Angela Rose-David

Angela Rose-David
Angela Rose David

Angela Rose-David

Health Equity Challenge 2024 Finalist

PROJECT: A culturally tailored bereavement curriculum emphasizing mental health care and advanced care planning for the Filipino American community.

 

Angela Rose David is a first-generation Filipino American, born and raised in Los Angeles, California, with familial ties to the Philippines (Oriental Mindoro and Bulacan).

David graduated from UCLA in 2018 with a BS in Biology and a double minor in Spanish and Public Health. After spending two years interning with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on projects related to public health education and COVID-19 preparedness, she went on to complete a pre-medical post-baccalaureate program at UCLA, followed by a yearlong NIMHD T37 Minority International Research Training fellowship at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.

Utilizing these experiences, David now works at UCLA full-time as the project manager for a lab that explores health disparities affecting the Filipino immigrant population. She is also enrolled full-time in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Master of Public Health for Health Professionals program.

Caring for my grandparents during the COVID-19 pandemic taught me how intergenerational support networks become more crucial as people age. In the context of illness, it is especially important to understand a person’s cultural perspectives on death and dying. I want to prepare households to respond to death, as well as natural and human-caused disasters of a post-pandemic era. Through the Health Equity Challenge, I hope to develop a culturally tailored bereavement curriculum emphasizing mental health care and advance care planning, thereby equipping the Filipino/Filipino American community with the social support and knowledge needed to protect and support themselves and each other in the face of future traumas.

Angela Rose-David