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During the summer between my junior and senior years, I completed an internship with Beyond the Pill, a program of the Bixby Center at the University of California, San Francisco. It was exciting to have this opportunity to spend my summer at this esteemed research department dedicated to Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH), with the goal of promoting access and equity in contraceptive healthcare and the mission of addressing social determinants of health for underserved populations. 

The collaborative event with UC Berkeley’s Center of Excellence in Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (COE in MCAH) and University of Washington’s (UW) Epidemiology - Maternal and Child Health program(link is external) was a thought-provoking day offering deep insights into my journey towards becoming a future MCAH public health practitioner and researcher.

The 2023 Minorities in Health Conference was held on the 16th of April this year. Since 2009, this annual student-led event holds the primary purpose of educating students about health disparities that impact our communities and finding ways to decrease these disparities by encouraging and inspiring primarily high school and undergraduate students to strive toward higher education and, ultimately, careers in health. Organized by the Minorities in Health (MIH) Planning Committee, this was the first fully in-person conference since 2019.

Students featured in this section are graduating seniors in our first cohort of Advanced LEAP Scholars. Read below to learn more about Bryana, Gurashish and Julia's experiences!

All of the students featured in this section are graduating seniors who are a part of our first cohort of Advanced LEAP Scholars. Read below to learn more about Casey, Crystal, and Ainsley's undergraduate experiences at UC Berkeley!

As the semester comes to an end, we are highlighting two of our Advanced LEAP Scholars who are graduating in December 2022: Gabriel Sumayan Garcia and Kennedy Schaffer! They have been an integral part of our first cohort of Advanced LEAP Scholars at Berkeley Public Health, and we are excited to see their growth beyond Berkeley.  Read below to learn more about their experience in the MCAH LEAP Training Program.

The Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Internship Program supported by the National MCH Workforce Development Center provides an opportunity for teams of graduate MCH students from a Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health and MCH students from either an MCH Leadershi

For Mental Health Awareness Month 2022, David Orellana Delgado (YEDI/LEAP Fellow 2021-22) wrote about his experience as an undergraduate research assistant with the Fuerte Program, a primary and secondary school-based prevention program created to support the health and well-being of recently-immigrated Latinx newcomer students in the San Francisco Unified School District.