The Office of Diversity and Community Partnerships supports innovative
programs that enhance the academic, clinical, scholarly and advocacy
skills of middle school, high school, community college, undergraduate,
post-baccalaureate, graduate and medical students. Our program
participants acquire the skills and knowledge they need to become
successful members of a health professions workforce that reflects the
economic, social and geographic diversity of the State of California.
As a part of an "engaged university", the UCSD Health Sciences Center
encourages and participates in community-academic partnerships that
define our region's health problems, develop solutions to address these
problems and articulate our successes. Therefore, this office also
promotes linkages between agencies in our surrounding communities and
students and faculty in the Health Sciences Center so that we may work
together to improve the health status of our populations.
Maria Rosario (Happy) Araneta, Ph.D., MPH
Assistant Dean, Diversity &
Community Partnerships Professor, Family Medicine and Public Health
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