Research

• 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)

• UCLA/South African Trauma Research Training Program (Phodiso)
  School of Medicine
  The Phodiso Program seeks to prepare future investigators to conduct research in trauma and injury prevention as a result of personal, interpersonal and community level violence and intentional injuries. The focus of their research will be to minimize health and mental health effects, specifically depression and PTSD in South Africa.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Louise Datu
  (Updated: Feb 03 2023)

• Neighborhood Alcohol and HIV Prevention in South African Townships
  School of Medicine
  The purpose of this study is to test a mother-to-mother intervention during pregnancy and after delivery with mothers in South Africa, most of whom are at risk delivering babies with fetal alcohol syndrome, babies that are underweight, or babies that are infected with HIV from an HIV-positive mother.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Mary Rotheram-Borus
  (Updated: Feb 03 2023)

• Improving South African Government Workers' Capacities to Deliver HIV Interventions
  School of Medicine
  This study, a collaboration between the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of Stellenbosch, is sponsored by UCLA. The purpose of the study is to address the United States Office of AIDS Research highest priorities: improving the workforce, reducing health disparities, and addressing HIV comorbidities.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
  (Updated: Feb 24 2023)

• Tirisano Training Project in South Africa
  School of Medicine
  The Tirisano Training Project is a collaborative training program between UCLA and the South African Research Consortium, comprised of faculty from the Human Sciences Research Council, North-west University and the University of Capetown. The project helps increase the clinical and research skills of South African post-baccalaureate, masters, and pre-doctoral-level scholars.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Gail Wyatt
  (Updated: Feb 24 2023)

• Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB)
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB) is a multinational peer-mentorship program developed for students and scientists across different continents so they can come together, learn from one another, and develop together in the field of environmental science.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Adeyemi Adebiyi
  (Updated: Mar 10 2023)

• Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  The Network aims to bring together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examine established and emergent practices of housing justice (eviction blockades, community land trusts, housing cooperatives and commons, tenant organizing, homeless unions, social rent, land value tax).
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ananya Roy
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• Longitudinal collaboration for interventional and diagnostic radiology
  School of Medicine
  The longitudinal clinical and research collaboration with University of Cape Town and other research groups in Cape Town focuses on imaging and interventional radiology therapeutic interventions.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jonathan Goldin
  (Updated: May 19 2023)

• Clinical Study of STI Screening to Prevent Adverse Birth and New-born Outcomes
  School of Medicine
  The goal of this study is to evaluate three STI screening strategies to decrease the burden of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Trichomonas vaginalis among pregnant women, and to reduce adverse birth outcomes. We will also evaluate the cost-effectiveness between the different screening approaches to inform guideline and policy design.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jeffrey Klausner
  (Updated: May 19 2023)

• UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program
  School of Public Health
  The group's mission is to conduct critical infectious disease research to strengthen local and international capacity to rapidly identify and respond to disease outbreaks while training the next generation of global public health leaders.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kirstin Chickering
  (Updated: Aug 07 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)

• The Photographer Who Woke Up from the Dead: Mohlouoa T. Ramakatane
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation of the archive of photographer Mohlouoa T. Ramakatane, the renowned portraitist of Lesotho, which sheds light on Lesotho’s history and cultural memory as distinct and separate from those of South Africa.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Bailey History Archive
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of the Bailey History Archive housing the largest historical photographic archives of Drum magazine, Golden City Post and other publications. Through an extensive digitization program, the BAHA archive will be made accessible to scholars, researchers, throughout the country and world.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 27 2023)

• Saving South Africa’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Video Collection
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the surveying and digitization of the testimonies heard at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the time of South Africa’s transition from apartheid in the 1990s were captured and preserved on Betamax tapes by the state broadcaster, the South African Broadcast Corporation.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

• Frank Jolles Collection of Zulu Arts and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
  UCLA Library
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the cataloging and digitization of Frank Jolles collection at the Phansi Museum, South Africa. The project inventories personal papers, fieldwork archives, and material culture/artwork holdings collected by Dr. Frank Jolles from the late 1980s until the mid 2000s in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Jul 19 2024)

• Evaluating the PrEP cascade in HIV-negative pregnant and breastfeeding women in South Africa (PrEP-PP)
  School of Public Health
  The PrEP-PP study goals are to evaluate pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiation, retention, adherence, and outcomes in a cohort of 1200 pregnant and breastfeeding women in two South African antenatal/postnatal care systems. The study will evaluate patient and provider-level factors associated with the PrEP cascade.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Dvora Joseph Davey
  (Updated: Oct 18 2024)

