Events
Diversity Celebration Speaker Series - The Health of Refugees and Homeless Populations
Join us as we celebrate National Minority Health Month with Dr. Caren Frost, University of Utah, Dr. Thomas Buckley, University of Connecticut, and Jacqui Smith, MSW, CSUMB, as they discuss current research & innovative programming for refugees and homeless populations.
Diversity Celebration Speaker Series - Celebrating African American History Month
Please join us for our guest speakers: Glenn Ellis, MPH, National Syndicated Health Columnist and Radio Host, and President, Strategies for Well-Being and Sarah Collins-Rudolph, Social Justice Activist, Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.
Diversity Celebration Speaker Series-World AIDS Day
In recognition of World AIDS Day and Hepatitis C Awareness, the college hosts Darriane Martin, Manager, HIV Prevention, AltaMed Health Services Corporation and Oscar Lopez, Director of Education, Valley AIDS Council, serving Harlingen, TX.
Diversity Celebration Speaker Series
The college celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with invited speakers: Dr. Lilia Espinoza, PhD, MPH, of CSU Fullerton, Dr. Selenea Nguyen-Rodriguez, PhD, MPH, and Dr. Melawhy Garcia-Vega, PhD, MPH, both of CSU Long Beach.
Dr. Ruth Zambrana discusses Latino Families & Their Health Across the Life Cycle
Ruth Enid Zambrana is Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies, Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity and adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine. Zambrana’s work focuses on the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, nativity and structural inequality with a focus on health and higher education. She is Principal Investigator of a study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled "Understanding the Relationship between Work Stress at U.S. Research Institutions’ Failure to Retain Underrepresented Minority (URM) Faculty."
Diversity Celebration Speaker Series
Kathy Ko Chin, president & CEO of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), spearheads the organization's efforts to influence policy, mobilize communities and strengthen organizations to improve the health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AAs and NHPIs). Recognized as an authority on national health policy, Kathy is a renowned voice for the Asian American community and served on the President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Lunch with Representative James E. Clyburn
Representative Clyburn has served Congress since 1993 and as the Assistant Democratic Leader since 2011. In this role, he is the third-ranking democrat in the House behind House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer.
