Year: 2017

On Friday, August 18, 2017, at the historic LA City Hall in Downtown, Dr. Jonathan Samet and Dr. Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati were recognized by the City of Los Angeles General Attorney, Mike Feuer, and councilmember Mitch O’Farrell along with other City Council Members. They were recognized for their efforts against big tobacco industry through research and…Continue Reading LA City Council and City Attorney’s Office Recognized Public Health Tobacco Control, Prevention Research Heroes of Keck School of Medicine of USC

In the last three decades, Chile has witnessed a considerable influx of immigrants, the majority from other Latin American countries. These individuals may experience a particular vulnerability and unique set of social determinants that affect their health and well-being, thus creating a need for research in this area. Through collaboration with the Center for Health…Continue Reading 8/30/2017 – Immigrant Visions & Voices: A Photovoice Exploration of Health in Chile

Las disciplinas académicas requieren de una base conceptual que guíe su desarrollo. En este curso se discuten los conceptos fundamentales de la salud pública. Como punto de partida, se analizan las diferencias y puntos de integración entre la biomedicina, la medicina clínica y la salud pública. Se identifica a la salud pública como un campo…Continue Reading Conceptos fundamentales de la salud pública (INSP Curso por WebEx y YouTube)

CenHealth is proud to announce its 2017 Ambassador Brigade Fellow: Madelyn Perez. To learn more about our fellows click on our Ambassador Brigade Fellowship page. We are also proud to announce our Travel Award Scholarship Recipients for Summer 2017: Hagar Azab, Brooke Van Kummer, and Kasra Behizad. To learn more our awardees on the Travel…Continue Reading 2017 CenHealth Ambassador Brigade Fellows and Travel Award Recipients!!!!

A paid internship opportunity is available for USC undergraduate students during the Summer or Fall of 2017 to work with TCORS Project 2: “Maximizing Retailers’ Responsiveness to FDA Regulatory Authority in Minority Communities” at the Institute for Prevention Research, Keck School of Medicine of USC. This is a great internship opportunity for students to work…Continue Reading Paid Internship Opportunity for USC Undergraduate Students with Project 2: “Maximizing Retailers’ Responsiveness to FDA Regulatory Authority in Minority Communities”

We would like to Congratulate, Traci Gillig, a doctoral student (ABD) in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, who received the Richard Cone Community Service Award for Graduate Engaged Research from USC Dornsife’s Joint Educational Project. The award recognized her ongoing partnership with Brave Trails, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization hosting an annual summer…Continue Reading Congratulations to Traci Gillig

We are super excited to share that our CenHealth director, Dr. Lourdes Baezconde Garbanati received a USC Mentoring Award in the Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students category.  The USC Mentoring Awards honor individual faculty members for helping to build a supportive academic environment through faculty-to-student mentoring and faculty-to-faculty mentoring. Faculty who receive this award have made a significant and…Continue Reading Congratulations to Dr. Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati for receiving a USC Mentoring Award!

In this USC Immigrant Health Initiative seminar, Cynthia Willard, medical director for the Program for Torture Victims in Los Angeles, will discuss health issues asylum seekers face. An assistant clinical professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, she is developing an asylum medicine program in the Department of Family Medicine, drawing upon her…Continue Reading 04/25/17 – Health Issues in Asylum Seekers

Mexican immigrants have lower smoking rates than U.S.-born Mexicans, and some scholars attribute this to health selection, the concept that individuals who migrate are healthier and have better health behaviors than their non-migrant counterparts. This is often indirectly measured by comparing U.S.-born Mexicans to recent Mexican immigrants, however, that comparison neglects several important factors. Using…Continue Reading 04/03/17 – Smoking Selectivity among Mexican Immigrants using Binational Data