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Center for Healthy Communities 2024-25 Impact Report Now Available

The 2024-25 Center for Healthy Communities Impact Report is now available for download as a PDF. This document shows how the CHC serves the needs of the Inland Empire's culturally, linguistically and economically diverse communities and how we bridge the gaps to improve health outcomes in those communities.

Download the Impact Report


Get Involved: Join our ListServ

The CHC connects people who are interested in public health, community-based and community-partnered research in the Inland Empire.

Interested in joining the ListServ? Email chc@medsch.ucr.edu


CHC Public Health Internships

The Center for Healthy Communities offers unpaid internships in public health for students attending undergraduate health administrative programs. Internships can be for-credit as part of a formal externship or not-for-credit during student breaks.

Learn more the internship program

Joining Our Team

The Social Medicine, Population and Public Health department is recruiting talent with medical degrees or doctorates in the fields of public health, sociology, anthropology, psychology and economics to serve as faculty in the center.

Visit AP Recruit for faculty positions

Visit UCR Jobs site for staff positions


Center for Healthy Communities News

Students with CMSP backpacks
Community college pathway expands and diversifies physician pipeline
California Medicine Scholars Program is key to closing a 4,000-physician primary care gap by 2030
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Mother and daughter harvesting the land
Community program boosts diet, fitness, and disease prevention for rural Latino families
UCR-led study found the Spanish-language program improves health habits in rural communities
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Brandon Brown
Professor named 2025 Hastings Center Fellow
Brandon Brown is the first recipient of the honor at UCR
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Rosemary Tyrrell
Professor honored with Nancy Chick Article of the Year Award
Award reflects Rosemary Tyrrell’s contributions to advancing teaching and learning in medical education and beyond
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California partnership aided COVID-19 response and health equity, report finds
STOP COVID-19 CA showed how researchers and communities can work together to tackle health disparities
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A culturally adapted obesity prevention for Latino families
UC Riverside-led study offers a framework for involving non-maternal caregivers in public health initiatives
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student volunteers with the IESM
IESM Partners with Temalpakh Farms for After School Nutrition Program
The UCR School of Medicine’s Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) and Inland Empire Street Medicine (IESM) program partnered with Temalpakh Farms, run by the Augustine Band of the Cahuilla Indians in the Coachella Valley, to host a two-day nutrition presentation for Nova Academy High School students on April 15-16.
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NHPI food distribution
Most eligible Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders missed mental health care, food aid during pandemic
UC Riverside’s Andrew Subica is co-author on report showing how COVID-19 affected NHPIs in California
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