Our open house invited UCLA faculty, staff, students, partners, and community leaders to engage in conversations on sexual and gender minority health. We highlighted the Center’s current research projects, academic training programs, sustained community partnerships, and more!

The first C-LARAH EDI in Research Symposium, in partnership with the EDI Committee in the Department of Epidemiology and the EDI Office at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, featured distinguished speaker Dr. Nina Harawa, a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at UCLA, and emerging expert James Huynh, currently a PhD candidate in Community Health Sciences at UCLA and an incoming Assistant Professor of Anti-Racist Health Policy at the University of Michigan. Both speakers are renowned for their significant contributions to advancing EDI in public health research, particularly within the context of LGBTQ+ health and well-being.

In partnership with the UCLA AIDS Institute and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, C-LARAH hosted the Pizza and Protection Community Event where we offered free flu and COVID-19 vaccinations, sexual health and harm reduction resources, and, of course, pizza!

To commemorate World AIDS Day 2024, C-LARAH hosted a movie night, screening the 2012 American documentary film about the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the grassroots movements of Activists, “How to Survive a Plague.” In partnership with the UCLA AIDS Institute, we also provided dinner and sexual health and harm reduction resources.