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San Francisco Promotores Referral Network wins APHA Community Health Workers Award

This year, The San Francisco Promotores Referral Network won the APHA Community Health Workers Award. This award is given at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting to recognize community health workers’ dedication to their work and the benefits they bring to their communities.

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

As Internet technology has evolved, global health practitioners have taken advantage of it to complement in-person healthcare training. But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, nearly all training programs went fully remote overnight – a dramatic shift that is unlikely to roll back much given the...

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

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. Elizabeth Rojo, Program Manager UCSF's Pandemic Initiative for Equity and Action 

“I Have to Ask”: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data

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 San...

UPIEA Goes to the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Expo

.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! UPIEA Presentation Schedule Schedule PDF

IGHS’ Luis Gutierrez-Mock receives UCSF Chancellor's Award for LGBTQI Leadership

On October 18, IGHS’ Luis Gutierrez-Mock received UCSF’s Chancellor's Award for LGBTQI Leadership. His dedication to advancing LGBTQI equity through local and statewide COVID-19 response, as well as his dedication to equity and inclusion throughout his career, make him an invaluable leader at UCSF...

Erick Goosby on PBS News Hour: Global leaders pledge billions to combat infectious diseases after COVID causes setbacks

"Alongside the United Nations General Assembly this week, a push for the fight against infectious diseases. Most countries signed on, but the U.K. is a holdout. As special correspondent Dr. Alok Patel reports, with governments’ budgets tightening, there is concern that life saving programs might...

Securing Global Fund Replenishment to avoid another Cassandra moment

Named after the mythical prophetess in Greek mythology who predicted the downfall of Troy but was not believed, the Cassandra complex has been widely ascribed to how many people warned about the threat of an impending pandemic well in advance of the first case of COVID-19, even as little was done...

Budget Agreement Sets California on New Course for Public Health, Equity

After a Decade of Disinvestment, California will Begin to Rebuild Local Public Health Capacity, Develop Pipeline of Future Public Health Workers to Deliver Health Equity SACRAMENTO, CA — California Can’t Wait (CACantWait), a coalition of public health officials, local leaders, frontline workers,...

PhD student Lucia Abascal models public health communications in Spanish – and wins

The most successful scientists can describe their research succinctly and without jargon, allowing them to convey to patients, research participants, journalists, philanthropists and policy makers why their work matters. The UCSF Grad Slam offers UCSF students the chance to begin learning how to...