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)

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

UCEAP

• Summer Global Internship, Cape Town
  • 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.

    Website

• University of Cape Town
  • 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.

    Website

Global Internship Programs

• Education: Internships in Cape Town
  • 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.

    Website

• Global Affairs: Internships in Cape Town
  • 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.

    Website

• Political Science: Internships in Cape Town
  • 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.

    Website

• Public Affairs: Internships in Cape Town
  • 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.

    Website

EAP Students

• 2021-22: 6 students
  • Summer Global Internship, Cape Town: 6 students
• 2020-21: 10 students
  • Engineering Virtual Global Internship Program: 1 student
  • Global Affairs Virtual Global Internship Program: 3 students
  • Summer Global Internship, Cape Town: 6 students
• 2019-20: 2 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 2 students
• 2018-19: 9 students
  • Summer Global Internship, Cape Town: 3 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 6 students
• 2017-18: 8 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 8 students
• 2016-17: 10 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 10 students
• 2015-16: 3 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 3 students
• 2014-15: 8 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 3 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 5 students
• 2013-14: 5 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 5 students
• 2012-13: 2 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 2 students
• 2011-12: 4 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 4 students
• 2010-11: 7 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 6 students
  • Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg: 1 student
• 2009-10: 9 students
  • Univ. of Cape Town: 7 students
  • Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg: 2 students

Global Internship Students

• 2021-22: 10 students
  • Global Affairs Global Internship Program: 6 students
  • Political Science Global Internship Program: 3 students
  • Public Affairs Global Internship Program: 1 student
• 2020-21: 4 students
  • Engineering Global Internship Program (Virtual): 1 student
  • Global Affairs Global Internship Program (Virtual): 3 students

Travel Study Students

• 2011-12 : 19 students
  • History - South Africa: 19 students