June 15, 2017
…research to advance human health The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced that Rachel Dutton and Elizabeth Villa, researchers in UC San Diego’s Division of Biological Sciences, have been selected as Pew scholars in biomedical sciences. Selected as part of a group of 22 exceptional early-career researchers, Dutton and Villa each…
February 14, 2013
A new paper published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization has determined that providing rural sub-Saharan Africans a close-to-client health system by paid, full-time community health workers by 2015 would cost $2.6 billion per year, or just $6.86 per person covered by the program.
August 8, 2016
…strategic direction of PCI’s efforts working with families and communities in 15 countries to enhance health, end hunger and overcome hardship.
January 12, 2017
Biologists at UC San Diego who recently found that bacteria resolve social conflicts within their communities and communicate with one another like neurons in the brain have discovered another human-like trait in these apparently not-so-simple, single-celled creatures.
May 13, 2021
…Photo by Erik Jepsen/University Communications. A Push to Inoculate Vaccination Disparity New UC San Diego biologist endeavors to communicate the safety and life-saving importance of COVID-19 vaccination in underserved communities A first-generation university student and the son of Mexican immigrants, Assistant Professor Fabian Rivera-Chávez was born and raised in Northern…
February 26, 2024
Each month, a group of University of California San Diego School of Medicine students can be found at Freshly Faded Barber + Shop in San Diego’s North Park community conducting blood pressure screenings as a complement to the haircuts and shaves that the Black-owned barbershop specializes in.
February 20, 2020
…pressing global challenges Border communities—those towns and cities that share a boundary with another region—are often critical passageways for economic prosperity: the movement of vehicles, goods and workers through these communities can impact the commerce of an entire city, state or nation. And these border communities are busy. In 2018,…
October 22, 2020
…Book and event seek community remedies for intertwined issues of climate change, public health and social justice The open-access book “Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility”—which casts global climate change as a public-health crisis—was never meant to just sit on a shelf or in a hard drive.…
July 16, 2020
…scaled in many diverse community health settings—particularly those with fewer resources. Borsika Rabin trained as a pharmacist and then as a public health researcher working across diverse populations, settings and health topics. Like Stadnick, she found that many programs that are effective in preventing cancer in high-resource settings will not…
October 29, 2015
…that these unique microbial communities — called microbiomes — can greatly influence human and environmental health. The human gut microbiome alone has now been linked to allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, obesity and many other conditions. To advance studies of microbiomes found in the gut and everywhere else on earth, Chancellor…
