KEYWORD

health equity

Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing building.

UC Irvine to launch family nurse practitioner residency program this fall

Goal is to close critical gaps in O.C. primary care while advancing health equity

Gabrielle Gussin

From patient to Ph.D.

Gabby Gussin overcame the usual hurdles – plus cancer – to earn a doctorate in public health

Snow-capped San Gabriel mountains form a backdrop for the UC Irvine Medical Center-Irvine construction site in the foreground.

UC Irvine earns STARS Gold rating for sustainability excellence, continuing legacy

Green buildings, waste diversion, alternative transportation and community outreach cited

Nataly Campos, left, and Kathy Duong are co-presidents of the Anteater Smile Project.

Spreading smiles

UC Irvine student group provides oral health education and dental hygiene kits to low-income communities

PRIME-LC turns 20

Alumni doctors share their memories of the influential medical education program

UC Irvine grad student training program aims to broaden access to cardiovascular care

New NSF-funded initiative emphasizes technological solutions to health disparities

Karen Lincoln standing behind a chair in her office. Karen Lincoln, is a UC Irvine professor of environmental and occupational health who directs the campus’s Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research

‘Who Wants to Be a Study Subject'

Karen Lincoln fosters trust by sharing results, hosting follow-up events like game shows

Joyce Lee standing in the produce section of a market in front of apples stacked in bins.

Preventing prediabetes

Joyce Lee enlists supermarket pharmacists for personalized, on-site coaching of select patients

Jonathan Watanabe, UC Irvine professor of clinical pharmacy practice and director of the campus’s Center for Data-Driven Drugs Research and Policy.

National Academies progress report: health disparities

Reducing diversity gaps in clinical trials is a societal imperative, according to UC Irvine professor

Sunmin Lee, a UC Irvine professor of medicine.

Decreasing Asian American health disparities

Sunmin Lee studies linguistic, sociocultural barriers to care for this diverse community