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THIS FRI 2/10 Khiara M. Bridges, JD, PhD will explore the Court's decision in Dobbs to overturn Roe v. Wade. For more information & to register, click here: uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

THIS SAT 2/11 in Culver City, LA Dr. Elizabeth Barnert will read from her inspiring new book REUNION and our Center's Director Dr. Philippe Bourgois will read his photo-ethnographic testimony in the book while trapped in a scorched earth campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War

Shoutout to our Center's faculty member, #EnricoCastillo, on his presentation last week to CA State Senate Democratic Caucus! Bringing homelessness science in dialogue with policymakers! #healthequity #HousingFirst David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA UCLA Semel InstituteFriend @UCLASemel UCLA HETSS Research Theme

THIS FRIDAY 2/24 Please join us in conversation with Dorothy Roberts about her book, Torn Apart: How the child welfare system destroys black families - and how abolition can build a safer world. Register Here: uclahs.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

NEXT TUES 3/21 at 9am California Time: The NIH's Network of African American Fellows will be hosting a talk/discussion with Prof Philippe Bourgois on the intersectional structural forces driving the toxicities of social inequality. Register here: training.nih.gov/events/view/_2…

THURS 3/23 Dr Philippe Bourgois will be lecturing by Zoom in Harvard U's Dept of Sociology "Contemportary Enthography and Inequality Workshop". Register Here: web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/lists/…

WEDS 4/12 at 11am PT join Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley and the authors of Whiteout, including Dr. Jules Netherland, Dr. David Herzberg, and our Center’s Dr. Helena Hansen, for a discussion of the roots of the surprisingly white opioid crisis in racial capitalism eventbrite.com/e/whiteout-how…

TODAY 4/14 from 1-2pm PT Dr. Jessica P. Cerdeña will present the talk on her new book, “Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers" Register Here: uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

TODAY 4/17 3PM Our Center's Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos will discuss his paper co-authored w/ Dr. Matthew McCoy, "Purity, Danger, and Patriotism: The Struggle for a Veteran Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic” as part of UCLA's Mind, Medicine, and Culture Series in Haines Hall Room 352

WEDS 4/26 from 1-2pm PT Sarah Namirembe, founding member of Focus on Recovery Uganda, and China Scherz, Associate Professor at the University of Virgina, will present the talk, "Higher Powers: Alcohol and After in Uganda's Capital City" Register here: uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Shoutout to Center for Social Medicine faculty member #EnricoCastillo who presented yesterday at the National Academies on the topic of homeless outreach for veterans and was just appointed to the California State Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health!

Jonathan Alpert MD, Carolyn Rodriguez, Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS - UCSF School of Medicine, Dr. Helena Hanson- UCLA Center for Social Medicine, Justin Chen MD MPH -Weill Cornell Medicine , Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD - @pshrink.bsky.social spoke about how to advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for psychiatry researchers and BIPOC participants #ThisisHealthEquity #APAAM23

THIS FRI 5/26 from 1-2pm PT Dr. Katrina Heyrana will discuss how criminalization of abortion in the Philippines has generated profound stigma around accessing reproductive healthcare, including family planning services. Register HERE: uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

THIS FRI 6/9 at 1pm PT Dr. Caroline M. Parker will be presenting the talk "Carceral Citizens: Labor and Confinement in Puerto Rico" For more information & to register, click here: uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Shoutout to Center for Social Medicine faculty member #EnricoCastillo who was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine #healthequity #antiracism UCLA Semel Institute David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA UCLA UCLA HETSS Research Theme nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Shoutout to our faculty member #EnricoCastillo, who is serving as an Organizing Committee member at the 2023 @AAFrontiers, in #Qatar. He is co-chairing a session on Technologies for Equity and Inclusion! National Academies New Voices NASEM UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA University of California

Dr. Philippe Bourgois (Philippe Bourgois) discusses the potential spread of a "more toxic and devastating" drug following the agreement to crack down on fentanyl production and exports in a recent article: vice.com/en/article/wxj…

Here is the first 24 minutes of the attack at UCLA. Make no mistake: the attacks were solely initiated by the pro-Israel side.

Stream Professor Kevin Coleman's excellent documentary on Latin American labor struggles (free): Señal Colombia Sept 29 7pm California Time senalcolombia.tv See also the uncensored historical United Fruit Co. (banana plantation) archive: philippebourgois.net/ufco.html

Shoutout to our Center's faculty member #EnricoCastillo for being named an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine! uclahealth.org/news/release/u…