2022 Symposium

HDR Annual Symposium 2022 (Virtual)

Addressing health disparities, environmental justice, and moving towards health equity

This research symposium will be an opportunity for UCR campus community researchers and community members to learn about the center, our mission, and current research that is taking place.

Keynote speakers:

Carrie Breton Sc.D and Gabriel Maldonado, MBA

Carrie Breton is an associate professor of Preventative Medicine in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. She is an environmental epidemiologist, and leads an interdisciplinary program of research focused on understanding the long-term health risks for cardiovascular, respiratory and metabolic diseases. She directs the Maternal And Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center and the USC site for the Environmental Influences of Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program, both of which are housed in the Environmental Health Division in the Department of Preventive Medicine.

Gabriel Maldonado is the Founder and CEO of TruEvolution — a social justice and community health organization advancing the quality of life and human dignity of LGBTQ people based in Riverside, California. As a former member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS under President Obama, Gabriel works to elevate the representation of minority community-based organizations in state and federal policy priorities. In addition to his work at TruEvolution, Gabriel continues his advocacy serving on regional boards, such as Borrego Community Health Foundation and global organizations such as the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

Symposium tentative schedule

Please note: This schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Downloadable symposium program

Thursday February 24, 2022

12:30-12:40pm	Dean Welcome Deborah Deas, M.D., M.P.H, SOM Dean
12:40-1:00pm	Welcome and Introduction from the Co-Directors David Lo, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean for Research, SOM Juliet McMullin, Ph.D., Professor, Anthropology
1:00-2:00pm	Keynote Speaker Presentation: Investigating the Interplay Between Environmental and Social Stressors on Material and Child Health Carrie Breton Sc.D, University of Southern California
2:00-2:10pm	BREAK
2:10-2:20pm 2:20-2:25pm 2:25-2:40pm 2:40-2:45pm 2:45-2:55pm 2:55-3:00pm 3:00-3:10pm	FIRST, Clinical and CFF Awards FIRST Healing the Academy: Addressing Mental Health Disparities Among Underrepresented Graduate Students Evelyn Vazquez, Ph.D., Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health Financial/Legal Disparities Among Southern California Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors Deborah Lefkowitz, Ph.D., School of Public Policy CLINICAL A Tele-Health Model of Screening for Autism in Under-Resourced Communities: Closing the Gap in Access Katherine Stavropoulos, Ph.D., Graduate School of Education CFF Field Testing to Determine Best Practices for Community-Accessible Remediation of Soil Contamination to Reduce Metal Exposures Danielle Stevenson, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Toxicology The Role of Ethnic Discrimination on the Development of Anxious Hypervigilance in Latinx Youth Kalina Michalska, Ph.D., Psychology Effects on Mental Health of News Media Coverage of Police Violence against Black Women Allison Monterrosa, Ph.D., California State University, San Marcos Q&A Session (10 minutes)
3:10-3:15pm	BREAK
3:15-3:30pm 3:30-3:45pm 3:45-3:55pm 3:55-4:05pm 4:05-4:15pm	A) Research Updates - 5 year, R01 Projects Childhood Asthma and Salton Sea David Lo, M.D., Ph.D., School of Medicine Childhood Obesity Ann Cheney, Ph.D., Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health Alison Tovar, Ph.D., Brown University B) Shifting IRWGs to PIC Awards - Stories on how to move to the next level *Contextualizing Latinx Children’s Developing Psychopathology: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Sociocultural and Psychological Processes Contributing to Health Disparities in Anxiety* Elizabeth Davis, Ph.D., Psychology *How We Heal: Structural Racism in Health Care* Moazzum Bajwa, M.D., Department of Family Medicine Q&A Session
4:20-5:20 pm	Workshop: Better Understanding Racism Through an Interrogation of Racial Classification in Research and Practice Yolanda Moses ,Ph.D., Anthropology Bruce Link, Ph.D., Public Policy, and Sociology Taylor Hargrove, Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5:20-5:30pm	BREAK
5:30-6:30pm	Keynote Speaker Presentation: *Coming Over the Rainbow: Stigma & Tools of Resilience* Gabriel Maldonado, MBA, Founder and CEO, TruEvolution

Friday February 25, 2022

11:00-11:10am	Welcome from the Co-Directors David Lo, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean for Research, SOM Juliet McMullin, Ph.D., Professor, Anthropology
11:10am-12:30pm	Publishing Health Disparities Research \| Featuring editors from: Farzana Kapadia, Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Public Health Bettina Beech, Associate Editor for the Journal Ethnicity Catherine Panter, Senior Editor, Social Science & Medicine
12:30-1:00pm	BREAK
1:00-2:00pm	COVID Research in the Inland Empire Jenna LeComte-Hinely, Ph.D., HARC
2:00-2:10pm 2:10-2:15pm 2:15-2:25pm 2:25-2:40pm	COVID-19, Advances and Challenges: HDR projects A) COVID HDR Awards A Solution to Halt Further Isolation of People Aging with HIV During the COVID-19 Pandemic Jeff Taylor, HIV+Aging Research Project-Palm Springs Christopher Christensen, HIV+Aging Research Project-Palm Springs Community Spread and Dynamics of the COVID-19 in Southern California: Effects of Human Mobility and Access to Testing and Care Ran Wei, Ph.D., School of Public Policy Yuija Zhang, Ph.D., Center for Geospatial Sciences Correlates of Child and Parent Health and Well-Being during COVID-19 in the Inland Empire Jan Blacher, Ph.D. Graduate School of Education STOP COVID 19, CA - CEAL PROJECT Michelle Burroughs, M.P.H., Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health Ann Cheney, Ph.D., Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health Juliet McMullin, Ph.D., Anthropology Maria Conchita Pozar, Center for Health Disparities Ashley Moran, Student Researcher, Center for Health Disparities Evelyn Vazquez, Ph.D., Social Medicine, Population, and Public Health Sherri Salgado, Riverside/San Bernardino Indian Health, Inc. Regina Stell, Ph.D., NAACP Riverside Branch
2:40-3:00pm	Closing Remarks Bruce Link, Ph.D., Public Policy, and Sociology
3:00-3:10pm	Center Closing David Lo, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean for Research, SOM

School of Medicine Center for Health Disparities Research (HDR@UCR)