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Training & Education
SDPRC Annual Conference on Latino Health
The Training & Education Division plans the SDPRC Annual Conference designed to increase understanding of physical activity, its relationship to obesity, and how to promote physical activity in the Latino community. Conference participants include community organization staff, promotoras, students, researchers, and academics.
Students Promoting Physical Activity & Obesity Prevention among Latinos
This division also offers internships for high school, undergraduate,
masters, doctoral students, and preventive medicine residents to engage
in community-based research activities. A special opportunity exists
for students to publish their work in public health columns maintained
by the SDPRC in local, Latino community newspapers.
See the Training & Education Division Internship.
See the Training & Education Division Newspaper Column flyer (pdf).
PRC Students of Special Mention
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Doctoral candidate, Luz Garcini, was successful in the Ford Foundation
Fellowship 2011 predoctoral competition. Her selection for this
prestigious award reflects her promise as a scholar, researcher, and
teacher in an institution of higher education.
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Barbara Baquero received the ASPH/CDC/PRC Minority Health Fellowship to
complete her dissertation in June 2010. She is currently a W.K. Kellogg
Health Scholar at the Gillings School of Global Public Health,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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