Leadership in Action: Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Student Milestones
Monica McLemore Speaks to Racism’s Impact on Maternal Health on NPR
Assistant Professor of Family Health Care Nursing Monica McLemore was featured on a recent National Public Radio (NPR) segment titled “This Racism Is Killing Me Inside,” on the impact racism can have on health. McLemore spoke about her work with black mothers and their experiences of disrespect and racially based expectations during pregnancy and childbirth.
Linda Franck and Monica McLemore Video on Research Protocol for Preterm Birth Initiative
Linda Franck (left) and Monica McLemore Linda Franck and Monica McLemore, both from the Department of Family Health Care Nursing, are among the authors of a new video and article with their Preterm Birth Initiative California community partners, published by the Journal of Visualized Experiments.
The article and video describe the new method Franck, McLemore and their colleagues developed to raise the voices of women at risk for preterm birth in strategy and decision making about preterm birth research. The open-access publishing of the protocol and training video are intended to drive more patient and public involvement in research, so that the questions asked by health researchers better reflect the urgent inquiries and priorities of the people most affected by the health conditions.
Annette Gardner’s Work on Interprofessional Teamwork Featured in New VA Publication
The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE) recently announced the release of Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education: Compendium of Five Case Studies: Lessons for Interprofessional Teamwork in Education and Workplace Learning Environments 2011-2016.
Annette Gardner (left) and Claire Brindis Annette Gardner, assistant adjunct professor and project director in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and a faculty member at the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, worked closely with the CoEPCE Coordinating Center to lead the project’s five legacy sites in developing this important resource.
Annette Gardner and Claire Brindis at WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice
Annette Gardner and Claire Brindis, director of the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, recently spoke at Stanford University’s WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice on how to evaluate advocacy effectiveness using frameworks and methods described in their new book, Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice (Stanford University Press, 2017).
Naomi Schapiro Gets Grant to Study Resilience Among Immigrant Youth
Naomi Schapiro Professor of Clinical Nursing Naomi Schapiro was awarded a Resource Allocation Program (RAP) grant in December to support a qualitative study, “Supporting Resilience Among Unaccompanied Immigrant Youth: Are School-Based Group Interventions Safe and Acceptable?” The grant will explore cultural and immigration-related factors affecting the safety and acceptability of school-based group interventions to promote resilience among Central American unaccompanied immigrant youth, many of whom have fled violence in their home countries and experienced additional trauma during the migration process.
Van Ta Park on Depression, Korean Drama in Mental Health
Van Ta Park Van Ta Park, associate professor of Community Health Systems, has published a paper, “Depression and Help-Seeking Among Native Hawaiian Women,” in the Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research. Park was also selected to be one of two oral presenters at the 16th Annual Community Health Symposium at Stanford University. Her presentation is titled “Korean Dramas – An Innovative, Non-Invasive, and Widely Available Tool for Global Community Education & Outreach on Precision Mental Health.” In addition, Park has received a mini-grant from the All of Us Research Program supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The purpose of the grant is to conduct outreach and education to the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
Barbara Koenig in KQED Science on Stem Cell Research Funding
Barbara Koenig In a January article in KQED Science, bioethicist Barbara Koenig, professor in the Institute for Health & Aging, discussed the problem of “overhyping” stem cell research’s promise for immediate cures and the need to invest wisely in initiatives with proven benefits for public health.
Mijung Park Appointed to Minority Fellowship Program National Advisory Committee
Mijung Park The American Nurses Association (ANA) Board of Directors has appointed Assistant Professor of Family Health Care Nursing Mijung Park to the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) National Advisory Committee. The goal of the MFP is to reduce health disparities and improve health care outcomes for racially and ethnically diverse populations by increasing the number of culturally competent behavioral health professionals available to underserved minority populations in the public and private nonprofit sectors, and in clinical and community-based organizations and institutions.
Maria Openshaw in Nursing Clio Blog
Maria Openshaw UCSF midwifery program alumna Maria Openshaw gave an interview in the Nursing Clio blog about her work with the School’s Global Action to Improve Nursing & Midwifery Care (GAIN) Initiative in Malawi. In the post “A Midwife for Every Woman: Maternal Healthcare in Malawi,” Maria explains her role as a nurse-midwife mentor, providing clinical teaching and support to nurse-midwife leaders in hospitals and health centers in the rural district of Neno.
Recent Publications
Characterizing Pediatric Non-Malarial Fever and Identifying the At-Risk Child in Rural Malawi (Ellen Scarr, Sally Rankin, Kimberly Baltzell), January 16, 2018
Chronic Hepatitis C Screening, Evaluation, and Treatment Update in the Age of Direct-Acting Antivirals (Miranda Surjadi), January 1, 2018
Patient and Family Centered Nursing Rounds as a Platform for Continuing Education of Nurses in a Rural Hospital in Haiti (Irene Ritterman, Sharon Rose, Sarah Meyer, Emily Hall, Sally Rankin, Kimberly Baltzell), January 2018
Changes in Specific Substance Involvement Scores Among SBIRT Recipients in an HIV Primary Care Setting (Carol Dawson-Rose, Yvette Cuca, Roland Zepf, Emily Huang, Bruce Cooper), December 12, 2017
Conceptualizing Pathways Linking Women’s Empowerment and Prematurity in Developing Countries (Molly Altman), November 8, 2017
