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!

HETSS Events

2/24/23: Recording of Dorothy Roberts & Torn Apart
Please join us in conversation with Dorothy Roberts about her book, "Torn Apart: How the child welfare system destroys black families - and how abolition can build a safer world." Panelists include: Yolanda Vera, Esq. (Sr. Health Deputy, LA County 2nd District Supervisor Holly Mitchell); Denese Shervington, MD, MPH (Chair of Psychiatry, CDU); Nichole Roxas, MD, MPH (Child Psychiatry Fellow, UCLA); Kenyon Lee Whitman, PhD (Assistant Professor, UNLV; Foster care expert and former foster youth). Introduction by Helena Hansen, MD, PhD. Moderated by Eraka Bath, MD.

To learn more about the panel, please click here.

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.

See series playlist

HETSS Highlights

Community Spotlight

 

Stephanie Kiesow-Edoh headshot

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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