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Alum Fernando Cheung (PhD '91), who has served on Hong Kong's Legislative Council since 2004, writes about the Hong Kong authorities' decision to delay elections for a year.Read more about NYTimes Op-Ed by Alum Fernando Cheung (PhD '91): "Why Did Hong Kong Delay Its Election — by a Year?"

"I expect the people who have the least in our society to delay pregnancy because of the economic and health effects of COVID-19." Anu Manchikanti Gómez and other experts on the impacts of the pandemic on U.S. birth rates, death rates, immigration, and long-term population trends.Read more about Anu Manchikanti Gómez in The Atlantic: "How the Pandemic Will Affect America’s Population"

"The leap to truancy court as opposed to identifying why this child isn't coming to school is a special kind of punishment reserved for Black students."
Assistant Professor Erin Kerrison on inequality and juvenile justice system interactions in schools.Read more about Erin Kerrison on the over-policing of Black students: Case of teen jailed for missing online classwork shows how schools and courts oppress Black students

Dr. Park Neung-hoo, Minister of Health and Welfare of South Korea, has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award. UC Berkeley's Haas International Award Committee bestows this award annually to a Cal alum who is a native, citizen and resident of a...Read more about Park Neung-hoo (PhD ‘98) honored with Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award

"The reality is we never had the same risk of contracting the illness." Assistant Professor Tina Sacks on the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic on lower-income communities of color.Read more about Tina Sacks in SF Chronicle: "Coronavirus data show growing disparities in income and race in Bay Area"

"What would be a better use of our time, what would be a better way to devote our energy, instead of into panic, would be about collective health, collective safety and collective joy." Assistant Professor Erin Kerrison imagines a future without police....Read more about Erin Kerrison on Berkeley Talks: Imagining a future without police

Professor Jill Duerr Berrick has received funding from UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) and the Peder Sather Center...Read more about Professor Jill Berrick awarded funding for comparative research project on post-foster care young adulthood in the U.S. and Norway

As the country moves toward reopening — and with it some sense of “normalcy” — UC Berkeley researchers said simply returning to normal isn’t enough. Rather, they said, dismantling structural racism must be part of any reopening strategy.

During a livestreamed Berkeley Conversations event...Read more about Tina Sacks, Osagie Obasogie, and others on "Race, Law, and Health Policy"

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Today marks Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day when slavery finally ended in the United States on June 19, 1865 -- two months after the Civil War ended and two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. For over 150 years, Juneteenth has been celebrated in...Read more about Dean Linda Burton's Juneteenth message

The relationship between our social welfare and criminal legal system is marked both by tension and collaboration. Social workers, in particular, must coordinate efforts alongside a host of state agents, including police officers. At this moment, both front-line crisis workers are confronting an...Read more about Event video: "Community Surveillance in the Time of COVID-19: Civilian, Social Worker, and Police Officer Adaptations for Staying Safe"

Every summer for the last six out of seven years, Lecturer and Training Consultant for the Latinx Center of Excellence Luna Calderón has led MSW students in the Sin Fronteras program. Designed to improve students’ Spanish fluency and train them in culturally responsive social...Read more about Without Borders: Virtual Study Abroad

In this SF Weekly article Assistant Professor Erin Kerrison, who studies the way in which the criminal justice system has historically impacted communities of color, says the founding philosophy of the modern, professional police force is inextricably tied to inequality and racism.Read more about Erin Kerrison speaks about the historical connection between policing and racism

Affiliated faculty member Osagie Obasogie looks at some of the structural factors that have allowed police violence to persist. "One of the perspectives that public health can offer is understanding what set of conditions allows police violence to manifest itself in the public, and kind of...Read more about Osagie Obasogie on CBS News: "Police brutality goes 'beyond individual bad apples,' professor says

Tina Sacks was interviewed by Univision for an article linking protests around the deth of George Floyd to the "original sin" of racism in the U.S. Said Sacks, “Lo que estamos viendo es la culminación de 400 años de opresión y resistencia. La brutalidad de esta...Read more about Tina Sacks interviewed by Univision about the legacy of racism in the U.S.: "La muerte de George Floyd revela las heridas abiertas del "pecado original" de EEUU: el racismo"

A fatal shooting by Vallejo police on June 2 reopens questions about policing equity; Assistant Professor Erin Kerrison offers a perspective.Read more about Erin Kerrison quoted in article on policing inequities: "Why Vallejo is now the center of unrest in Bay Area over police treatment of blacks"

Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics Osagie Obasogie, an affiliated faculty member of Berkeley Social Welfare, explains Graham v. Connor, the 1989 Supreme Court decision that shaped federal constitutional rules around police use of force.Read more about Osagie Obasogie: "How the Supreme Court allowed police brutality to persist"