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Helping health care providers navigate social, political, and legal barriers to patient care
A new case study in “The Lancet” offers tips for health system leaders on how and when to call in outside resources and organizations
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Scheduling smarter: Combining technology and policy for more pleasant, equitable commuting
As housing costs push workers farther from their jobs, UCSC researchers are developing smart scheduling technology to ease commutes and reduce traffic in Santa Cruz. By combining real-time data, public policy, and community input, the project aims to create a more equitable and sustainable public transportation system.
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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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New book explains the public health costs of prisons and policing
Assistant Professor Carlos Martinez’s latest co-edited book explores the public health impacts of punitive policing, incarceration, and deportation policies and describes how the abolitionist health justice movement is working toward a new, more just vision of “safety” that protects, rather than harms, the health and wellbeing of our society’s most vulnerable people.
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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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Sobredosis de droga en latinos se ha venido duplicando desde la pandemia: autoridades de San Francisco, en alerta
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Carlos Martinez spoke with Univision 14 about the dangers to Latino drug users from fentanyl.
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Biden promised to fix our asylum process. He hasn’t
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Carlos Martinez wrote an op-ed article for the San Francisco Chronicle about asylum policy issues.
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UCSC’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience awards over $4.6 million to support California coastal projects
The UCSC Center for Coastal Climate Resilience has awarded over $4.6 million in funding to 23 UC Santa Cruz research groups for pilot projects and implementation projects supporting efforts to fight climate change in coastal communities across California and beyond. Funds for these grant programs came from the California State Budget Act of 2022-23.
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Fire in Ciudad Juárez: binational immigration systems fail Central, South American victims
El Tecolote interviewed Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Carlos Martinez about how U.S. border policies have resulted in increased imprisonment of migrants in Mexican detention facilities.
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No, deporting undocumented immigrants won’t solve the fentanyl crisis
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Carlos Martinez coauthored an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle countering recent political narratives around the fentanyl crisis and unauthorized immigration across the US-Mexico border.
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What is Title 42?
Dr. Carlos Martinez, an assistant professor of Migrant Health & Social Justice in the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz, discusses the Biden administration's recent Humanitarian Parole Plan, the continued barring of migrants under the enforcement of Title 42 and his own ethnographic fieldwork.