Health Equity and Translational Social Science (HETSS) Research Theme
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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!
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.
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.
The Health Justice Internship (HJI) provides first generation BIPOC pre-health and equity-oriented students with an opportunity to (1) engage in medical student and community-led curriculum around structural racism, vulnerability, and social justice in medicine, (2) receive personal and professional mentorship, and (3) complete a tangible project geared towards improving health in communities they call home.
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