Engaging Communities, Advancing Research
By Sharon Brock
“We are the change agents. With health care reform, we need to improve outreach programs and restructure our research to promote change. Our research costs a lot of money; it needs to make a difference.”
That was
By Vincent Lim
At an international conference organized by the World Psychiatric Association, William A. Vega, executive director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work, discussed the mental health challenges facing Latinos
By Cortney Fielding
USC Provost Professor William Vega, one of the nation’s leading experts on health disparities affecting ethnic minority groups, has received the 2010 Research and Advocacy Award from the National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health.
Vega, the
By Vincent Lim
William A. Vega, executive director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work, gave the keynote presentation at the 2010 International Conference on Aging in the Americas.
The conference was
By Vincent Lim
William A. Vega, executive director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC School of Social Work, discussed the U.S. health care system and health disparities in low-income communities of color at the Congressional
By Meaghan Hardy
Leading scholars from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States convened May 6-7 on the USC campus to discuss the changing role of filial relationships in elder care as a result of the one-child policy’s effects
By Susan Wampler
USC Executive Vice President and Provost C. L. Max Nikias presented the inaugural Pearmain Prize in Research on Aging to Kyriakos S. Markides—a leading scholar on aging and health issues—at USC Town & Gown on Feb. 16
By Susan Wampler
William Vega, one of the nation’s leading experts on health disparities that affect aging ethnic minority populations, has been named executive director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, now based at the USC School of
