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Virtual Certification Courses: Mental Health First Aid Training ✚
Virtual Certification Courses: Participants will need to complete approximately 2 hours of pre-work (1 week before the training) and attend the 5.5-hour virtual training. This is a full certification course, where all participants will receive a certification as a Mental Health First Aider, valid for 3 years after completion of the course requirements. Space is…
UCI Celebrates Black History Month ♥★✚
Events during Black History Month WEDNESDAY FEB 2, 2022, 12-1:30pm. CEE@UCI BTI Seminar Series | Food-Energy-Water Nexus: A Systems Approach to Resolving Health Disparities in Marginalized Communities, Shakira Hobbs. Dr. Shakira Hobbs’ scholarship explores system approaches to environmental sustainability and social justice applied to engineering equity at the food, energy, and water nexus. Zoom Link…
What Matters to Me and Why: Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D., Vice Provost, Academic Planning and Institutional Research ★✚
HybridPlease join us for the 2021-22 “What Matters to Me and Why” discussion Who: Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D., Vice Provost, Academic Planning and Institutional Research When: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, at Noon Where: In-Person, Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center (Note: Boxed lunch provided after the event at 1:00 p.m.); Online via Zoom Webinar Reservations: RSVP for In-Person…
Confronting American Health Disparities Race, Class, and Maternal Mortality in the United States ♥ ✚
Confronting American Health Disparities Race, Class, and Maternal Mortality in the United States Wednesday, February 9, 2022 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. PST A Virtual Event REGISTER In this yearlong series, Confronting American Health Disparities, we amplify urgent health concerns related to women and LGBTQ communities. In the United States, health disparities track along nearly every…
Black Nonsense (Or, Black Radical Utterances in the Idiom of Madness ✚
Black Nonsense (Or, Black Radical Utterances in the Idiom of Madness Join us for our second event in our “Mental Health in a Time of Pandemic” series. Professor Bruce’s talk begins with a meditation on “mad” black captives in the novels and short stories of Richard Wright, Gayl Jones, and Ntozake Shange. While confined in…
Collaborative Public Health Research and Practice: A Less Complicated Solution to Mitigating Environmentally Driven Health Disparities ★✚
ZoomCollaborative Public Health Research and Practice: A Less Complicated Solution to Mitigating Environmentally Driven Health Disparities Friday, February 18, 2022 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Zoom with Beverly Xaviera Watkins, PhD Social epidemiologist and community-engaged research practitioner RSVP Beverly Xaviera Watkins, MA, PhD, is a social epidemiologist and community-engaged research practitioner with a 26-year track…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium: Fighting Cancer In the Black Community ♥✚
Emerald Bay A, UCI Student CenterBlack History Month 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Come join and celebrate Black History Month as we engage in conversations about Black Health and Wellness and activism in the 21st Century. Fighting Cancer In the Black Community Event Date: February 23, 2022 Location: Student Center Emerald Bay A Reception Time: 5:30pm-6:00pm Event Time:…
Making History: The Evolution of Cancer Health Equity through Transdisciplinary Science ★✚
ZoomMaking History: The Evolution of Cancer Health Equity through Transdisciplinary Science Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD February 25, 2022, 3:00 – 4:00 PM Join us for an inaugural Black History month lecture presented by the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Hughes-Halbert serves as the Associate Director for Cancer Equity at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.…
The Healing Power of Dance, Featuring Dr. S. Ama Way, UCI Associate Professor of Dance ♥★✚
ZoomThe Healing Power of Dance Featuring Dr. S. Ama Way, UCI Associate Professor of Dance Join our schools for a free event that offers an opportunity for phronetic insight; in this instance, heal by doing; and the doing is Dance. The attention to breath with rhythmicity, sensory attunement and cognitive focus will bring you back…
The Maternal Negligence Trailer Screening ♥ ✚
Claire Trevor School of the Arts 4002 Mesa Road Irvine, CA 92617Spreading Awareness about Black Maternal and Infant Health Inequities About this event In honor of Black Maternal Health Week, C.A.A.R.E Productions presents Maternal Negligence, a beautifully written screenplay by junior journalism major, Autumn Martin, that creates awareness of the systemic and large-scale issues that Black women face in health settings due to implicit bias and…