Announcements

Join us for a special talk with Alex Barnard, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU,  on Friday, October 14 from 1-2pm PST. Modern mental health systems face simultaneous pressures to expand treatment to new populations (often referred to as “medicalization”) and to control costs (through techniques of “rationalization”). Dr. Barnard will compare how these trends shape who […]

Join us for a special talk on Friday, September 23 2022 from 1:00-2:00pm PT presented by Robyn Spencer, PhD, on the Black Panther Party’s impact on the politics of health in the 1960 and examine how the Panthers theorized health and wellness and the organizing strategies and grassroots mobilization that resulted in the Panthers network of

Join us for a special talk on Thursday, September 15 2022 from 11am-12pm PT presented by William “Sandy” Darity Jr., PhD, Kayty Himmelstein, MD, and Claudia Fegan, MD, on the moral and economic case for reparations, their estimated impact on life expectancy, and the under-resourcing of Black-serving hospitals. To register for the event, click here.

Join us for a special talk on Friday, September 9 2022 from 1-2pm PT presented by Ryan McNeil, PhD on examining social-structural dynamics shaping the implementation and effectiveness of established and emerging responses to the evolving overdose crisis and their transferability to the United States.   To register for the event, click here.

Join us for a special talk on Friday, June 3rd 2022 from 1-2pm PT on the Crisis in El Salvador presented by María Betty Jovel Rivera, a specialist in administration systems for hydroponic and organoponic agriculture, and “Peter” Elvis Antonio Martinez Nataren, a rural youth educator and political organizer.     To register for the event, click

Dr. Mindy Fullilove, MD, LFAPA, Hon AIA, will be presenting a virtual talk titled “Character in Context: Some Observations from K-Drama”. Dr. Fullilove is a professor of urban policy and health at The New School in NYC and a social psychiatrist who redesigns and integrates US cities by race and class in collaboration with urban planners, artists, architects and

Professor Veronica Terriquez, Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, will be presenting a virtual talk on ” Healing, Self-Care, Youths’ Civic Leadership” on Friday, April 22nd from 1:00-2:00pm PST in Haines 279 at 3:00pm.     Please register for the event using this link.

Professor Randol Contreras, will be presenting a talk in sociology “Constructing Blackness: Doing Ethnography on the Color Line in Los Angeles Wednesday, March 30th in Haines 279 at 3:00pm.     For those unable to attend the talk in-person, please register for the event using this link.

The History of the Society for Neuroscience 1969-2019, researched and written by Marcia Meldrum, Joel Braslow and Rena Selya of the Center for Social Medicine, was published in December 2021.  The full text and photos, with links to associated videos, and a downloadable .pdf, are available at: https://www/sfn.org/about/history-of-sfn/1969-2019 

Stephen Seligman DMH will be participating in an educational webinar on psychoanalysis as a strong source of resistance on Friday, March 11 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm PST . To register for the talk, click here.