2022
UCSF Pandemic Initiative for Equity and Action researchers published an article in the January/February 2023 volume of Journal of Public Health Management and Practice titled: “I Have to Ask”: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Within the Sa
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UPIEA Goes to the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Expo

November 3, 2022
.This year UPIEA is sending five teams to present at the APHA Annual Meeting and Expo in Boston on November 6 to 9, 2022. If you'll be there, please join them for one of the sessions listed below!

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