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Webinars & Talks

The Center for Social Medicine hosts many events each year, focusing on the most pressing and important issues at the intersection of Psychiatry, Public Health, Social Services, and the Humanities. 

To learn about upcoming events, check out our Calendar on the homepage, follow us on Twitter, or email (no subject/body needed): socialmedicine_humanities+subscribe@lists.ucla.edu

2024

MD/PhD in the Social Sciences & Humanities

Health Activism and Social Justice in American Medicine, 1945 to the present

Transforming the Health Science Knowledge System Through a Culture of Health and Equity Framework

2023

Psychologist as Ethnographer: Reflections on Alzheimer’s in Oaxaca & Sexual Trauma among Veteran Men

Advancing Our Commitment to HETSS in 2023 and Beyond

Carceral Citizens: Labor and Confinement in Puerto Rico

Acculturative Processes in the Generation & Gvolution of Filipinx Family Planning Stigma

Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda’s Capital City

Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers

Nowhere to Go: Advancing Structural Solutions to Homelessness

2022

Social Medicine: Boosting Herd Immunity for Health Professionals?

Structural Competency Discourse, Epistemic Justice & Cultural Politics of Identity: Hard Questions

Bounding and Scaling: Allocating Psychiatric Care in France and the United States

Survival Pending Revolution: Another Look at the Black Panther Party’s Health Programs

From Supervised Consumption to Safe Supply: Addressing the Overdose Crisis

Reproductive (In)Justice in America​

Crisis in El Salvador: A Model of Empowerment by Rural Youth Organizers Focusing on Sustainable Agricultural Development, Historical Memory of the Revolutionary Struggle, and Gang Prevention

Character in Context: Some Observations from K-Drama

Healing, Self-Care, and Youths’ Civic Leadership

The Inside Game: Psychoanalysis as Resistance

Using a Community Engaged Approach to Improve Sexual Health Education & Outcomes among Youth Impacted by Commercial Sexual Exploitation

The Fundamental Cause Theory of Health Inequalities: An Overview & Application

Health and Public Policy in the (Hopefully) Post-Trump Era

2021

All I Eat is Medicine: Going Hungry in Mozambique’s AIDS Economy

Utilizing the Social Ecological Model to Heal from Historical & Intergenerational Trauma

Inflamed: Decolonizing Medicine for Better Health Outcomes

Black & Asian Relations in America: Dangers & Opportunities for Health Equity

Decarceration and Care: Transforming Los Angeles

Health Care Inside and Out

Structural Racism in Biomedical Research

Strengthening Our Communities by Providing Culturally-Informed treatment for Substance Use Disorders

Inside the Country’s Largest Jail: Berumen/Armstrong’s Peer Assisted Mental Health Care Program

Can the Courts Fix the Crisis of Mental Health?

Secrets of the Soul: Race, Class, Gender and the Unconscious

The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens

2020

COVID-19 and Incarceration: What Is to Be Done?