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The UCR School of Medicine’s Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) and Inland Empire Street Medicine (IESM) program partnered with Temalpakh Farms, run by the Augustine Band of the Cahuilla Indians in the Coachella Valley, to host a two-day nutrition presentation for Nova Academy High School students on April 15-16. The...
The Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) has announced that the Inland Empire Street Medicine (IESM) is the recipient of $5,000 as part of their annual mini grant program. In its fifth year, the program has disbursed more than $40,000 to community medicine and population health projects. IESM's program, "Changing the...
The UC Riverside School of Medicine Center for Healthy Communities has announced its 2023 mini-grants awardees. Each recipient was awarded a $5,000 mini-grant to support projects focused on community medicine and population health. The San Bernardino Free Clinic (SBFC) – Healing Hearts Initiative Led by first-year UC Riverside School of...
Ann Cheney, PhD, has been named the recipient of the UC Riverside School of Medicine's 2022 Outstanding Mentor of the Year award. The award is in recognition of a faculty member's outstanding contributions to mentoring other faculty, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and/or students. The announcement was made at the School of...
A new project led by Evelyn Vázquez, Ph.D. a faculty member in the UC Riverside School of Medicine’s Department of Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health (SMPPH) to improve the mental health of graduate students has received a two-year funding award of nearly $250,000 from the Eugene Washington Patient-Centered Outcomes...
The Community Medicine and Population Health Mini-Grant program, sponsored by the UCR School of Medicine's Center for Healthy Communities, has announced its recipients for the 2021-22 academic year. The recipients are “Addressing Cardiovascular Health Through Nutrition and Food Access in Underserved Communities” and “Mutual Aid as a Strategy of Increasing...
The Center for Healthy Communities at the UC Riverside School of Medicine has announced the recipients of its Community Medicine and Population Health Mini-Grant program. The 2020 recipients are: UnDocuHealth Ambassadors Program Led by Marlene Chavez Martinez, the program will train and equip a team of 10 immigrant individuals from...
