UC Davis Public Scholarship and Engagement

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Economics, Breastfeeding and Global Public Health

by Sarah Colwell
August 23, 2023

Access, Equity & Justice

Professor Katheryn “Kadee” Russ’ scholarship illuminates the human side of economics.

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Cows, Food Security and Climate Change

by Ermias Kebreab
June 16, 2022

Food & Agriculture

Ermias Kebreab’s community-engaged scholarship includes, of all things, seaweed and cow burps.

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Resilience+ Innovation Facility to Unlock Agricultural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

by The Resilience+ Innovation Facility
December 14, 2021

Food & Agriculture

"Agriculture is the cornerstone of livelihoods across the world. In Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where small-scale farmers’ livelihoods depend on the food they can grow, climate change has worsened the risk of drought and unpredictable weather, increasing barriers to opportunities for a better future through agriculture.

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Ranking Virus Spillover Risk

April 05, 2021

Human & Animal Health

SpillOver is the first open-source risk assessment tool that evaluates wildlife viruses to estimate their zoonotic spillover and pandemic potential.

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Engaged Scholarship with Soil and Human Communities

March 18, 2021

Environment

According to Professor Kate Scow, soils are a lot like people: diverse, complex, and hard to understand at times. And both depend on their communities.

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Glocal Health 2021-2022 Fellowship

The GloCal Health Fellowship provides aspiring global health researchers with outstanding interdisciplinary education and training in innovative research designed to improve health for populations around the world.

COVID-19 & the Disappearing International

Challenges and Opportunities for Global Human Rights

This event is part of a special Davis Humanities Institute COVID-19 Online Conversation Series

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Migration Research Center Faculty Symposium

Brief presentations of 15-20 minutes will reflect the multi-disciplinary and policy-oriented nature of the group and will be accessible to scholars of immigration across fields. They will touch economic, social, legal, and political themes linked to migration as well as historical and human-cultural ways of looking at this phenomenon.

Dec 6, 2019 @ 12:00pm - 5:00pm
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2203 SS&H (Andrews Conference Room)
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The nitrogen dilemma: can we reduce fertilisers and still feed the world?

October 16, 2019

Environment

Excessive use of nitrogen-based fertilisers is contributing to numerous environmental problems, but a more balanced approach is necessary if the world’s growing population is to be fed. The global nitrogen challenge therefore involves both reducing fertiliser use, and getting it to where it’s needed most.