KEYWORD

health equity

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

April 25, 2024
Susanne Phillips

UC Irvine professor of nursing to receive national award for policy advocacy

Susanne Phillips has improved healthcare access, role of advanced practice RNs

April 17, 2024
Quinton Smith

Boosting health equity with organ avatars

UCI engineer named one of Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 for using lab-grown blood vessels to benefit marginalized groups

February 20, 2024
An elderly woman who had never seen a physician in her life hugs Dr. Cristobal Barrios Jr. of UCI Health during his humanitarian visit to Ecuador last year.

Surgeon leads overseas medical missions to poor villages

UCI doctor most recently took a group of volunteers to Ecuador

February 16, 2024
Steve Anticona, an agroecological farmer and community outreach coordinator at CRECE Urban Farms, provides a farm tour to participants at the SERVE OC Autumn Family Wellness Festival.

Family-based heart health

UCI research program weighs benefits of new approach to cardiac fitness in local communities

February 12, 2024
Bernadette Boden-Albala, director of UCI’s Program in Public Health and founding dean of the planned School of Population and Public Health.

Bernadette Boden-Albala to be honored for contributions in addressing stroke inequities

UC Irvine Program in Public Health director and founding dean wins 2024 Kenton Award

January 30, 2024
Aileen Anderson, director of UCI’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center.

UC Irvine named one of CIRM’s cell and gene therapy manufacturing facilities

$2 million state grant allows campus stem cell center to advance regenerative medicine

September 28, 2023
Greg J. Duncan, UCI Distinguished Professor of education points to a graph on a white board.

National Academies report identifies ways to reduce intergenerational poverty in US

UC Irvine Distinguished Professor chairs committee recommending programs, policies

September 25, 2023
Michael Yassa and a woman looking at ta computer monitor.

Addressing disparities in Alzheimer’s disease research

UCI project focused on Black and Hispanic adults to serve as beacon of inclusivity

July 10, 2023
Federico Vaca in a lab coat.

Bilingual, digital health tool helps reduce alcohol use, UC Irvine-led study finds

Large-scale, randomized clinical trial is first of its kind focused on Latino participants

June 07, 2023