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| Discover how Vulena Xiong turned personal challenges into a powerful mission for change. From navigating cultural traditions and chronic pain to pursuing a career in medicine, her story highlights the importance of representation and health equity in underserved communities and the power of scholarship support. Read more → |
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| As climate change intensifies, urban communities face rising temperatures, poor air quality, and extreme weather. Jason Douglas, PhD, is leading an innovative project to transform vacant lots into “Pocket Parks and Gardens” — small green spaces that reduce urban heat, improve air quality, and promote community well-being. This research aims to create a blueprint for healthier, more equitable cities across California and beyond. Read more → |
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| Alana LeBrón, PhD, and colleagues outline a bold roadmap for transforming academic public health. Their analysis, published in the American Journal of Public Health, calls on institutions to embed power analysis into curricula, research, and governance—shifting incentive structures and strengthening community partnerships to advance health equity. Read more → |
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| | | | | Led by Denise Payán, PhD, this initiative shows how rural communities can overcome barriers to tobacco and cannabis policy reform. Through a community-engaged model, local advocates, state agencies, and national organizations joined forces to strengthen policy capacity in underserved regions. The partnership delivered workshops, webinars, and strategies that helped secure smoke-free laws and flavored tobacco bans — proving that collaboration is key to advancing health equity. Read more → |
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| | | | UC Irvine’s BigCARE program, led by Min Zhang, PhD, is leveraging high-performance computing to train researchers in advanced cancer big data analytics. Through hands-on workshops and access to the Anvil HPC platform, participants learn to integrate and analyze complex omics datasets—driving innovation in precision cancer medicine. Read more → |
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Led by Sean Arayasirikul, PhD, this study finds racial and ethnic disparities in polysubstance use among sexual and gender minoritized individuals seeking help online, underscoring the need for culturally responsive harm-reduction strategies. Read more → |
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| U.S. Navy veteran and Wen Public Health PhD student Harwood Garland has been named a California Assembly Veteran of the Year for his leadership, scholarship, and mentorship. Garland’s research focuses on suicide prevention among military veterans, and he has helped shape programs that strengthen UC Irvine’s support network for those who’ve served. Read more → |
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| | | "Because the truth is: menopause is not just a personal transition. It is a public health, economic, and equity frontier. Most women enter menopause between 45 and 60. These are peak career years — years when women should be stepping into leadership, earning promotions, shaping the future of their organizations. Yet many women face disruptive symptoms: hot flashes, sleep disturbances, cognitive fog, anxiety." |
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Join Wen Public Health for a panel of deans and directors of the University of California’s schools and departments of public health on the erosion of public health infrastructure, science, and trust — and how we rebuild.
Moderators:Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH, Founding Dean & Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior, UC Irvine Wen Public Health; and Deena S. McRae, MD, Associate Vice President, Academic Health Sciences, University of California Health
Panelists:Cheryl A. M. Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS, FAHA, Professor and Dean, UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Ron Brookmeyer, MS, PhD, Dean, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Michael C. Lu, MD, MS, MPH, Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Bradley H. Pollock ’79, MPH, PhD, FACE, Chairman & Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences at UC Davis School of Medicine Mark Wolfson, PhD, Chairman of the Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health at the UC Riverside School of Medicine
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