THINQ About It

THINQ's media team regularly publishes independently researched articles and opinionated columns on our Medium blog, THINQ About It, which aims to investigate and foster discussion surrounding clinical procedures, public health, and social justice topics.

Read some of our recent publications here:

• Gender Discrimination in the Medical Workforce (Caitlin Chen and Seerat Chawla)
• History of Transgender Inequality in Health Care (Monica Gonzalez and Nicole Yee)
• Factors that Affect Failure Rates of Medical Procedures (Neha Divi and Sidhant Umbrajkar)
• The Current Opioid Crisis (Brittney Le and Aishwary Atmakuri)
• Barriers that Affect Accessibility to Health Care in Low-Income Communities (Lauren Han)
• Mental Health and Minorities (Kevin Chen and Theresa Nguyen)
• Health Gap: Deviation from the Cisgender Male Model (Monica Gonzalez and Nicole Yee)

Our blog also features a multimedia series titled Major Decisions, which includes why THINQ clinical fellows chose their respective majors, their experience with the major as a pre-health student at UCLA, what tips they have to succeed, and more. Click on the links below to watch and read interviews on the following majors: 

• Non-traditional Pre-health Majors
• Biology, Computational and Systems Biology
• Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
• Human Biology and Society
• Physiological Science, Neuroscience
• Psychobiology

In our first article series, THINQ About It: COVID-19, we delved into the biological and social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Articles cover topics including: vaccination updates and protection methods, efficacy of different mask types, types of COVID-19 testing, prejudice amidst the pandemic, and the impact of COVID-19 on various communities.

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