Vickie M. Mays
PhD, MSPH
Professor, Clinical Psychology, UCLA
Professor, Health Services, UCLA SPH
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Read Director's Letter…ing her tenure as the senate chair she managed to successfully double funds received from the UCLA Foundation as a contribution to the Faculty Grants Program. She was a member of the Chancellor’s Committee on Diversity, the Steering Team of the university’s outreach efforts to increase minority student enrollment, and drafted the campus response on faculty intellectual property considerations in teaching, research, and creative endeavors. Prior to…
…are calling for a renewed commitment to addressing health disparities in underserved communities by improving the training of our health workforce and thousands of individuals and organizations came together to create a National Stakeholder Strategy for Achieving Health Equity . One of the Strategy’s core goals is to improve the cultural competency and the diversity of our nation’s health and health-related workforce through training because great…
…themes and suggested next steps into an action plan. Organizers used an online process and worked with community partners to interview participants who did not have access to online technology or were limited English proficient. More than 300 representatives from medical providers, foundations, all levels of government, universities, community-based organizations, HMOs and the media contributed their ideas on how to reduce and eliminate physical…
…. demographic and vital statistics), and with point-based data (e.g. local community health services). This lab-based training will take participants through more sophisticated features of online GIS (Geographic Information Systems). These include creating personal accounts, saving maps and data for easy access, creating customized geographies for focus or study areas, & uploading datasets–both point and polygon–using Excel files. No background tr…
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