Education/Training

• 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

• UCLA/South African Trauma Research Training Program (Phodiso)
  School of Medicine
  The Phodiso Program seeks to prepare future investigators to conduct research in trauma and injury prevention as a result of personal, interpersonal and community level violence and intentional injuries. The focus of their research will be to minimize health and mental health effects, specifically depression and PTSD in South Africa.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Louise Datu

• Tirisano Training Project in South Africa
  School of Medicine
  The Tirisano Training Project is a collaborative training program between UCLA and the South African Research Consortium, comprised of faculty from the Human Sciences Research Council, North-west University and the University of Capetown. The project helps increase the clinical and research skills of South African post-baccalaureate, masters, and pre-doctoral-level scholars.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Gail Wyatt

• Longitudinal collaboration for interventional and diagnostic radiology
  School of Medicine
  The longitudinal clinical and research collaboration with University of Cape Town and other research groups in Cape Town focuses on imaging and interventional radiology therapeutic interventions.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Jonathan Goldin

• UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program
  School of Public Health
  The group's mission is to conduct critical infectious disease research to strengthen local and international capacity to rapidly identify and respond to disease outbreaks while training the next generation of global public health leaders.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Kirstin Chickering

Service

• Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB)
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB) is a multinational peer-mentorship program developed for students and scientists across different continents so they can come together, learn from one another, and develop together in the field of environmental science.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Adeyemi Adebiyi

• Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network
  Luskin School of Public Affairs
  The Network aims to bring together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examine established and emergent practices of housing justice (eviction blockades, community land trusts, housing cooperatives and commons, tenant organizing, homeless unions, social rent, land value tax).
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Ananya Roy

• Clinical Study of STI Screening to Prevent Adverse Birth and New-born Outcomes
  School of Medicine
  The goal of this study is to evaluate three STI screening strategies to decrease the burden of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Trichomonas vaginalis among pregnant women, and to reduce adverse birth outcomes. We will also evaluate the cost-effectiveness between the different screening approaches to inform guideline and policy design.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Jeffrey Klausner

• Evaluating the PrEP cascade in HIV-negative pregnant and breastfeeding women in South Africa (PrEP-PP)
  School of Public Health
  The PrEP-PP study goals are to evaluate pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiation, retention, adherence, and outcomes in a cohort of 1200 pregnant and breastfeeding women in two South African antenatal/postnatal care systems. The study will evaluate patient and provider-level factors associated with the PrEP cascade.
  Project Contact:

  Project website

  Dvora Joseph Davey

School of Medicine

• 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)

• UCLA/South African Trauma Research Training Program (Phodiso)
  Research| Education|
  The Phodiso Program seeks to prepare future investigators to conduct research in trauma and injury prevention as a result of personal, interpersonal and community level violence and intentional injuries. The focus of their research will be to minimize health and mental health effects, specifically depression and PTSD in South Africa.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Louise Datu
  (Updated: Feb 03 2023)

• Neighborhood Alcohol and HIV Prevention in South African Townships
  Research|
  The purpose of this study is to test a mother-to-mother intervention during pregnancy and after delivery with mothers in South Africa, most of whom are at risk delivering babies with fetal alcohol syndrome, babies that are underweight, or babies that are infected with HIV from an HIV-positive mother.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Mary Rotheram-Borus
  (Updated: Feb 03 2023)

• Improving South African Government Workers' Capacities to Deliver HIV Interventions
  Research|
  This study, a collaboration between the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of Stellenbosch, is sponsored by UCLA. The purpose of the study is to address the United States Office of AIDS Research highest priorities: improving the workforce, reducing health disparities, and addressing HIV comorbidities.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
  (Updated: Feb 24 2023)

• Tirisano Training Project in South Africa
  Research| Education|
  The Tirisano Training Project is a collaborative training program between UCLA and the South African Research Consortium, comprised of faculty from the Human Sciences Research Council, North-west University and the University of Capetown. The project helps increase the clinical and research skills of South African post-baccalaureate, masters, and pre-doctoral-level scholars.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Gail Wyatt
  (Updated: Feb 24 2023)

• Longitudinal collaboration for interventional and diagnostic radiology
  Research| Education|
  The longitudinal clinical and research collaboration with University of Cape Town and other research groups in Cape Town focuses on imaging and interventional radiology therapeutic interventions.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jonathan Goldin
  (Updated: May 19 2023)

• Clinical Study of STI Screening to Prevent Adverse Birth and New-born Outcomes
  Research| Service|
  The goal of this study is to evaluate three STI screening strategies to decrease the burden of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Trichomonas vaginalis among pregnant women, and to reduce adverse birth outcomes. We will also evaluate the cost-effectiveness between the different screening approaches to inform guideline and policy design.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Jeffrey Klausner
  (Updated: May 19 2023)

