Category: Global and Community Health
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Lessons from COVID reveal how monopoly power in the biopharmaceutical industry is evolving
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Politics Professor Matt Sparke, co-director of UC Santa Cruz’s Global and Community Health Program, kept a close watch on the global biopharmaceutical industry. Like many others around the world, he was deeply concerned by huge global inequalities in access to testing tools, vaccines, and other biomedical counter-measures. As a scholar of…
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UCSC iGEM 2023 addressing harmful algal blooms through synthetic biology
This year’s team of student innovators, members of the UCSC International Genetically Engineering Machine (iGEM) program, is addressing a local yet widespread environmental issue: harmful algal blooms in Watsonville’s Pinto Lake. The team’s bioengineering approach targets the toxic genes of the specific bacteria responsible for the algal blooms, creating a non-invasive, long-term solution to preserve…
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Equity gaps in COVID-19 deaths closed for some racial and ethnic groups, widened for others during vaccine rollout in California
A team of public health researchers from UC Santa Cruz, Stanford University, and UC San Francisco published new research showing how racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 deaths across California changed as the rollout process for vaccines began. During the early phases of the pandemic in 2020, Latino people across California were dying of COVID-19 at a…