KEYWORD

health equity

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

UC Irvine Institute for Clinical & Translational Science receives $28 million NIH grant

Funding continues campus efforts to speed scientific discoveries into medical advances

Alexandre Chan, UCI chair and professor of clinical pharmacy practice

UC Irvine’s electronic patient-reported outcome tool reduces cancer care disparities

Multilanguage application helps manage symptoms of diverse racial, ethnic patients

Smiling woman standing in front of plants. says Jung-Ah Lee, professor and associate dean for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at UC Irvine’s Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing.

UC Irvine nursing professor is inducted into Sigma Theta Tau international hall of fame

Jung-Ah Lee’s geriatric care research aims to improve family caregivers’ quality of life

Nursing grad student Trang Truong

Finding her voice

Nursing student with speech disorder is determined to help disadvantaged patients be heard

Leigh Turner, director of UC Irvine’s Center for Health Ethics

Rethinking healthcare

Program in Public Health’s new Center for Health Ethics will explore issues, inform debates and propose policy solutions