School of Public Health

• UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program
  Research| Education|
  The group's mission is to conduct critical infectious disease research to strengthen local and international capacity to rapidly identify and respond to disease outbreaks while training the next generation of global public health leaders.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Kirstin Chickering
  (Updated: Aug 07 2023)

• Evaluating the PrEP cascade in HIV-negative pregnant and breastfeeding women in South Africa (PrEP-PP)
  Research| Service|
  The PrEP-PP study goals are to evaluate pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiation, retention, adherence, and outcomes in a cohort of 1200 pregnant and breastfeeding women in two South African antenatal/postnatal care systems. The study will evaluate patient and provider-level factors associated with the PrEP cascade.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Dvora Joseph Davey
  (Updated: Oct 18 2024)

Luskin School of Public Affairs

• Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network
  Research, Service
  The Network aims to bring together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examine established and emergent practices of housing justice (eviction blockades, community land trusts, housing cooperatives and commons, tenant organizing, homeless unions, social rent, land value tax).
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ananya Roy
  (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences

• Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB)
  Research| Service|
  Environmental Science Without Borders (ESWB) is a multinational peer-mentorship program developed for students and scientists across different continents so they can come together, learn from one another, and develop together in the field of environmental science.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Adeyemi Adebiyi
  (Updated: Mar 10 2023)

College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences

• 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)

UCLA International Education Office

• Summer Global Internship, Cape Town
  EducationAbroadProgram
  Cape Town is the commercial and industrial hub of South Africa. Set between the ocean and mountains, Cape Town is home to regional headquarters for many companies, nonprofits, and non-governmental organizations.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Ana Arellano
  (Updated: May 11 2023)

• University of Cape Town
  EducationAbroadProgram
  On South Africa’s southwest coast sits Cape Town, an undeniably beautiful city. If you’re majoring in the social sciences or are passionate about community, you’ll love the volunteer projects in local townships promoting ecological conservation, criminal justice, and literacy.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Robert Rodriguez
  (Updated: May 12 2023)

• Public Affairs: Internships in Cape Town
  GlobalInternshipProgram
  UCLA and its local partner VACorps have identified enriching social justice-focused internship opportunities to provide you with great practical experience to jump start your post college career.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrew Bottom
  (Updated: May 12 2023)

• Education: Internships in Cape Town
  GlobalInternshipProgram
  Internship placements are approximately 8 weeks long. VACorps places students at internship sites based on personal career goals, interests and experience. While completing the on-site internship, students will also be enrolled in 1 or 2 online courses, earning 4-to-8 units of academic credit.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrew Bottom
  (Updated: May 12 2023)

• Global Affairs: Internships in Cape Town
  GlobalInternshipProgram
  UCLA and its local partner VACorps have identified enriching social justice focused internship opportunities to provide you with great practical experience to jump start your post college career.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrew Bottom
  (Updated: May 12 2023)

• Political Science: Internships in Cape Town
  GlobalInternshipProgram
  UCLA and its local partner VACorps have identified enriching social justice-focused internship opportunities to provide students with great practical experience to jump start their post-college careers. Internship placements are approximately 8 weeks long.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Andrew Bottom
  (Updated: May 25 2023)

UCLA Library

• The Photographer Who Woke Up from the Dead: Mohlouoa T. Ramakatane
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation of the archive of photographer Mohlouoa T. Ramakatane, the renowned portraitist of Lesotho, which sheds light on Lesotho’s history and cultural memory as distinct and separate from those of South Africa.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Bailey History Archive
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization of the Bailey History Archive housing the largest historical photographic archives of Drum magazine, Golden City Post and other publications. Through an extensive digitization program, the BAHA archive will be made accessible to scholars, researchers, throughout the country and world.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Oct 27 2023)

• Saving South Africa’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Video Collection
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the surveying and digitization of the testimonies heard at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the time of South Africa’s transition from apartheid in the 1990s were captured and preserved on Betamax tapes by the state broadcaster, the South African Broadcast Corporation.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

• Frank Jolles Collection of Zulu Arts and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
  Research|
  The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the cataloging and digitization of Frank Jolles collection at the Phansi Museum, South Africa. The project inventories personal papers, fieldwork archives, and material culture/artwork holdings collected by Dr. Frank Jolles from the late 1980s until the mid 2000s in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
  Project Contact:

  Project website			Rachel Deblinger
  (Updated: Jul 19 2024)