Nov 9, 2009
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources will play a role in the new University of California Global Health Institute, a program that addresses global health education, research and partnerships, according to a UC Riverside announcement today.
The Institute provides for the creation of three centers, which were selected in a competitive application process. Those centers are:
One Health partners, UCR and UCD, have strong agricultural roots, including Cooperative Extension and Agricultural Experiment Station faculty, "which will enable the center to address the agriculture-water-health nexus in its action-oriented research program in a way that no other global health school in the country can," the Riverside news release quoted Anil Deolalikar, the associate dean of the UCR College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and co-director of One Health.
One Health will focus on reducing the rate of disease and death resulting from malnutrition, unsafe water, and animal- and vector-borne diseases with the aim of designing, implementing and evaluating health interventions at the national, regional, community and household levels.
“This has tremendous implications for California,” Deolalikar was quoted. “A lot of global health problems are very relevant to California – food, proximity to animals, water contamination, water scarcity, and how the combination of these factors leads to illnesses. It’s a very California problem, particularly with agriculture being such an important part of the state’s economy.”
The creation of the UC Global Health Institute was announced today in San Francisco at a conference on the importance of global health to California, according to a UC San Francisco news release. The Global Health Institute was already credited with a report on the importance of global health to California.
The Institute provides for the creation of three centers, which were selected in a competitive application process. Those centers are:
- One Health: Water, Animals, Food, and Society, led by UC Riverside and UC Davis
- Migration and Health, led by UC San Diego and UC Davis
- Women’s Health and Empowerment, led by UC San Francisco and UC Los Angeles
One Health partners, UCR and UCD, have strong agricultural roots, including Cooperative Extension and Agricultural Experiment Station faculty, "which will enable the center to address the agriculture-water-health nexus in its action-oriented research program in a way that no other global health school in the country can," the Riverside news release quoted Anil Deolalikar, the associate dean of the UCR College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and co-director of One Health.
One Health will focus on reducing the rate of disease and death resulting from malnutrition, unsafe water, and animal- and vector-borne diseases with the aim of designing, implementing and evaluating health interventions at the national, regional, community and household levels.
“This has tremendous implications for California,” Deolalikar was quoted. “A lot of global health problems are very relevant to California – food, proximity to animals, water contamination, water scarcity, and how the combination of these factors leads to illnesses. It’s a very California problem, particularly with agriculture being such an important part of the state’s economy.”
The creation of the UC Global Health Institute was announced today in San Francisco at a conference on the importance of global health to California, according to a UC San Francisco news release. The Global Health Institute was already credited with a report on the importance of global health to California.
The report says an estimated $49.8 billion is generated annually by California companies addressing global health needs and an additional $8 billion in tax revenue for the state, or roughly 7 percent of total state taxes.
The study, conducted by UC Riverside researchers, also found that the global health sector supports 350,000 high-quality jobs in California and provides $19.7 billion in wages and salaries, generating two dollars of business activity for every dollar invested by the state into global health.