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April 6, 2023

Alumna Kimsa Nguyen (MPH ‘22) Presents at the APAMSA National Conference

Alumna Kimsa Nguyen (MPH ‘22) recently presented a poster of her MCAH master’s capstone project, "Association Between Acculturation and Birth Control Usage Among Asian American Women in California," at the Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association (APAMSA) National Conference. This year the conference was hosted at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.

February 27, 2023

Berkeley Public Health

Neighborhood racial and economic privilege and timing of pubertal onset in girls

A team of researchers, led by Julia Acker, a doctoral student at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, sought to determine whether differences in racial and economic privilege at the neighborhood level may contribute to these disparities.

February 22, 2023

Undergraduate LEAP Scholar Highlight: Casey, Crystal, and Ainsley

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!

Breastfeeding Analysis Graduate Student Researchers - Mariah and Lupita

November 16, 2022

Undergraduate LEAP Scholar Highlight: Gabriel and Kennedy

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.

Summer Practicum Reflection: Lupita A.

This past summer, Lupita Ambriz, an MCAH student in the 2-Year MPH program at Berkeley Public Health, had the chance to work with a community that was very close to home. Read more about her summer practicum below and learn how she plans to further explore the takeaways in her current capstone project.

November 1, 2022

MCH Leads

MCH Leads Blog: “Working with Communities and Systems: My Summer Practicum Experience”

Current MCAH graduate student at UC Berkeley, Gabriela Gonzalez (expected MPH '23), is the newest author for MCH Leads—the student-led national MCH trainee blog.

August 30, 2022

MCAH Student Disability Advocate

Current MCAH graduate student, Julie Grassian (expected MSW/MPH '24) was invited by UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) to participate as a disability advocate for UCLA DGSOM’s Base Camp. Base Camp is an introductory session for incoming medical students to address assumptions and preconceptions related to disability and LGBTQ+ health, and to create a foundation for understanding the intersectionality of these two groups.

August 15, 2022

Students Recap Their Title V Summer Internship

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

May 25, 2022

Mental Health Awareness Month

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.