SC CTSI held its kick-off meeting for the Nickerson Gardens Coordinating Council, marking the commencement of a dedicated initiative to tackle healthcare challenges in the Nickerson Gardens community and initiate the provision of essential services.
Two physician-scientists at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have received grants to advance health equity in underserved communities, crediting their success in part to research skills they gained during their KL2 fellowships, a three-year career development program of SC CTSI.
Poster title: Machine Learning Approaches on Multimodal and Ambulatory Data to Predict Individual Symptom Course in Adults with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
SC CTSI's Community Engagement core group pioneers a model for trust and collaboration between academia and under-resourced communities. The initiative, based in Nickerson Gardens, addresses healthcare challenges identified through focused listening sessions.
Growing numbers of Los Angeles promotores de salud—Spanish-speaking community health workers—are gaining invaluable professional education in research methods and protections that could open the door to more Latino participation in academic health studies. The Southern Califor…
At the COVID-19 pandemic’s start, there were no proven, effective medications to treat the disease. In the search for therapies, repurposing existing drugs offered a faster route to answers than developing drugs from scratch. Scientists scoured drug compound catalogs for contend…
Mallory Chavannes, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FAAP, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), has received the Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials: Career Development Award, which aims to increase the diversity of patients enrolled in clinical trial…
Academic health centers around the country want to build more trusting relationships with diverse, under-resourced neighborhoods to improve health equity and outcomes. But many minority communities have historically regarded university health investigators with skepticism and ev…
NIH Funding Acknowledgment: Important - All publications resulting from the utilization of SC CTSI resources are required to credit the SC CTSI grant by including the NIH funding acknowledgment and must comply with the NIH Public Access Policy.