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Fulbright grantee leverages her training and experience – and a passion for travel – to test new models for prenatal care in Cali, Colombia.
As interest in global health grows rapidly among practicing and aspiring clinicians, faculty from UCSF Global Health Sciences and UCSF School of Nursing seek ways to ensure that the interest translates into real health improvements.
Abbey Alkon, director of the UCSF California Childcare Health Program, led a multidisciplinary team to create an award-winning toolkit that helps child care centers reduce their use of potentially toxic pesticides.
Evidence-based resource for parents helps them manage their children’s postoperative pain at home.
The innovative use of Indiegogo crowdfunding supports midwifery services and training in Guatemala.
The UCSF schools of nursing and dentistry join the national Elev8 effort to improve health care for underserved Oakland middle school students.
Sausalito’s “anchor-outs” are a diverse group of individuals, many of whom live on low incomes, on run-down boats. Last fall, a group of UCSF nursing students joined an effort to meet the anchor-outs’ unmet health needs.
UCSF School of Nursing Professor Roberta Rehm offers nine research-based ideas for families.
Doctoral student hopes to develop strategies to reduce smoking and heart disease in his native Jordan.
A Fulbright-funded exchange program seeks to improve the care of marginalized populations and underserved people from distinct parts of the globe.
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