HETSS News
HETSS Announcements
- On July, 1, 2023, Alma Guerrero, MD, MPH, and Sung-Jae Lee, PhD, were appointed the new Co-Leads of the Research Theme in Health Equity and Translational Social Science!
- Helena Hansen, MD, PhD was appointed interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, interim director of the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) at UCLA, and interim physician-in-chief of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital!
- Congratulations to all of the 2021 UCLA DGSOM/CTSI/ HETSS Seed Grant Program awardees!
- Congratulations to our co-chair, Dr. Helena Hansen, for being elected to the National Academy of Medicine, among the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health!
- Congratulations to our co-chair, Dr. Rochelle Dicker, for receiving the prestigious 2021 American College of Surgeons/Pfizer Domestic Surgical Volunteerism Award!
HETSS Webinars
For the complete list of previous HETSS Webinar recordings, please check out our Youtube playlist. If you can't make them live they are retroactively available in our event series playlist.
Community Spotlight
Stephanie Kiesow-Edoh is the inaugural Associate Director of UCLA’s new Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education here on campus. She has received both her MA in Developmental Psychology and Masters in Public Health here at UCLA. Stephanie has worked domestically and abroad in the field of maternal and child health, designed and lectured courses in reproductive health at UCLA, and has served as a birth and postpartum doula within the community.
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