Category: Program Updates

Fall 2025 Incarceration and Health Justice Laura Beth Bugg Incarceration is widely recognized as a significant public health challenge, deeply intertwined with broader issues of health equity and social justice. Correctional facilities house a disproportionately high number of individuals with chronic physical conditions, mental illness, and substance use disorders, reflecting both pre-existing health disparities and…

“Comadrona” is a three-part podcast that served as a senior thesis for GCH B.A. student, Naomi Delaplane-Yusem in Spring 2025. In this project, she explored how Indigenous midwifery continues to thrive in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, despite the rise of medicalized models of care, particularly in women’s health. She wanted her thesis to be grounded in creativity and…

Each year, the Global and Community Health Program and the University Library host the “Envisioning Health For All” student photography exhibit, showcasing student submissions from across campus that represent global and community health topics.  Our five winners were honored at our opening reception in the UC Santa Cruz McHenry Library on Thursday, May 22, 2025.…

Natalia Benitez is a Global and Community Health major in her final year at UC Santa Cruz. Initially a Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology student, she pivoted to GCH after recognizing the need for a more inclusive and community-focused approach to health, an experience that motivated her to graduate a year early. Her work as…

This University of California Research & Innovation article features recent research led by Matthew Sparke, UC Santa Cruz politics professor and co-director of the Global and Community Health Program, that aims to empower farmworkers to protect themselves with knowledge of farm and environmental conditions, worker protections, and health information.