Research

• Afro-Asian Archives: Preserving and Digitizing South Asian-language Sources for Indian Ocean African History
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  The project’s goals are twofold: firstly, in collaboration with the Zanzibar National Archives, to catalogue, preserve, and digitize this collection; secondly, to promote knowledge about and access to these and other neglected South-Asian language sources for African history through an online database and informational website.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Hollian Wint
  (Updated: May 26 2022)

• Seed Global Health
  School of Medicine
  Seed’s theory of change is grounded in the belief that people are among the most important levers of change in the health system. We are intentionally focused on human resource for health capacity-building at the individual, institutional, and national level through sustained collaborative engagement with our partners.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Carpenter
  (Updated: Jan 27 2023)

• AIDS Malignancy Consortium
  School of Medicine
  The mission of the AMC is to investigate through clinical trials new treatment and prevention interventions and study the pathobiology of malignancies in people living with HIV both in the USA and internationally.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ronald Mitsuyasu
  (Updated: Jan 30 2023)

• The Combined Effects of Temperature and Fragment Area on Afrotropical Bird Communities
  College of Letters and Science: Life Sciences
  A new UCLA-led study analyzes how warming temperatures and fragmenting habitats — areas of wilderness that have been separated by agriculture and other human development — are affecting 24 species of tropical birds in the Usambara Mountains of East Africa, one of the most species-rich regions on the planet.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Monte Neate-Clegg
  (Updated: May 24 2023)

• Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  Acts of archiving that draw on local knowledges and joint decision-making in what is to be remembered or forgotten, have a unique authority. They counter, stereotypes, gentrification, discrimination, and the lack of appreciation for shared histories and of community’s place in the global context.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Tawny Paul
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Documenting the Endangered Zoological Collections of Avifauna and Small Mammals of Mweka Museum, Tanzania
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the documentation of avifauna and small mammal collections at the Mweka Museum in Tanzania — part of the College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka — increasing accessibility of digitized copies of the original specimen to students and the wider scientific community.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Sep 16 2024)

• Hadza Hunter-Gatherer Research
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  This project has focused on the Hadza community in Tanzania since 2004, including research on: the group's food acquisition and nutrient composition of the Hadza diet, travel patterns, the relationship between the Hadza and the Greater Honeyguide bird, and other cross-comparative research about the group's environment and its impact.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Brian Wood
  (Updated: Oct 17 2024)

Education/Training

• Seed Global Health
  School of Medicine
  Seed’s theory of change is grounded in the belief that people are among the most important levers of change in the health system. We are intentionally focused on human resource for health capacity-building at the individual, institutional, and national level through sustained collaborative engagement with our partners.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Kelly Carpenter

• AIDS Malignancy Consortium
  School of Medicine
  The mission of the AMC is to investigate through clinical trials new treatment and prevention interventions and study the pathobiology of malignancies in people living with HIV both in the USA and internationally.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Ronald Mitsuyasu

Service

• Seed Global Health
  School of Medicine
  Seed’s theory of change is grounded in the belief that people are among the most important levers of change in the health system. We are intentionally focused on human resource for health capacity-building at the individual, institutional, and national level through sustained collaborative engagement with our partners.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Kelly Carpenter

School of Medicine

• Seed Global Health
  Research| Education| Service|
  Seed’s theory of change is grounded in the belief that people are among the most important levers of change in the health system. We are intentionally focused on human resource for health capacity-building at the individual, institutional, and national level through sustained collaborative engagement with our partners.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kelly Carpenter
  (Updated: Jan 27 2023)

• AIDS Malignancy Consortium
  Research| Education|
  The mission of the AMC is to investigate through clinical trials new treatment and prevention interventions and study the pathobiology of malignancies in people living with HIV both in the USA and internationally.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ronald Mitsuyasu
  (Updated: Jan 30 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Life Sciences

• The Combined Effects of Temperature and Fragment Area on Afrotropical Bird Communities
  Research
  A new UCLA-led study analyzes how warming temperatures and fragmenting habitats — areas of wilderness that have been separated by agriculture and other human development — are affecting 24 species of tropical birds in the Usambara Mountains of East Africa, one of the most species-rich regions on the planet.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Monte Neate-Clegg
  (Updated: May 24 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences

• Afro-Asian Archives: Preserving and Digitizing South Asian-language Sources for Indian Ocean African History
  Research
  The project’s goals are twofold: firstly, in collaboration with the Zanzibar National Archives, to catalogue, preserve, and digitize this collection; secondly, to promote knowledge about and access to these and other neglected South-Asian language sources for African history through an online database and informational website.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Hollian Wint
  (Updated: May 26 2022)

• Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts
  Research
  Acts of archiving that draw on local knowledges and joint decision-making in what is to be remembered or forgotten, have a unique authority. They counter, stereotypes, gentrification, discrimination, and the lack of appreciation for shared histories and of community’s place in the global context.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Tawny Paul
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Hadza Hunter-Gatherer Research
  Research
  This project has focused on the Hadza community in Tanzania since 2004, including research on: the group's food acquisition and nutrient composition of the Hadza diet, travel patterns, the relationship between the Hadza and the Greater Honeyguide bird, and other cross-comparative research about the group's environment and its impact.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Brian Wood
  (Updated: Oct 17 2024)

UCLA Library

• Documenting the Endangered Zoological Collections of Avifauna and Small Mammals of Mweka Museum, Tanzania
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the documentation of avifauna and small mammal collections at the Mweka Museum in Tanzania — part of the College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka — increasing accessibility of digitized copies of the original specimen to students and the wider scientific community.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Sep 16 2024)