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CHARM Investigator Esteban Burchard Featured on KQED
CHARM Faculty member Esteban Burchard and SFSU - UCSF SFBUILD scholar Maria Contreras were featured in a BuzzFeed article, #ScienceSoWhite Threatens The Health Of People Of Color, Researchers Say.
The BiggerPicture's short film “Home Flavored” aka “A Taste of Home” starring Monica Mendoza and directed by Jamie DeWolf won the Real Food Media Grand Prize!
CHARM Project 1 Lead Dr. Esteban Burchard was featured in a Newsweek article "The Racial Discrimination Embedded in Modern Medicine"
CVP Core Faculty and co-founder Dr. Dean Schillinger was featured in a Washington Post article on the new Sugar Science project at UCSF. Click here to visit the new SugareScience.org website.
A new video from the Medi-Cal Incentives to Quit Smoking (MIQS) Project demonstrates how providers can share with their patients about smoking cessation
San Francisco State University and UCSF, through the Center for Vulnerable Populations, was recently awarded $17 million from the NIH to increase graduation rates for underrepresented minorities in science.
Dr. Dean Schillinger, CHARM ECHO Core PI recently had an Op-Ed piece published in the San Francisco Chronicle on Measure E, the proposed tax on sugar sweetened beverages in San Francisco
CVP Core Faculty member Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS will be part of a panel discussion presented by the Berkeley Food Institute Food Exchange Series: The Paradox of Obesity: Causes, Consequences and Social-economic Dimensions
CHARM project PI Esteban Burchard had his commentary, Missing Patients published in the science journal Nature
Youth Radio Article: Living in a Food Desert
Youth Radio’s Health & Wellness Department Interns went on a photo walking tour around downtown Oakland
From KQED Radio - A SFGH Doctor's Perspective on Immigrants Fleeing Central America and Coming to SFGH
Youth Radio Article on Asthma: "Breath-Taking: My Experience With Asthma"
Watch CHARM sub project PI Esteban Burchard's Discovery Talk at UCSF Alumni Weekend: Using Genetic Ancestry vs. Racial/Ethnic Classification to Identify Novel Therapeutic Targets for Asthma and Other Common Diseases
CVP Director Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS was quoted in a new article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Study emphasizes role of exercise in controlling weight
CHARM PI Esteban Burchard and his team's research inspired a recent story in Science magazine
The Bigger Picture featured in a recent article on the Diabetes Mine website
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) announced the appointment of CHARM PI Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Ph.D., M.D., as co-vice chair
Watch a Bigger Picture presentation at Institute of Medicine meeting on the Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health
CVP Director Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS will be awarded the SGIM Mid-Career Mentoring award for 2014 at the upcoming SGIM National Meeting in April
Dr. Esteban Burchard presented at the Smithsonian Institute African Diaspora: Integrating Culture, Genomics and History Symposium
CHARM Lead Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo's research is featured on UCSF's news site - "Minorities’ Health Would Benefit Most from Beverage Sugar Tax, UCSF Researchers Report"
The Bigger Picture featured on the American Journal of Preventive Medicine's Blog!
CHARM funded research reports, "Higher BMI Linked with Early Kidney Function Decline in Young Adults"
CDC releseases new "CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report — United States, 2013"
2 New Video PSAs available to view from The Bigger Picture!
Youth Radio Health Career Panel
Pediatric Grand Rounds on unique program - wrestling in schools to combat bullying and obesity
The Bigger Picture Launched two new PSAs at the California Healthy Beverage Summit!
Bigger Picture Project Director, Sarah Fine Interviewed on Mac-n-Mo's Blog
Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults - Infographic and Report from IOM
Slides available from PBRN Webinar on "Engaging Hard to Reach Adolescent Patients in Primary Care"
Article from CIR, "Fast food: Students struggle with healthy options in short lunch periods"
Center for Investigative Reporting article, "Open-campus policy eats away at school nutrition effort"
Article from Psychiatric News Alert, "Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Increased in Youth Taking Antipsychotics, Study Finds"
Tenderloin PhotoVoice Project
Youth Radio Correspondent Eyama Harris reports: PTSD Isn't Just A War Wound; Teens Suffer, Too
Youth Radio - The BMI Is Not For Me
Youth Radio reports: High Fructose Corn Syrup - A Dangerous Ingredient
Article from Voicewaves, "Students Mull Over Effects of Health Class Cuts"
Article from UNINC, "Kids Have Fun Exercising at Mountain View "
Article on 'Adjusting to life with diabetes' from AccessLocal.TV
Preventing Youth Smoking
At-Home Genetics Tests
Genetic screening may redefine medical treatments
Ancestry study could lead to better asthma treatments
Is There A Biological Basis For Race?

Events

Monday, October 20, 2014

CVP Core Faculty member Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS will be part of a panel discussion presented by the Berkeley Food Institute Food Exchange Series: The Paradox of Obesity: Causes, Consequences and Social-economic Dimensions
Friday, July 11, 2014

Join us for a free exhibition showcasing photography taken by youth from the Tenderloin PhotoVoice Project!
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Come join the online conversation on Technology and Vulnerable Populations at the Innovation HealthJam!
Thursday, April 10, 2014

San Francisco Food Security Hearing on April 10th 3-5 pm at City Hall
Thursday, April 3, 2014

2014 Food & Farm Film Fest - See the Premier of the Newest Bigger Picture Film!
Friday, March 21, 2014

CVP Seminar Series: Balancing Treatment Outcomes and Medication Burden among Patients with Symptomatic Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Friday, February 21, 2014

CVP Seminar Series: Addressing Tobacco Use among Young Adults in Bars with Dr. Pam Ling Associate Professor at UCSF
Saturday, February 22, 2014

3rd Annual Childhood Obesity Bay Area Conference
Monday, February 3, 2014

CVP Seminar Series: Brie Williams - "Addressing the Aging Crisis in the U.S. Criminal Justice System"
Friday, January 17, 2014

CVP Seminar Series: Rebecca Sudore - "Redefining the Planning in Advance Care Planning: Preparation for Medical Decision Making"
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

CVP Seminar Series: Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD Associate Professor NYU - “What Doctors Feel” excerpts from her book
Monday, December 2, 2013

CVP Seminar Series: "Readiness and capacity of adult ESL classrooms for diabetes prevention work with immigrant communities" - Maricel Santos, Ed. D.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Special Presentation sponsored by the CVP Health Communications Program: "The Language of Biomedicine" - Alexa McCay, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Monday, November 4, 2013

CVP Seminar: Christina Mangurian - "Improving Metabolic Screening of Diverse Populations with Severe Mental Illness"
Friday, October 18, 2013

CVP Seminar Series: Tung Nguyen - “It’s Not Bedside to Community: Hepatitis B Control as an Example of Interventions to Eliminate Health Disparities”
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Youth Speaks - Life is Living
Monday, October 7, 2013

CVP Seminar Series Presents: Rochelle Dicker - "Community Violence Prevention - Trauma Wrap-Around Program" 10/7 3:45 - 5pm
Friday, September 27, 2013

Live Bigger Picture poet performance at the Bayview Heal Zone Outdoor Dinner
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Dr. Sam Oh will be giving Grand Rounds at Oakland Children's Hospital Tuesday September 24th at 8am
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The Bigger Picture - presented by The UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, the NIH/NIMHD funded Comprehensive Center of Excellence for Health And Risk in Minority Youth and young adults (CHARM) and Youth Speaks

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