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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Join Alliance member UCSF for an overview of PEPFAR’s HIV sciences priorities, with updates from Ingrid Katz, Director for Behavioral Sciences and Mike Reid, Chief Science Officer for President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Emergency Relief (PEPFAR) / Global Health Security and Delivery (GHSD).
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Join Alliance members Stanford, UCSF, and UC Davis for a virtual symposium focused on climate, health, and equity. This symposium offers opportunities to hear from expert climate and health policy activists and personally affected community leaders who will speak about how all California residents’ health is being impacted by oil drilling and fossil fuels.
Join Alliance member UCSF for their Master of Science in Global Health Info Session. UCSF Master’s in Global Health Sciences is an interdisciplinary program that prepares students for careers in research, policy, academia, program management and evaluation, and leadership. Program Director Chris Carpenter, MD, MPH and Associate Director Ingrid Chen, PhD, MS ’13 will present an overview of the program and admissions process and have time for Q+A.
Join UCSF for a day-long in-person and virtual event focused on health equity in data interpretation and radical participatory design and research sponsored by UCSF’s SOM Dean’s Office, Institute for Global Health Sciences, and Emancipatory Sciences Lab.
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Join UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences for their virtual Master of Science in Global Health Information Session. Program Director Chris Carpenter, MD, MPH, and Associate Director Ingrid Chen, PhD, MS ’13 will present an overview of the program and admissions process and have time for Q&A.
A panel discussion on the U.S. and Mexico response to the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for future preparedness in both countries. This event was hosted in partnership with UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences and moderated by Ben Plumley.
On May 11, Dr. Garrett Mehl, Head Digital Health Technology Unit, and Andy Pattison, Team Lead Digital Channels and head of the WHO Tech Task Force, were joined by Dr. John Grove, Director, Quality Assurance of Norms and Standards, for this briefing from the WHO, co-hosted by the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences
With monkeypox now an international, national and state public health emergency, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences hosted an online update on the crisis. Experts from Bay Area Global Health Alliance member organizations UCSF, Stanford University, PRC, San Francisco Community Health Center, and Chevron, along with Santa Clara County Health Officer and Public Health Director Sara Cody, shared their perspectives.
Bay Area Global Health Alliance members Americares, Stanford University, Public Health Institute, UCSF, and Google had a virtual conversation exploring the impact of wildfires and air pollution on the health of communities in the United States. The discussion co-hosted by the Alliance and Americares highlighted the most important concerns in this space and each panelist shared how their organization is working to build resilience, support preparedness/disaster management efforts, and address the health inequities resulting from climate change. At this virtual event, attendees had the opportunity to learn from leading experts in climate health, contribute ideas, and leave with action items to further climate resilience in their communities. Learn more.