Events

2018 - 2019

  1. September 12th, 2018, A Broad Brush: How a Proposed Marriage Ban in California Intersects with Existing Protections for Minors, Presenters: Phyllida Burlingame and Rebecca Gudeman, ACLU of Northern California
  2. October 4th, 2018, Developing a Measure of Sexual and Reproductive Empowerment: The SHREYA Scale, Presenter: Ushma Upadhyay, Director of Research for UCGHI CoE on Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment; Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH); Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health; University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) 2017 - 2018
  3. November 9th, 2018, 12:00-1:00 pm, Justice for Jane(s): How Abortion Obstruction for Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors Violates the Best Interests of the Child. Presenter: Alexandra Carter, MPH, Consultant for ACLU of Northern California; UCGHI Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment. 
  4. November 13th, 2018,  3:00 - 4:00 pm, Ending Youth Homelessness Catalyst Group The Catalyst Group is focused on fostering partnerships between faculty, staff, students, researchers, and community partners in order to develop effective solutions to youth homelessness. In connecting research and practice, the Catalyst Group seeks to bring together perspectives from advocacy work, academia, and lived experiences of homelessness. Interested? All are welcome! (2121 Berkeley Way West, room 5400.)
  5. November 19th, 2018, Gun Violence In Schools. Moderators: Dean Prudence Carter, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Berkeley Law School. Speakers: Professors Ron Avi Astor, Alisa Crovetti, and Emily Ozer, with Alla Lefkowitz from Everytown for Gun Safty. Location: UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, Room 1104, from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm. 

2017 - 2018

  1. School of Public Health Research Symposium 
  2. Center for Global Public Health Adolescent Health Symposium: Making Cents, Making Change - Economic Innovations to Improve Youth Health and Wellbeing
  3. Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing visit to UC Berkeley
  4. Examining the relationship between schooling, early marriage, and pregnancy among adolescents in rural Honduras, October 26, 2017, Presenters: Erin Murphy-Graham, EdD, and Alison Cohen, PhD, MPH
  5. Child Marriage & Female Adolescent Health in Bihar, India, November 7th, 2017, Presenter: Anoop Jain, DrPH Student, SPH
  6. Pathways to Choice: Delaying Marriage and Building Assets through Girls Education, November 28th, 2017, Presenter: Daniel Perlman, PhD, Bixby Center  
  7. Child Marriage: Policies, Legal Frameworks and Accountability, December 5th, 2017, Presenter: Ndola Prata, MD, MSc, Bixby Center, i4Y, School of Public Health; UC GHI Women's Health, Gender and Empowerment
  8. Balancing Reproductive Rights and Protections from Child Marriage - Insights from developmental science, January 17th, 2018, Presenter: Ahna Suleiman, DrPH, UC Berkeley Institute of Human Development, Center on the Developing Adolescent
  9. Harnessing the power of social norms for improving global health. A case study from West Africa, Februray 7th, 2018, Presenter: Ben Cislaghi, PhD, FHEA, Assistant Professor in Social Norms, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  10. Network on Adolescent Well-being and Development - Social Science Matrix group speaker series. Spring 2017 dates (12-1:30pm): 2/28, 3/21, 4/24 - Location: 832 Barrows Hall
  11. Child Marriage in Development & Humanitarian Settings: Findings from the Human Rights Center, February 22nd, 2018, Presenters: Julie Freccero, MPH, and Audrey Whiting, MDP, Health and Human Rights Program, Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law, Location: 2515 Tolman Hall, UC Berkeley
  12. Adolescent Development in the US and Implications for Child Marriage, March 13, 2018, Presenters: Julianna Deardorff PhD, Associate Professor, Maternal and Child Health Program, King Sweesy and Robert Womack Endowed Chair in Medical Science and Public Health, Location: 2515 Tolman Hall, UC Berkeley
  13. Why Gender Matters in Global Adolescent Health, March 20, 2018, Presenter: Suzanne Petroni, Ph.D., MSFS, Principal & Owner Gender Equality Solutions, Location: TBD