Announcements

This Saturday, February 11 at Village Well & Books in Culver City, Dr. Elizabeth Barnert will read from her inspiring new book REUNION: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador. Our Center’s Director Dr. Philippe Bourgois will read his photo-ethnographic testimony in the book while trapped in a scorched earth campaign during the 1981 Salvadoran […]

Please join us on Friday, February 11 at 1-2pm via Zoom. Professor Khiara M. Bridges will explore the Court’s decision in Dobbs to overturn Roe v. Wade. It will analyze the racial dimensions of the reversal the Roe as well as set abortion rights within the larger context of the reproductive justice framework. To register

Please join us for a webinar presented by Enrico Castillo, MD, MSHPM on Friday, January 27 at 1:00pm PT via Zoom. Dr. Castillo’s talk will focus on homelessness as a structural problem with structural solutions, not a mental health problem with mental health treatment solutions. He will highlight what works, drawing on lessons from here and abroad, and

Please join us for a webinar presented by Marie Jauffret-Roustide, PhD, Sterling Johnson, JD, MA, and Morgan Medlock, MD, MPH, MDiv on Thursday, January 19 at 11:00am PT via Zoom. During this Lancet Webinar, the panel of expert speakers will highlight the need to shift away from a narrow focus on individualized overdose risk to

Please join us for a hybrid event on Friday, January 13 from 1:00-2:00pm PT via Zoom or at CHS 23-105. Dr. Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD, is an acclaimed physician, psychiatrist, and sociologist from Vanderbilt University who speaks and writes on a range of topics including guns, gun violence, and race, gender, and social justice in healthcare.

Please join us for a webinar on Friday, December 9 at 1:00-2:00pm PT. Dr. Sue Estroff from UNC Chapel Hill will discuss the lessons learned from 4 decades of developing social medicine curriculum and teaching methods. A Q&A discussion to follow presentation. To register for the talk, click here. 

Please join us for a webinar on Thursday, November 17 at 11am-12pm PT/ 2-3pm ET. Jacob M. Grumbach, PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington; Stella Safo, MD, MPH, HIV Primary Care Physician, Mt. Sinai, and Founder, CEO Just Equity for Health; and Robert Weissman, JD, President of Public Citizen, will discuss the

Please join us for a webinar on Friday, November 4 from 1-2pm PT. Dr. Nev Jones from University of Pittsburgh will explore the directions structural competency writings and pedagogical projects have and have not taken (so far). A Q&A discussion to follow with UCLA faculty Dr. Helena Hansen, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Enrico Castillo for his appointment as Associate Vice Chair for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry!

Please join us for a webinar on Thursday, October 20 at 11am-12pm PT/ 2-3pm ET.Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Nikolas Bowie, JD, PhD, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; and Linda Prine, MD, reproductive rights activist and Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School