UCGHI offers UC Students online education in global health
This fall’s online global health courses offered by UCGHI will soon begin, providing education to UC students on global health issues from the foundations of epidemiology to health justice and mental health. Read more.
The UCGHI Women’s Health Gender & Empowerment Center of Expertise is thrilled to announce the new co-Director, Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH! Ushma leads one of the UCGHI WHGE COE signature projects, the California Home Abortion by Telehealth (CHAT) Study. Check out the first publication.
This upcoming academic year, the UCGHI Planetary Health Center of Expertise’s signature project, Latinx and the Environment Initiative led by Federico Castillo, PhD, will expand it’s activities and reach across the UC system, including the first UC System Wide Latinx and the Environment Student Research Conference which will showcase research from undergraduate and graduate students and UC faculty.
The hospitals of University of California Health (UCH) once again have been rated among the best in the state and the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2021-2022 Best Hospitals rankings.
The University of California, Davis has recently named Jonna Mazet — a highly distinguished professor of epidemiology and disease ecology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and UCGHI board of directors co-vice chair of the executive committee — to the new position of vice provost for grand challenges. 
The University of California ranks No. 1 among colleges and universities when it comes to green electricity use, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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This Student Assistant position is open to UCGHI student ambassador alumni who are current undergraduate, graduate, or professional students.

UCGHI is recruiting two new student assistants across all 10 UC campuses and partnering Historically Black College and University (HBCU), Charles R. Drew University, for its 2021-2022 Student Ambassador Program! This student assistant position will support the two program tracks in collaboration with UCGHI Centers of Expertise: 1) Planetary Health and 2) Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment.

Application Deadline: Monday, October 18, 2021
Advances in Global Health is open for submissions and particularly welcomes contributions from researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). You can find more information on the type of articles solicited, here.