BRITE Center Students Antonio Shallowhorn and Justin Kwok will present their work on the Identification of Opportunity Factors to Increase Black, Breast Cancer Survivors’ Usage of Acupuncture.

APHA’s Annual Meeting & Exposition serves as the home for public health professionals to convene, learn, network and engage with peers. Dr Mays and BRITE Center participants will present on the following topics at this year’s APHA meeting:

• Racial/Ethnic Differences in Perceived Need for Mental Health Care
• Sexual orientation, relationship status, and mental health/substance use morbidity: Results from the California Quality of Life Surveys
• Increasing Acupuncture Utilization As An Adjunct Treatment in African American Breast Cancer Survivors
• Mental health correlates of sexual orientation concealment and disclosure in the California Quality of Life Survey

Center Director Vickie Mays will speak as part of a panel Thursday, April 30, from 12 to 1:30 p.m on the health, economic, and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black communities during a virtual town hall meeting presented by the Minority Health Institute.

• Richard Allen Williams, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP*President and Founder, Minority Health Institute Clinical Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Past President, National Medical Association Founder, Association of Black Cardiologists
• David Pryor, MD MPH, Regional Vice President, Medical Director, Anthem
• Jehan (Gigi) El-Bayoumi, MD, FACP, Founding Director, Rodham Institute Professor of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
• Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, President, American Medical Association
• Oliver T. Brooks, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Watts HealthCare Corporation President, National Medical Association
• Muntu Davis, MD, MPH, County Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
• Gustavo Friederichsen, CEO, Los Angeles County Medical Association
• Lisa Barkley, MD, FAAFP, FSAHM, FACSM, Chair and Program Director, Family Medicine Residency, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
• Mia Keeys, MA, Director of Health Equity Policy & Advocacy, American Medical Association
• Reverend J. Edgar Boyd, Pastor, First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the UCLA Health Black Leadership Coalition and the UCLA Health Office of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and demands to end longtime systemic inequality.

Click here to view a recording of the event (Passcode: RHH*xKi9).

Click here for the program itinerary.

Join us in making a pledge to talk to 3 people in your network about COVID-19 for a MLK Day of Service!

We also hope that you will participate in a day of service by talking with three people in your network, especially your family about their questions about the vaccine and share with them what you have learned. On Monday, January 18th as a part of this UCLA Day of Service, Dr. Briggs-Malonson of UCLA Health will organize a group of Black physicians and scientists to answer questions that your family/network may have about the vaccine in general, at 3 PM PST.

[THIS EVENT IS NOW COMPLETED. WE WILL SHARE A VIDEO RECORDING SHORTLY]

For more Q&A please visit www.uclahealth.org/covid-19-faqs