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Digital Health Week 2024: Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Vaccine Education

Digital Health Week 2024: Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Vaccine Education

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Join Stanford Digital Medic, Maya Health Alliance, and UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences for an interactive online presentation to see their approach to improving HPV and routine vaccination rates in Indigenous Maya communities in Guatemala. You’ll discover how they used a human-centered design approach to gather insights from community members and health workers to create a culturally relevant, animated vaccine education video series. Learn how tailored and inclusive interventions can address barriers to immunization and equip communities with the information they need to make decisions for themselves and others.

Stanford Center for Digital Health Annual Symposium

Stanford Center for Digital Health Annual Symposium

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Join the Stanford Center for Digital Health for a day of meaningful discussions at the intersection of technology and health. Engage with leading speakers and attendees from academia, policy, philanthropy, and industry as they explore the latest advancements and challenges in digital health. This event promises to foster connections and inspire action across diverse sectors dedicated to improving health through technology.

The AI revolution in health care

The AI revolution in health care

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Artificial intelligence breakthroughs are ushering in new ways to individualize patient recommendations, augment diagnoses and aid in clinical decisions. Join Washington Post Live for conversations with top medical leaders from Stanford, UCSF, and UC Berkeley about how AI could transform the patient journey of the future and ways to improve transparency and trust in this new era of medicine.

IGHS Grand Rounds with CHESA (the Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia)

IGHS Grand Rounds with CHESA (the Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia)

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The CHESA Global Health Equity Fellowship leverages UCSF resources and expertise to cultivate and mentor the next generation of global surgery and anesthesia leaders. For this Grand Rounds, CHESA will provide a brief overview of the fellowship program and highlight a project led by CHESA Fellow alumni Drs. Treasure Ibingira, Martha Namugga, and Caroline Stephens. Their initiative aims to reduce the mortality and morbidity of trauma in Uganda by improving education, strengthening care delivery, and mobilizing diverse stakeholders to build an integrated trauma system in the country.

Mpox Outbreak Declared a Global Emergency, Alliance Members Take Action

Mpox Outbreak Declared a Global Emergency, Alliance Members Take Action

“World health leaders must deploy rapid support and flexible funding to countries affected in Africa to stop mpox from spreading further,” wrote Vanessa Kerry, Seed Global Health.

In response to the mid-August declaration by WHO that mpox is a global emergency, Alliance member organizations are mobilizing.

Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch | Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the US

Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch | Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the US

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Join the Alliance, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, and Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health for Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the US, a Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch Session. This session features speaker Sarah Hooper, JD, Professor of Practice at UC Law San Francisco and Associate Dean of the UCSF-UC Law SF Master of Science in Health Policy & Law. She focuses on health justice, aging, and complex care. She has been involved in clinical interventions like the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic and research projects such as the Dementia Care Ecosystem clinical trial. Sarah has co-developed tools for decision-making among older adults with dementia, including PREPARE and Plan for Clarity.

Global Child Health Lecture Series 2024

Global Child Health Lecture Series 2024

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Join Alliance member UCSF for a two-week series of conversations about the state of child health around the world. This series takes place from August 13–August 22, 2024 and discusses topics related to child health and infectious diseases, climate health, career development, multidisciplinary collaboration, pediatric programs and clinics, and many more.

RISE UP for Breast Cancer

RISE UP for Breast Cancer

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Join Alliance members UCSF for a new, interdisciplinary conference focusing on a bold reimagining of breast cancer prevention and treatment through cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and out-of-the-box thinking. The purpose of this conference is to center the whole woman and collaborate across disciplines, so that we can RISE UP to the challenge of reducing breast cancer incidence and mortality in our lifetime.

3rd Annual Bay Area Tuberculosis Science (BATS) Symposium

3rd Annual Bay Area Tuberculosis Science (BATS) Symposium

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Join the UC Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (UC TRAC) for the 3rd Annual Bay Area Tuberculosis Science (BATS) Symposium, co-sponsored by Alliance members UCSF Center for Tuberculosis and UC Berkeley Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases. BATS brings together TB investigators at UCSF, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Stanford University and the SF Department of Public Health to highlight established and early-stage investigators in the UC TRAC community with the intention to build community and foster collaboration. 

International West Africa Symposium & Workshop on Infectious Disease

International West Africa Symposium & Workshop on Infectious Disease

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Join Alliance member UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute in collaboration with the University of Sierra Leone for the first International West Africa Symposium & Workshop on Infectious Disease. The Symposium on July 29-30 will bring and expose leaders in the international infectious disease community from within Africa and beyond, together in Freetown, Sierra Leone to describe the state of the art in infectious disease research on a number of key pathogens relevant to the region. Workshops will follow on July 31-August 3.

Human-Centered Design Course

Human-Centered Design Course

Alliance member UCSF is offering a course focused on human-centered design. Human-centered design is a discipline incorporating the human needs perspective to solve problems in public health and medicine. Learners will learn and follow a design process, applying methods focused on building empathy, translating needs into solution requirements, creative ideation, prototype development and testing, and planning for implementation. Deadline for registering for this Fall term course is May 1st, 2024.

Implementation Science Short Course

Implementation Science Short Course

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Join Alliance member UCSF for a two-day course that will introduce and apply key concepts of Implementation Science in a small group setting. This course will provide opportunities to acquire new knowledge and skills, as well as meet and collaborate with other Implementation Science researchers. Learners will complete this course with concrete examples applying relevant Implementation Science theory to their own research area.