Last week, UCI Public Health convened students, staff, and faculty across campus for events held in celebration of National Public Health Week 2022 (April 4-10). The awareness week, established by the American Public Health Association (APHA), spotlights the vast contributions of the field of public health to disease prevention, community resilience, and all matters of human health and safety.
UCI Public Health hosted a series of in-person and virtual events featuring an array of faculty representing diverse backgrounds in public health research and practice throughout the week, all in accordance with this year’s National Public Health Week theme: Public Health is Where You Are. The theme centers around the importance of community health and the ways in which the field works to make communities healthier, stronger, and safe – a guiding ethos that has long been part of Program’s mission, vision, and values.
UCI Public Health showcased the breadth and depth of its equity-driven, community-based interventions by hosting “Lunchtime Lectures” featuring faculty from each of its four departments. Topics ranged from California’s expansion of health insurance coverage of undocumented immigrants and the impacts of air pollution on environmental health disparities to the role of epidemiologists before and after pandemics and the movement to reduce electronic waste worldwide.
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Public health students also played an active role in the week’s festivities by hosting several pop-up booths around campus where fellow Anteaters could stop by to learn about different topics from the public health workforce to community resilience and World Health Day.
The week also included a UCI Public Health alumni career panel and networking reception, where speakers and guests discussed how to jump start one’s career in the field, job seeking tips, and more. Events were held consecutively at the UCI Division of Continuing Education’s classrooms and courtyard.
UCI Public Health looks forward to celebrating National Public Health Week with the campus community in the years to come.
