We encourage you to check out the UCLA Newsroom’s Spring 2026 magizine article Building Civic Engagement, One Student at a Time by Robert Hubert. The articles spotlights UCLA professors “instilling insight, reason and passion in students who are answering the call to save” democracy here and abroad, including Center for Social Medicine & Humanities social medicine scholars Ippolytos Kalofonos, M.D., Ph.D, and Utpal Sandesara, M.D., Ph.D.