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Prep Médico 2020 Cohort Applications Due

The UC Davis Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Prep Médico program is now accepting applications for the summer 2020 cohort.

Apply now through March 1, 2020 (click here for application).

Ton selected as UC Davis Health Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Hendry Ton, M.D., M.S., has been selected as UC Davis Health’s new Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Transforming Refugee Mental Health: Focus Group Findings on Migrant Legal-Mental Health Intersectionality

On October 25, 2019, Raquel E. Aldana, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and Professor of Law, and Dr. Patrick Marius Koga, Director of the Refugee Health Research in the Department of Public Health Sciences, hosted their second forum on migration and trauma at UC Davis.

Gary S. May greets his guests at a Feb. 27 reception around the presentation of the Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity and Community. (Karin Higgins/UC Davis)

Call for Nominations: Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity and Community, 2020

Nominations are being requested to help identify individuals deserving special recognition through a campus wide award program.

2019 ADVANCE Scholar Award

Recap of the ADVANCE Scholar award symposium for 2019

Discovering Curiosity: The Tangled Fate of Math and Biology with Professor Mariel Vazquez

The life's work of our very own CAMPOS Faculty Director Mariel Vazquez is featured in a terrific article written by the College of Biological Sciences. Please have a read:

https://biology.ucdavis.edu/news/discovering-curiosity-tangled-fate-math-and-biology-professor-mariel-vazquez

Looking for UCAN Student Ambassadors

The UC Office of the President is seeking student ambassadors to engage more students in advocacy through the UC Advocacy Network (UCAN).

Latino Leadership Council honors Prep Médico for program's role in advancing health across Latinx communities

Prep Médico, an innovative partnership program of UC Davis Health, Kaiser Permanente and The Permanente Medical Group to boost the number of doctors who care for Latinx communities in California, was recently honored with a Quetzal Award from the Latino Leadership Council.

New Faculty Director for the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is delighted to announce Dr. Mariel Vazquez as the new Faculty Director of the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science (CAMPOS). Dr. Vazquez is a member of the founding cohort of CAMPOS Scholars, having been inducted in 2014.

Announcing the 2019-2020 Campus Community Book Project Program

In its eighteenth year, the book project will address the theme of violence-gun violence and features Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge.