Author Archives: Sheila Seno, Morgan Turner, Ana Hernandez and Gregory Stevens

About Sheila Seno, Morgan Turner, Ana Hernandez and Gregory Stevens

Is a student at California State University, Los Angeles, and will be earning her Public Health Bachelor of Science degree this May. Has been spent several years volunteering for community programs like the ones at St. Francis Center in Los Angeles to help provide food pantry services to low-income families and showers and meals to homeless community members. In 2018, after the repeal of the DACA program and as a member of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), a Los Angeles county-based organization focusing on immigrant rights, she proudly participated in peaceful marches, protests, and student-led litigations in Washington D.C. to advocate for the reinstatement of the DACA program affecting 800,000 DREAMERS. Advocacy WON, the program was reinstated, and DREAMERS were able to remain in the U.S. to continue pursuing their higher education goals. The next big dream is to start an MPH program focusing on health promotion or health education to help improve the health and well-being of underserved communities.

Fixing Health Care: A Health Care Revolt Begs Five Big Questions

In a previous post, we shared highlights from an event about fixing health care featuring Dr. Michael Fine, a family medicine physician, former public health official, and the author of Health Care Revolt. The faculty of the Department of Public Health at California State University Los Angeles led the event as part of a department-wide book read.… Read More »

A Health Care Revolt Begins with Us

Readers of this blog know the problems of U.S. health care well. Principally, it is absurdly expensive, deeply inequitable, and contributes relatively little to overall public health. Yet, most people aware of these problems have been sidelined, feeling incapable of changing things and left hoping for reform to come from within. But health care providers… Read More »

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