Years of work, thousands of staff hours, and hundreds of partnerships all to achieve one goal—helping a student gain clinical experience in the community.

Being a parent can be stressful. For UC Davis biology associate professor Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez, parental behavior has inspired her research as a biological scientists as well as her public advocacy message.

In the eyes of Jennifer Phipps and her research team, the pandemic has reaffirmed the importance of engaging community members in their public scholarship work that is focused on promoting health equity.

Indira D'Souza, a third-year global disease biology major, shares her experience working on a community-engaged research project and how she is advancing public health as an undergraduate student.

 Blog post submitted as part of the Public Impact Research Initiative.

During the spring and summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic had its first waves, I moved back home from the dorms with one quarter remaining of my first year at UC Davis. Although things became very uncertain in the world around me, I had some new projects I was excited to work on.