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.
HSI Newsletter | October 2019
Statement on Achieving HSI Designation for UC Davis
October 1, 2019 – UC Davis has fully embraced our journey toward achieving Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) designation as part of our ongoing commitment to the success of students and to our mission as a California public, research intensive and land grant university. Our enrollments of Chicanx/Latinx students have been steadily increasing since 2008, when UC Davis set its goal to become a HSI.
The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession established the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards in 1991 to celebrate female lawyers for their professional accomplishments and support of other women in the legal profession. The annual awards are given in honor of Margaret Brent, the first female lawyer who arrived in the colonies in 1638. She was a master negotiator, an accomplished litigator and a prominent figure in Maryland.
HSI Newsletter | August 2019
AT UC DAVISPrep Medico Graduates its 2019 Class
On Saturday, July 27, the UC Davis School of Medicine’s six week summer Prep Médico program graduated its 2019 cohort of undergraduate students pursuing their dream of becoming doctors.
In Fall 2018, LPPI launched a rapid-response policy project to address California’s Latino Physician Crisis; a crisis, that if left unaddressed will take 5 centuries to remedy.
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, a thought leader in reducing health disparities and building strong communities, was recently appointed to the National Advisory Council of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation.
This news release can be found on the California Healthline website.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed bold steps to ensure more Californians have health coverage, but a new report underscores that his success may depend in part on large-scale investments to expand the state’s health care workforce.
This news release can be found on the American Council on Education (ACE) website.
A seminal ACE report explores the evolving state of race and ethnicity in the higher education landscape and shows that while the number of students of color on our nation’s college and university campuses continues to rise, gaps in access, attainment, and debt levels remain.
