WALS- Type 2 Diabetes among Asian-Americans: Elevated Prevalence and Novel Risk Factors
Maria Rosario (Happy) G. Araneta, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, Division of Epidemiology. She received her BA in Biology from UCSD and her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology (with special emphasis in Perinatal Epidemiology) from Yale University. Dr. Araneta received the 2014 American Diabetes Association ’ s Vivian Fonseca Scholar Award for her research on diabetes among Asians and Pacific Islanders, and serves on the NIH Advisory Council for the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities. Asian Americans continue to be the fastest growing immigrant group in the las...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 1, 2024 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
(Un)fit to Nurse: Efficiency and Discipline at the Philippine General Hospital, 1898 – 1916
On August 29, 1916, a strike of over 100 student nurses erupted at the Philippine General Hospital, placing its operations at a standstill for two days. The student nurses rallied around the suicide of fellow student Florentina Papa, alleging the disciplinary culture of the hospital was at fault. Tensions between the students and the administrators, however, had been escalating since May when the director of the hospital mandated more intensive physical training into the curriculum to improve the efficiency of nursing services. This presentation explores the strike amidst the formative years of Philippine nursing under the...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Life after Lockdown: Pandemic Perspectives from Peru
The Journal of the Plague Year: A COVID-19 Archive is a digital, open access, crowdsourced archive collecting pandemic stories. Since its inception in March 2020, the archival team made efforts to intentionally collect pandemic stories in ethical, inclusive ways. In particular, it shows what we gain when we intentionally build digital humanities projects that expand beyond academic institutions and audiences. The COVID-19 archive successfully partnered with universities, libraries, and contributors across the global south including the Philippines, American Samoa, India, and Peru. Peru had one of the earliest, strictest, a...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 11, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
