Health Policy (Audio)

As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Amged Soliman from the National Council on Disability provides an update on health disparities. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40603]

As part of the 2024 Developmental Disabilities Conference, three leaders of the disability community - Max Barrows, Matteo Musso, and Elizabeth Grigsby - provide insights into the barriers faced by people with disabilities to access healthcare. They review programmatic, communication and physical barriers and offer their ideas for solutions. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39740]

UC Santa Cruz developed a computational tool known as UShER that enables real-time SARS-CoV-2 tracking and helps researchers identify new lineages of the virus. The easy-to-use tool and online server creates an evolutionary tree that helps scientists understand genomic mutations by creating new branches, showing the relationships between virus samples and the order in which mutations happened along various lineages as the virus evolves. Series: "UC Santa Cruz News" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39241]

Since the mid 1970s, California policy makers have attempted to address the ever-growing problem of homelessness and incarceration of people with serious mental illness. Despite these efforts, the numbers of people who are homeless and incarcerated with mental illness have reached unprecedented highs. In this program, Dr. Joel Braslow, professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and History at UCLA, lays out why this historically informed perspective is crucial to understanding why we have failed to solve the fundamental problems of caring for our most vulnerable citizens. This program is a presentation of UC Center Sacramentro. Series: "UC Center Sacramento" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 38662]