California and the Changing US Narrative on Diversity, Race and Health
By Chicano Latino Campus Association
Date and time
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 · 12:30 - 1:30pm PDT
Location
Cole Hall Auditorium
513 Parnassus Avenue San Francisco, California 94143Description
The current narrative on diversity, race and health frames racial minority communities in three ways:
- Diversity means health dysfunction
- Social Determinants of Health---race, poverty and low education---are obstacles to good health
- and that racial categories are hard-edged and binary.
An alternative narrative is emerging from the California experience with (62% diverse populations) that challenges the current narrative:
- Diversity drives good health outcomes
- Unexplored Social Determinants can facilitate good health
The Latino fuzzy-edged multivalent racial narrative may offer different ways to conceptualize California’s increasingly racially ambiguous population. Theory, method and data from current research that undergird the emerging alternative narrative on diversity, race and health will be shared.
Organized by
The Chicano Latino Campus Association seeks to bring together the Chicano/Latino community at UCSF with the purpose of:
- Increasing the representation of faculty and staff in various roles including positions of leadership at UCSF.
- Increasing the numbers of tenure ranked faculty across the five different schools at UCSF.
- Increasing the numbers of Chicano/Latino students and trainees at UCSF coming from the SF Bay Area and within the state of California.
- Provide professional development opportunities for Chicano/Latino staff to help them learn new skills that would help them get higher paying jobs/leadership roles at UCSF.
- Address and give voice to issues affecting the climate, health and livelihood of the Chicano/Latino community at UCSF.
- Recognize the contributions and efforts of the Chicano/Latino community at UCSF.