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Robert S. Sullivan Named Chairman of PCI Board of Directors

…strategic direction of PCI’s efforts working with families and communities in 15 countries to enhance health, end hunger and overcome hardship.

Bacteria Recruit Other Species with Long-Range Electrical Signals

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.

A Push to Inoculate Vaccination Disparity

…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…

Healthcare Services for Rural Sub-Saharan Africa Within Reach, According to New UC San Diego Study

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.

Pushing the Boundaries of Border Research

…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,…

Meet UC San Diego’s New Cohort of Changemaker Faculty Fellows

…cultivate a robust learning community and campus network of changemakers committed to addressing real-world challenges through their teaching. Launched in 2019, the program is a partnership between the Teaching + Learning Commons’ Engaged Teaching and Experiential Learning Hubs and the Center for Student Involvement, with the support of the Changemaker…

Mining Microbiomes

…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…

More Than a Haircut

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.

Local Cures for the Climate Crisis

…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.…

Communities of the Heart

The cells of the human heart form communities and those communities have a surprisingly sophisticated form of biochemical communication necessary for healthy heart development.