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SUMMARY:Luskin Lecture on Substance Use Prevention
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here: https://luskinlecturewithijeomaopara.eventbrite.com \nCheck-in and Reception will begin at 5:45 p.m. The lecture will start at 6:30 p.m. \nPart of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series \nIn a talk titled\, “Approaching Substance Use Prevention by Harnessing Black Girls’ Strengths\,” Yale University scholar Ijeoma Opara will delve into substance use prevention tailored to the unique challenges faced by Black girls\, harnessing their inherent strengths to achieve success. Many Black girls encounter intersecting societal pressures\, deal with stereotypes and often must overcome systemic inequalities. Shifting the narrative from deficits to strengths provides a proactive and empowering solution. Scholars and service providers can foster resilience\, confidence and a sense of agency through a strengths-based approach\, equipping Black girls with the knowledge and confidence they need to make informed\, healthy choices. By highlighting evidence-based strategies that draw upon the inherent strengths within Black girls\, the approach advocated by Opara bolsters cultural pride\, fosters community engagement and mentorship\, and encourages self-expression while also discouraging substance misuse. \nAbout Dr. Ijeoma Opara \nIjeoma Opara PhD is an associate professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale University’s School of Public Health and the director of its Substances and Sexual Health (SASH) effort. Opara has given several talks across the country about her work highlighting strengths of Black girls and prevention research. The author of more than 60 publications\, she has been published in high impact journals such as AIDS & Behavior\, Nature and Urban Education. \nShe is an award-winning scientist whose recognitions include the Woman of Impact award from the Community Healthcare Network-Nigeria\, the 2020 National Institutes of Health Early Independence Award\, and a Memorial Advocacy Award from the American Public Health Association. Her currently funded research includes a project on machine-learning methods with youths of color in New Jersey. \nA licensed social worker who has worked primarily with youth and families of color in urban cities\, Opara received her doctorate in family science and human development from Montclair State University\, a master’s in social work from New York University and a master’s in public health in epidemiology from New York Medical College. Her bachelor’s is New Jersey City University. \nLand and Labor Acknowledgement \nAs a land grant institution\, UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin\, So. Channel Islands) and are grateful to have the opportunity to work for the taraaxotam (Indigenous peoples) in this place. We pay our respects to Honuukvetam (Ancestors)\, elders\, and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past\, present and emerging. \nWe hold sacred the labor of enslaved Africans and immigrants\, often exploited\, indentured and underpaid\, that built and continue to serve our institutions of higher education.  We honor the labor and resistance  of these ancestors\, acknowledge that we benefit from this land and labor\, and strive to work towards liberation for all.
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/luskin-lecture-featuring-ijeoma-opara
LOCATION:California Nanosystems Institute\, UCLA Campus\, 570 Westwood Plaza \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1656\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Impact,Diversity,For Faculty,For Students,Global Public Affairs,Public Policy,Social Welfare,Social Welfare PhD,Undergraduate,Urban Planning
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SUMMARY:'Accessibility\, Social Equity\, and Contemporary Policy Debates'
DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE \nPart of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series. \nRobert Cervero works in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning. He has consulted on numerous transportation and urban planning projects worldwide\, most recently advising long-range planning in Dubai and Singapore. His most recent book\, Beyond Mobility\, won the 2019 National Urban Design Best Book Award. Dr. Cervero was a member of Berkeley’s city and regional planning faculty from 1980 to 2016\, where he twice served as Department Chair\, was the inaugural holder of the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies\, and directed both the University of California Transportation Center and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. More recently he has held visiting faculty appointments at Tongji University in Shanghai and NYU-Abu Dhabi. During his doctoral studies in urban planning at UCLA\, he worked under the supervision of his long-time mentor\, Martin Wachs. \nMartin Wachs’ seminal 1973 paper on accessibility as a social construct continues to influence urban planning policy and practice a half-century later. It also shaped a generation of research on\, broadly speaking\, the ‘transport-land use connection’\, including my own. This talk probes a number of policy initiatives that implicitly aim to enhance physical access but for which social equity has been at best secondary and all too often an afterthought. Included here are regional jobs-housing balance initiatives\, reverse-commute transit services\, transit-oriented development (TOD)\, and formalization of public transport in a developing world context. Here I’ll revisit my own past work as well as that of others on such policy initiatives\, drawing from global experiences\, both empirically and inferentially. Policy reforms for advancing both physical access and social equity are reviewed and critiqued. The popularized movement toward the 15-minute city\, for example\, suggests a future of increased micro-mobility\, creating new types of accessibility challenges\, such as curb-access management. Implications of unfolding megatrends on accessibility and social equity in an increasingly resource-constrained\, public-health conscientious world are discussed. \n\n\n\n\nCheck-in begins at 5:30pm with the discussion following at 6:00pm. \nPublic transportation: Big Blue Bus (Routes 2 and 17)\, Culver CityBus (Line 6)\, Metro \nRidehailing locations: Gateway Plaza\, Luskin Conference Center \nOn-site parking available for $14 (Lot 2\, Lot 8) \nThe Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution\, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors)\, ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past\, present and emerging.
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/accessibility-social-equity-and-contemporary-policy-debates
LOCATION:California Nanosystems Institute\, UCLA Campus\, 570 Westwood Plaza \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1656\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni,School of Public Affairs
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SUMMARY:Mpox and HIV as Viruses of Ongoing Colonial Violence
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed.\nHIV emerged in humans around 1900 in what was then the Belgian Congo. Researchers first described mpox (MPV)\, often referred to as monkeypox\, in humans in 1970 in The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Both of these viruses emerged in a global and local political context that cannot be removed from their biomedical history. The first half of this talk details this history and considers the causes of these catastrophes to better understand how to prevent them. This work uses molecular epidemiology and a historical analysis including oral histories\, co-authored with a Congolese human rights lawyer\, Ngofeen Mputubwele. In the second half of this UCLA Luskin Lecture\, Osmundson will detail his work with New York City to provide MPV vaccines on site at commercial sex venues. The causes of epidemics are global\, and their solutions local; however\, MPV vaccines are still not globally available\, restricting global communities’ ability to protect themselves. \nJoseph Osmundson is a scientist\, writer\, and activist. He has a PhD in Molecular Biophysics from The Rockefeller University\, where he studied bacteriophage viruses\, was an American Cancer Society postdoc in bioinformatics at NYU\, and is now a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at NYU. His writing has been published in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, and elsewhere\, and his book VIROLOGY came out in June. As a science advocate\, he’s worked on equitable access to biomedicine and research to fill gaps in knowledge\, particularly that affect the pre-existing viral underclass. \n  \nRSVP required for admittance. \nAdmission is free\, but registration is required for each attendee. \nParking \nPublic transportation: Big Blue Bus (Routes 2 and 17)\, Culver CityBus (Line 6)\, Metro \nRidehailing locations: Gateway Plaza\, Luskin Conference Center \nOn-site parking available for $14 (Lot 2\, Lot 8) \n 
URL:https://luskin.ucla.edu/event/monkeypox-and-hiv-as-viruses-of-ongoing-colonial-violence
LOCATION:California Nanosystems Institute\, UCLA Campus\, 570 Westwood Plaza \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1656\, United States
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