Center on Gender Equity and Health UCSD

05/16/2025

🌟 Spotlight in Family Planning Research: Jasmine Uysal

From a young age, Jasmine Uysal questioned unfairness. “When people told me life wasn’t fair, my first question was always—why not?”

Today, as a predoctoral fellow at the Center on Gender Equity and Health at UC San Diego, Jasmine brings that lifelong drive for fairness to the intersection of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) research and violence prevention.

🎥 In this short video, Jasmine shares:
🔹 How personal experience shaped her commitment to SRHR and violence prevention
🔹 What drives her research on scaling evidence-based interventions
🔹 Why she believes in change–and the people making it happen
🔹 And how this work connects to her hope of building a better world for her daughter

This is the first spotlight in our “Family Planning: Why I Chose This Field” series. Stay tuned as we continue to share the stories of researchers whose passion, lived experience, and leadership are shaping the future of family planning and gender equity.

09/23/2023

Many congratulations 🎉 to the Agency for All Project consortium, led by our team at GEH, for receiving the 2023 Marge Horn Award!

It is truly wonderful to see the team recognized in this way by USAID - US Agency for International Development, especially as they work hard to prioiritize locally-led development and research.

We're looking forward to the seeing what comes from this complex and meaningful work as the project moves forward!

➡️ Read more about the award: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebration-our-partnerships-agency-all-honored/?trackingId=57%2Bc2PyuSaCfsQZTbfaJfg%3D%3D&fbclid=IwAR3bXxc19MlkvYLVP37L12Mq8doOJK0AUuNdNAYHOJOFSPUyaE0bTjZu3zc

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We're SO honored to share that the full Agency for All Consortium—80+ people working across 13 organizations—received the 🌟 2023 USAID Marge Horn Award🌟 for stand-out implementation science , and global innovators and practitioners advancing the field of .

HUGE THANKS to our partners and our team at USAID - US Agency for International Development, without whom none of our unprecedented progress over the past year would be possible.

Read more about the award via this LinkedIn Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebration-our-partnerships-agency-all-honored?trackingId=57%2Bc2PyuSaCfsQZTbfaJfg%3D%3D&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3Bl8EQlSTsRN6to9OjgRzq0A%3D%3D



cc: Center on Gender Equity and Health UCSD, Centre for Catalyzing Change - C3, CORE Group, Equimundo, Evihdaf, IPPF, Makerere University, Matchboxology, Sambodhi Research & Communications Pvt. Ltd., Save the Children US, Shujaaz Inc, Wits - University of the Witwatersrand, Viamo.

02/02/2023

We're celebrating! 🎉

As one of The LEGO Foundation's few Winners, the Impact & Innovation Development Centre--alongside the Center on Gender Equity and Health, Somero Uganda, The Bantwana Initiative, FAWE Uganda, and All Nations Child Development Centre--is excited to share more about REAL .

REAL Fathers stands for Responsible, Engaged and Loving Fathers. It's a positive program where mentors coach parents--with special focus on fathers--in play and . We've seen first-hand how this program helps children in grow up healthier and happier.

Our plan: To work in partnership to adapt REAL Fathers across local cultures, train more community-based mentors, and help local governments to track impact.

Watch this video to learn more and help us share the good news about this work! 👇

09/22/2022

Here is *most* of our dynamic GEH team last night at Sexual Violence Research Initiative’s —gathering to celebrate our work to end violence against women & children alongside hundreds of other researchers, practitioners, policymakers and activists.

We’ve shared so much of our research in the past few days, and we’re not done yet!

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09/21/2022

GEH gathering at Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2022.

09/20/2022

Mark your calendars! 📆 TOMORROW 9/21 at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative's , GEH's Dr. Jay Silverman, Dr. Erin Pearson, and many global experts will discuss the health sector response to violence against women, touching on the intersection between reproductive health and violence.

Thanks to our panelists from USAID - US Agency for International Development, Population Council, Mexfam A.C., Ipas Bangladesh! 🤝

We'd love for you to join us: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/addressing-reproductive-coercion-arches-side-event-at-svri-tickets-407145983597

09/19/2022

🗣Why is understanding so important for violence prevention + response? This Friday, Center on Gender Equity and Health UCSD (GEH) will be joining our Agency for All Project partners for breakfast at to talk about priority research questions around this issue and more.

Space is limited, but it's not too late to register to join GEH colleagues, USAID - US Agency for International Development, and other partners!

Register: https://bit.ly/AforAll_SVRI2022

👋 Where will you be at Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum this week?

It's not too late to register to join the Project Consortium for breakfast this Friday, September 23 (space is limited!). Together, we'll explore the concept of within violence prevention + response programming in different settings worldwide. 🙌

👉Register here: https://bit.ly/AforAll_SVRI2022

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Our Consortium: USAID - US Agency for International Development, Center on Gender Equity and Health UCSD, Centre for Catalyzing Change - C3, Evihdaf, Makerere University, Matchboxology, Sambodhi Research & Communications Pvt. Ltd., Well Told Story, Wits - University of the Witwatersrand, CORE Group, IPPF, Equimundo, Save the Children US, Global

09/19/2022

At the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2022 this week? Don't miss us!

We're partnering with the The Womanity Foundation to co-host a breakfast session on Thursday 09/22 called “South to South Equitable Partnerships for Program Adaptation." Join us to talk about how to to prevent violence against women & girls. 🙌

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/south-to-south-equitable-partnerships-for-program-adaptation-tickets-388702719297

The is the largest global conference focused on violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC). More than 900 researchers, funders, practitioners, policymakers, activists and survivors will connect, learn and share about the newest innovations for prevention--and responding to--gender-based violence in low-and middle-income countries.

09/13/2022

A new report finds physical and sexual violence are an increasing ‘epidemic’ in California; UC San Diego researchers call for health equity-based reform.

03/11/2022

We are kicking off a strategic review of the field-building platform for gender equality and empowerment measurement and gender data we maintain called EMERGE.

As the first step in this process, we invite you to tell us about your experience with EMERGE by completing a quick eight-question survey. We deeply appreciate you and your contributions to this process–thank you!

Take the survey here: https://buff.ly/3HW87Xf

03/10/2022

There is a disproportionate burden on transgender and nonbinary youths’ mental health due to stigma and lack of social support. Take a look at this paper with to learn more about mental health and gender-affirming care via JAMA Network Open

This cohort study investigates whether gender-affirming care is associated with decreased depression, anxiety, and suicidality among transgender and nonbinary youths.