Date
March 18, 2022
Time
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm PT/ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm ET
Title
About the Event
The Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health at UCLA hosts a Distinguished Quarterly Speaker Series during each quarter of the academic year. For Winter 2022, our speaker will be Dr. Monica McLemore from UCSF, whose work exemplifies the combination of nursing, public health, and policy research using community engaged and embedded methods to develop programs to test and deliver interventions.
About the Speaker
At the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Monica McLemore is a tenured associate professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department and an affiliated scientist with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health. She currently holds the Thelma Shobe Endowed Chair. She retired from active clinical practice after a 28-year clinical nursing career in 2019; however, continues to provide flu and COVID-19 vaccines. Her program of research is focused on understanding reproductive health and justice. To date, she has 87 peer reviewed articles, OpEds and commentaries and her research has been cited in five amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, and three National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine reports, and a data visualization project in the 2019 Future of Medicine edition of Scientific American.
