Dear UCI Community,
To commemorate and celebrate the contributions to our nation made by people of African descent, we recognize Black History Month in February. It is a time to honor the triumphs and recognize the struggles of Black people throughout U.S. history. As public health practitioners and researchers, we know the multitude of health disparities that impact Black Americans’ mortality and morbidity – largely due to structural racism and access to healthcare.
I am thrilled to introduce a new faculty member to UCI Public Health who embodies why representation matters in our research enterprise’s effort to confront these disparities. Professor of environmental and occupational health, Karen Lincoln, MSW, PhD, joins our exceptional faculty body and shares with us how societal stressors impact the health and well-being of communities of color. Her research investigates societal and social determinants' impact and how to inform and design interventions that can restore and promote the health and well-being of Black Americans across the lifespan.
Dr. Lincoln is part of the Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Cluster Hire: Environmental Health Disparities program. She also takes on the role of Director of the UCI Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research where she joins 25 other UCI colleagues who are working towards promoting health equity and environmental justice through public health research and practice. Dr. Lincoln brings more than 15 years of experience to UCI Public Health and one of her primary areas of research is looking at how sleep disparities can lead to long term health conditions in Black communities, including cardiovascular disease, sleep apnea, Alzheimer's disease and more.
Please join me in welcoming her to our UCI Community and reading about her very important research contributions below.
Sincerely,
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Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH
Director and Founding Dean
UCI Program in Public Health
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In this first-person narrative, she highlights the sleep disparities that Black communities face and how public health practitioners can raise awareness about the current state of affairs, and work together to improve the health and well-being of all communities of color.
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Relationships between Diabetes and the Intestinal Microbial Population
Corresponding Author: Stephen Bondy, PhD, Clinical Professor
(International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
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UCI launches new public health informatics and technology training program with an emphasis on diversity among its students
In the face of an urgent need to modernize our nation’s public health information infrastructure, co-directors, Tim Bruckner, PhD, (far lft) and Kai Zheng, PhD, (center) launched the UCI Public Health Informatics and Technology Workforce Development Program to harness the power of data to monitor and control the spread of disease. Leadership also includes Yunan Chen, PhD, (2nd from lft), Sora Park Tanjasiri, DrPH (2nd from rt) and Margaret Schneider, PhD (far rt).
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Mouldy Planet: Fungi and One Health
Professor Oladele Ogunseitan, PhD, coined the term Mouldy Planet in his connection between fungi and environmental health. He argues that the prevention of diseases caused by fungi shows the need for a One Health approach since fungal species can cause similar diseases in humans and animals. (One Health Cases)
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Doctoral student of public health (global health concentration) Maia Tarnas is the lead author of a study that looks at the health care systems of displaced communities. With her colleagues, they recommend a series of workshops that brings together different actors across silos to make concrete pathways for the inclusion of ecological considerations in camps. (The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
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IISBR Hosts NIH for Spit Camp Workshop
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research (IISBR) lab hosted a group of researchers from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center on January 24-25, for a personalized workshop.
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Drs. Elizabeth Thomas and Michael Hoyt from UCI Public Health, along with Dr. Jason Rothman in the Dept. of Mol. Bio & Biochem, and IISBR lab manager, Hillary Piccerillo, instructed attendees in this two day course on how to incorporate saliva in to their studies both in lecture and in a lab setting.
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The Ten Commandments of Antibiotic Stewards
This case study builds on a project to recruit antibiotic stewards and examines their responsibility to disseminate best practices, to support deeper knowledge, conservative attitudes and preventive practices.
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Lead author Oladele Ogunseitan, PhD, was joined by student researchers Gabrielle Gussin, MSc, Sarah Wang, and Tamara Jimah, PhD on this publication. (One Health Cases)
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The H&H Lee Foundation supports eight students who are conducting research around community engagement and health equity – foundational drivers of the UCI Program in Public Health.
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Honoring her history by paying it forward as a public health advocate
Public Health Policy student, Sakura Kate Ishiyama, shares her first hand experience with intergenerational trauma that inspired her research and academic pursuits. Ishiyama looks forward to applying to law school and becoming a public health advocate for underserved communities.
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UCI Health Cancer Center 2023 Seminar
Wed, February 15 // 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. // Virtual
UCI Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research (IISBR) is hosting a seminar featuring Drs. Michael Hoyt, Michelle Fortier, Angela Fleischman, Hannah Park, Eli Soyfer, Wendy Cozen and Crystle Agbayani. Register Today >>
Epigenetics and the Human Life Course Seminar
Tues, March 7 // 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. // Virtual Seminar
UCI Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research is hosting a seminar featuring Dr. Michael Kobor – Edwin S.H. Leong UBC Chair in Healthy Aging Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Epigenetics Fellow CIFAR. Zoom link upon request: iisbr@uci.edu >>
IISBR is an established research institute under UCI Public Health and UCI Social Ecology.
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