Ya Yang, UC Merced
In the summer, students have multiple options: refresh, do research, take courses or travel. Some UC students are doing all of that, and at the same time immersing themselves in different cultures and global health.
Jasmin Camberos, a Master in Public Health student at UC Irvine, will travel to Thailand for an internship in community health. Alex Owens, a UC Santa Cruz politics student, goes to Ghana in late June for a course and field work in “Global Health and Global Food.”
Ya Yang, who majors in public health and psychology at UC Merced, will spend the summer close to home. He will research the complex health risks of Shamans, who provide healing and spiritual care to a large Hmong population in the Central Valley.
Jenny Mendez Butler, who graduated June 1 from UCSF with a master’s in nursing, will reflect on global health lessons learned – particularly from her time last summer in Chiapas, Mexico – as she takes her next career step. She plans to work in the San Francisco Bay Area as a nurse practitioner in a community with a large immigrant and Spanish-speaking population.
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