Lecture Archive

Below is an archive of events hosted and co-hosted by the USC Immigrant Health Initiative. Please click the event titles for video recordings of the talks.

2018

• California Bold Conference: Leading Policies and Movements for Immigrant Integration | USC Dornsife Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (02/07/18)

2017

• Unpacking Prop 64: A Game-Changer for Marijuana Regulatory Policy in California | Cynthia Hallett, President and CEO, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, and Joe Nicchitta, Cannabis Management Officer, Los Angeles County Office of Cannabis Management (11/01/17)
• Immigrant Visions & Voices: A Photovoice Exploration of Health in Chile | Justin Trop, MD candidate, and Mellissa Withers, Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC. (08/30/17)
• Health Issues in Asylum Seekers |Cynthia Willard, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Program for Torture Victims, Keck School of Medicine of USC. (04/25/17)
• Smoking Selectivity among Mexican Immigrants using Binational Data [Lecture video coming soon] | Lecture by Dr. Annie Ro, Assistant Professor, Public Health, University of California, Irvine. (04/03/17)

2016

• Striving for Health Justice: The Reality of Syrian Refugees & Displaced Populations » | Lecture by Steve McAndrew, Head of Emergency Operations, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. (11/22/16)
• Promoting Cancer Health Equity for Chinese Immigrant Women: How Culture & Access to Care Intersect [Lecture video coming soon]| Lecture by Judy Huei-yu Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center. (11/08/16)
• Bridging the Gap: Reducing Mental Health Disparities in Latino Populations at the Local Level [Lecture video coming soon] | Lecture by Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Davis. (04/19/16)
• University-based Research Centers As A Platform for Implementing and Sustaining A Research Program » | Lecture by Mark Edberg, Ph.D., M.A., George Washington University. (03/17/16)

2015

• Unaccompanied Minors Project: A Paradigm for Social Change and Development » | Lecture by Renee Smith-Maddox, Ph.D. and Annalisa Enrile, Ph.D, University of Southern California. (04/28/15)
• Navigating the Bureaucracy, Searching for Justice » | Lecture by Shannon Gleeson, Ph.D., Cornell University. (05/04/15)
• Multiple Sclerosis in Hispanic Americans: The Need for Targeted Messaging » | Lecture by: Lilyana Amezcua, M.D., M.S., University of Southern California. (11/16/15)

2014:

• Global Climate Change and Population Displacement » | Lecture by Lawrence Palinkas, Ph.D., University of Southern California. (09/11/14)
• Recruitment Challenges in Culturally Diverse Societies: The Norwegian Context » | Lecture by Gro Sandal, Ph.D., University of Bergen, Norway. (10/30/14)
• Immigration and Health Care Reform » | Lecture by Michael Cousineau, Dr.PH, University of Southern California. (12/09/14)
• Combating the Spread of HIV on the U.S. – Mexico Border » | Lecture by Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences and Director of the UC San Diego Global Health Initiative, and Thomas Patterson, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego. (05/25/14)

2013

• Health literacy and diabetes in Chinese populations: The challenges encountered » | Lecture by Angela Leung, Ph.D., MHA, BN, RN, Fellow of College of Gerontology Nursing at Hong Kong Academy of Nursing and Investigator of the Research Centre of Heart, Brain, Hormone and Healthy Ageing of the University of Hong Kong. (11/05/13)
• Reducing Untreated Psychosis Among Spanish-Speaking Latinos » | Lecture by Steven Lopez, PhD, professor of psychology and social work and director of the Culture and Mental Health Lab at USC. (11/19/13)
• Globalization, Acculturation and Migration: Moving to a New Paradigm of Immigrant Health » | Lecture by Lawrence A. Palinkas, PhD, professor at the USC School of Social Work. (04/18/13)
• Undiagnosed Disease & the Mexican Immigrant Health Advantage » | Lecture by Silvia Barcellos, PhD, associate economist at RAND Corporation. (02/27/13)

2012

• Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Testing the Effectiveness of Story- and Fact-Based Cervical Cancer Messages for Latinas » | Lecture by Dr. Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Doe Mayer, and Sheila Murphy. (12/06/12)
• Old and New Health Inequalities Among Immigrants » | Lecture by David T. Takeuchi, PhD, professor at the School of Social Work and the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. (11/08/12)
• Immigrant Health Community Forum » | Hosted in collaboration with the Community Engagement program of the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute. (05/23/12)
• Town Hall Meeting on Healthcare Reform » | Hosted in collaboration with the California Endowment, Southside Coalition of Community Health Clinics, St. John’s Well Child & Family Center, Building Healthy Communities South Los Angeles, and Keck School of Medicine of USC. (05/05/12)
• USC iHi: Year in Review » | A review of the iHi’s first-year activities, presented by Lihua Liu. (04/20/12)
• Health Care Reform and the Impact on Immigrants – Panel Discussion » | Panel discussion with David Hayes-Bautista, PhD, and Sonal Ambegaokar, JD. Moderated by Michael Cousineau, DrPH. (03/23/12)
• An Alternative Approach to the Traditional Primary Care Model » | Lecture by Roseann Mulligan, Charles M. Goldstein Professor of Community Dentistry, associate dean of Community Health Programs and Hospital Affairs, and chair of the Division of Dental Public Health and Pediatric Dentistry at the Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC. (02/21/12)
• Group Randomized Community Intervention to Prevent Liver Cancer in Asian Americans » | Lecture by Sunmin Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University of Maryland School of Public Health. (02/06/12)
• Bringing the Immigrant Health Experience Alive Through Journalism » | Lecture by Michelle Levander, director of the USC Annenberg California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships. (01/17/12)

2011

• Projections of Immigrant Generations, Growing Settlement, and Socioeconomic Progress » | Lecture by Dowell Myers, director of Population Dynamics Research Group, in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development. (11/02/11)
• Health Disparities and the Immigrant Health Initiative » | Lecture by William Vega, provost professor and executive director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging. (09/29/11)