Announcements

Eraka Bath, MD and Sarah Godoy, MSW will be participating in an educational webinar that will discuss the process of using a community-engaged approach to develop a digital health intervention for sexual health education on Friday, February 11 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm PST . To register for the talk, click here.  

The National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities will be held in a virtual/in-person format from Saturday, April 30th to Sunday, May 1st, 2022. Click here for more information.   For Abstract Submissions, click here.    

Dr. Bruce Link, Professor of Public Policy & Sociology at University of California Riverside, will be participating in an educational webinar on the fundamental cause theory on Friday, January 28 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm PST . To register for the talk, click here  

Check out this new article published in UCLA Health by Jocelyn Apodaca Schlossberg that highlights our faculty member Dr. Enrico Castillo‘s incredible work on homelessness and mental health treatment. 

Professor Philippe Bourgois will be participating in an educational webinar on Monday, December 6 from 10:00am to 11:30am PST. To register for the talk, click here.   

Please join us for a free, educational webinar on Friday, December 3rd at 1-2pm PT with Dr. Sahar Sadjadi from McGill University and Dr. Rebecca Jordan-Young from Barnard College. This talk will explore the changing relationships among these concepts with a special view to how they are used and what they can accomplish, and obscure

Dr. Velma McBride Murry, a professor at Vanderbilt University, talks with UCLA CDA Co-Executive Director Dr. Andrew Fuligni about her extensive research on African-American parents and youth, and how she has used this information to develop and implement the Pathways for African American Success Program (PAAS) to enhance families’ skills to help their pre-teens make

Dr. Helena Hansen has just been elected into the National Academy of Medicine “For leadership in the intersection of opioid addiction, race and ethnicity, social determinants of health, and social medicine; and for co-developing structural competency as clinical redress for institutional drivers of health inequalities.”  Congratulations to our wonderful colleague, Professor of Psychiatry and Associate

Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos is an Assistant Professor DGSOM Center for Social Medicine and UCLA International Institute and author of All I Eat is Medicine: Going Hungry in Mozambique’s AIDS Economy. To register for the talk, click here

Enrico G. Castillo, MD, MSHPM, of our Center has been selected as one of 22 “New Voices” by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). The New Voices are a diverse cohort of mid-career experts who will bring their collective ideas about critical and emerging interdisciplinary issues to the work of the National