“From Protest to Policy: Women’s Social Movement Activities in Los Angeles, 1960-1999,” a multi-year research project by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women examined the how grassroots advocacy has shaped gender-related public policy in the arts, employment, healthcare, and higher education through an analysis of local women’s groups in Los Angeles between 1960 and 1999. During this period, women’s community groups organized around gender-based problems their members encountered in their lives, their families, and their neighborhoods. The following timeline represents the key events in state and federal legislation regarding women’s health initiatives as well as the development of grassroots organizations in Los Angeles that advocate for women’s reproductive health, environmental health, drug and alcohol abuse education and treatment in women and minority populations.

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Chandra Ford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. Her areas of expertise are in the social determinants of HIV/AIDS disparities, the health of sexual minority populations, and Critical Race Theory. She earned her Ph.D. from the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina.

Hannah Landecker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at UCLA and a member of CSW's Life (Un)Ltd working group. She is a historian and sociologist of biology and biotechnology whose work on cell culture, microcinematography, and metabolish draws on and contributes to issues central to feminist science studies.

We are sad to report that Jill Cherneff, a longtime CSW research scholar, has passed away. Jill received an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis in 2006 and fought mightily against the disease. It was most important to her to stay active in her life and her scholarship. Indeed she renewed her research scholarship status in July of 2011 and her husband wrote that “although Jill cannot speak, she is totally intellectually present and uses a computer to speak and write.” Her final research project concerned gender differences and similarities in the experience of receiving a diagnosis of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. As an ALS patient and a member of the community of ALS patients, she conducted interviews, distributed and collected questionnaires, and used Internet resources to gather ALS illness narratives including stories of patients’ participation in ALS advocacy and activism.

A summary of UCLA professor Dr. Sung-Deuk Oak's new publication. This volume is a collection of primary and secondary sources about the history of Nursing in Korea from 1886-1911.

Since taking over as Dean of UCLA’s Division of Life Sciences in 2009, Victoria Sork has developed a set of initiatives that delineate her objectives for the division and her understanding of the role of the university in meeting the challenges facing society. These initiatives reveal her conviction that interdisciplinary research collaborations will be the engine for generating fresh approaches and innovative methodologies. These efforts include the development of a robust computational biosciences program to create a research infrastructure, health research focused on interdisciplinary research collaborations, biological conservation projects, and mentorship programs to advance diversity in the division.