Water experts from around the world will gather at UCLA to discuss the shared resource challenges facing Africa and the Middle East as well as the cutting-edge policy and technology solutions being used and developed to overcome them.
Complete information on the conference and speakers is available on the conference website MidEastAfrica-Water.org
Please join us for the next FSPH Public Health Grand Rounds on Monday, April 30: "An Urban Health Monitoring System In the Informal Settlements of Dhaka, Bangladesh"
Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Before Medicare was established in 1965, disparities in access to hospital care were dramatic. Less than half the nation's hospitals served black and white patients equally, and in the South, one third of hospitals would not admit African-Americans even for emergencies. Medicare was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months.
Ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health
Renee Luthra (Dept of Sociology, University of Essex) and Alita Nandi (ISER)
Jonathan Yahalom, clinical psychologist and CSRC visiting scholar for 2017-18, will share findings from his extensive study of rural family caregiving for elders living with dementia in Oaxaca, Mexico. Drawing on research conducted in the Zapotec language, this presentation advances theoretical issues pertaining to cultural competence in the clinical sciences. Further, it develops anthropological insights about how aging, dementia, and caregiving are a prism for macro-level social changes in Oaxaca.
Folasade May, MD, PhD;
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Co-Director, UCLA Center for World Health Global Health Education Program; Director of Internal Medicine, Seed Global Health
Organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
