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Previous CEHD Events:
CEHD and the UCLA SPH
Students of Color for Public Health (SCPH) co-hosted the third event of
our 2006-07 Brownbag Seminar Series on Wednesday, January 31.
Dr. Bracho is recognized at the local, regional and
national levels as an expert in Latino health issues, health education,
minority women, cultural competency, community organizing, diabetes
education and HIV. She has also been a trainer, presenter and consultant
for numerous government
and community agencies around
the nation, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
UCLA, and the University of Michigan.
A native of Venezuela (where
she earned her medical degree and worked for several years as a
physician), Dr. Bracho came to the U.S. to obtain a M.P.H. (masters in
public health) from the University of Michigan. She then created and
directed the AIDS program for Latino Family Services in Detroit for the
next four years.
Dr. Bracho then created
Latino Health Access, a center for health promotion and disease
prevention in Santa Ana. The Center assists with the multiple health
needs of Latinos in Orange County, with programs that train community
health workers as leaders of wellness and change.
Dr. Bracho also serves as a
consultant for the Pan-American Health Organization and has been a
valuable faculty member for several international courses in Latin
America. In the past, she has been involved with the Spanish-speaking
media as hostess of a daily radio talk show and TV show on
health-related topics. She has also been a newspaper columnist and
remains involved with the media as a source of
information related to health
awareness.
CEHD and the UCLA SPH
Students of Color for Public Health (SCPH) co-hosted the second event of
our 2005-06 Brownbag Seminar Series on
Thursday, November 16.
INAUGURAL SOCIAL SCIENCES INITIATIVE (SSI) SYMPOSIUM On Thursday, October 12 and Friday, October 13 the first annual SSI symposium was held at UCLA. Over 450 students, faculty and community members attended this event entitled “Social Inequalities and Social Disparities in Los Angeles and Beyond.” On Friday morning, close to 200 LAUSD high school students joined the audience as well. Utilizing the “laboratory” of Los Angeles, the symposium revealed insights into the causes and consequences of social inequalities and social disparities. In addition to many insightful academic presentations by faculty from across UCLA’s campus, the audience was engaged in discussions led by civil rights leaders Dr. Robert Moses and Shanta Driver and Alissa Anderson-Garcia, policy analyst at the California Budget Project. SSI began through the vision of the Deans of the School of Public Health, Public Affairs, Education and Information Sciences, and the Social Sciences Division of the College of Letters and Science. Both CEHD Co-Directors are active participants in this important initiative dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary scholarship, research, practice and partnership to inform effective and innovative solutions. Dr. Roshan Bastani, is one of the four lead faculty moving SSI forward and Dr. Toni Yancey is offering one of SSI’s first fiat-lux courses this fall on cultural literacy and community health in addition to being active in the person-focused working group. In addition to Drs. Bastani and Yancey, CEHD affiliates participating in SSI and the symposium include Dr. Steven Wallace and Dr. Anne Pebley. For more information on SSI, please visit www.ssi.ucla.edu.
May 10th, 2006: CORICA Symposium
CEHD Launch - October 2005 Marketing & Advertising to Minorities - August 2005
The
8th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture |
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