Center for Multicultural Health
Students interested in making a difference in multicultural health and health disparities have extensive opportunities to develop and apply the latest knowledge and skills to community-based practice experiences. The Center for Multicultural Health (CMH): Reducing Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice, part of the Center for Public Health Practice, works with numerous community partners to offer students with paid internships (during the summer and academic year), paid and volunteer jobs, practice-based class projects and case studies and workshops with leading practitioners. Through these opportunities students can contribute to the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions designed to reduce health disparities and/or improve the access and quality of programs and services including:
Programs to address specific diseases and problems such as asthma, obesity, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, heart disease, violence, and others that disproportionately effect vulnerable populations:
- Health care coverage and access to services
- Access to quality and culturally and linguistically appropriate services
- Community, neighborhood, cultural and socioeconomic factors as these influence health outcomes
- Cultural competency in the design and delivery of programs and services
- Workforce diversity and training
- Policy-related factors and solutions
- African American Wellness Project
- Alameda Alliance for Health
- Alameda County Health Department
- Alameda County School Based Health Centers
- Berkeley Youth Alternatives
- Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
- City of Berkeley Health and Human Services
- Community Health Academy, Oakland
- Contra Costa Health Services
- City of Berkeley Health and Human Services
- Ethnic Health Institute, Oakland
- Integrated Healthcare Association of California
- Inyo and Mono County First 5 Programs
- Kaiser National Center for Cultural Competence
- Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles County
- Pacific Public Health Training Center
- Prevention Institute
- Samuels and Associates
- School of Public Health Alumni Association
- University of California, Office of the President, Program on Access to Care
- University of California, San Francisco, Tobacco Control Policy Research
In addition to providing students with opportunities to work on important community projects, leaders from partner organizations are actively involved in the classroom, workshops and academic-community forums.
The CMH also partners with faculty and research centers within the School of Public Health to address disparities issues including professors Meredith Minkler, Denise Herd, Sylvia Guendelmen, Leonard Syme, and others.
