Global & Community Health
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Central Coast faces doctor shortage with plans for new medical school
UC Santa Cruz, in partnership with UC Davis, is addressing this issue with expansion of the PRIME program in which students will receive classroom training at Davis and clinical training on the Central Coast. Grant Hartzog, Executive Director of UC Santa Cruz’s Global and Community Health program, said, “Let’s start fast but small. So we’re…
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Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota: Not Just a Political, also a Public Health Crisis
Politics Ph.D. student Lucia Vitale argues that immigration enforcement in Minnesota is leading to deteriorating access to health care, widespread psychological distress, and the displacement of protective responsibilities from the state onto communities themselves.
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Farmworkers Brave Deadly Heat, Pollution, and ICE Raids
It can be hard to trace the poor health of farmworkers to any one cause. Ecosyndemics is the term that Matt Sparke, a professor of geography and globalization at the University of California, Santa Cruz, uses to describe the compounding health impacts from environmental pollution.
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UCSC study links immigration status to COVID deaths, survival rate
“This was the first study to really link immigration status and make it possible to link legal immigration status to excess death rates,” said Alicia Riley, and associate professor of sociology and core faculty member in the Global and Community Health Program.
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As farmworkers face longer, hotter harvest seasons, their risk of heat-related illness grows
Matt Sparke, co-director of the global and community health program, is creating an app that maps health risks related to climate change. The app can be used by community health workers, farmworkers, and policy makers.
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Enfoque California: El impacto del estatus migratorio durante una crisis de salud
Associate Professor of Sociology and Global and Community Health Alicia Riley joined Telemundo’s Enfoque California program to discuss her recent research on how immigration status affected mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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UC Santa Cruz medical training partnership with UC Davis to launch with 6 students in 2027
UC Santa Cruz is launching a new medical training program in partnership with UC Davis, aiming to address a regional physician shortage and lay the groundwork for a future UCSC medical school.
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Heat, storms, mosquitoes the big threats at Alligator Alcatraz, experts say
Assistant Professor Carlos Martinez said that what he has seen so far of the facility is “alarming and disturbing.” While many of the health concerns about Alligator Alcatraz are the same as those for any detention center — overcrowding, inadequate sanitation and food, inadequate medical care — he said some, like the heat and mosquitoes,…
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In the Medical System, the Concept of General ‘Safety’ Can Be a Pretext to Harm Pregnant Women
Existing in a police state where cops are embedded in hospitals or sicced onto people experiencing mental health crises “produces premature death,” says Carlos Martinez, a public health researcher and assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz.
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Local promotores trained on climate change impacts are now teaching fellow farmworkers.
UC Santa Cruz has been working with local organizations for two years on Campo-Sano, a research project investigating the impact of climate change on the well-being of farmworkers. That work included development of a bilingual app with an anonymous tipline about unsafe conditions. Professor Matthew Sparke, leader of the project, says adoption of the app…
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Overdose Deaths Swell Among SF’s Maya Residents, Highlighting Urgent Need for Culturally Competent Drug Health Services
The San Francisco Public Press covered research by Global and Community Health core faculty member and Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Carlos Martinez that showed most Latinx and Indigenous people in San Francisco who consumed drugs had very little knowledge of risks associated with those substances.
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Should Big Pharma pay poor countries for finding new diseases?
Vox discussed research by Politics Professor and Global and Community Health Program Co-Director Matt Sparke on how the COVID pandemic demonstrated that prioritizing intellectual property rights above all else entrenches global inequalities in access to medications and treatments.