Overview
UC Davis has many resources available to international students and scholars for addressing health, mental health, and well-being. SISS encourages you to reach out to these services and programs to find help.
For International Undergraduate Students
Medical care and mental health services:
- Contact Health 34 for non-emergency issues, support, and navigation to services. From anxiety and panic attacks to trouble with roommates and food or housing insecurity.
- Student Health and Counseling Services
- Feeling overwhelmed and needing guidance
- In-state virtual health appointments
- Out-of-state virtual health appointments
- Sexual harassment and violence survivors, including intimate partner violence, stalking and sexual assault
- Virtual counseling through Student Health and Counseling Services
- Nutrition and diet advice
Managing feelings of isolation and how to find community:
Dealing with academic stress:
- Undergraduate academic advising
- Student Disability Center
- Improve academic skills and strategies
- UC Davis Language Center
- Health 34
Access to food and additional funds:
Help to prepare to navigate the job market:
- Internship and Career Center
- Creating a resume/CV and other materials
- Virtual career counseling
- Virtual career fairs
For International Graduate Students
Graduate Studies compiled a list of services for graduate students focused on wellness and well-being:
Managing feelings of isolation and how to find community:
- The Healing Through Connections process-oriented group is open to all graduate students. Call 530-752-0871 for an initial consultation
- Email to learn about Postdoctoral Scholar Support Group
- Virtual Community Dinners
- UC Davis Graduate Student Association
- Health 34
- Finding Your Global Community
Dealing with work or academic stress:
- TA Wellbeing Progam
- Email to learn about Thesis/Dissertation Writing Support Group
- Student Disability Center
- Health 34
Support juggling caregiving with studying, researching, and working:
Access to food, additional funds, and health resources:
- Basic Needs Grant
- In-state virtual health appointments
- Out-of-state virtual health appointments
- Virtual counseling through Student Health and Counseling Services
- Sexual harassment and violence survivors, including intimate partner violence, stalking and sexual assault
Help to prepare to navigate the job market:
- Virtual career counseling
- Email to learn about graduate student and postdoc job search support groups
- Virtual career fairs
- GradPathways Institute for Professional Development
For International Scholars
Your medical provider can help you find services for your health needs, including diet and nutrition, and in many cases, mental health needs. UC Davis also offers resources that we encourage to you pursue to help address stress. Please consider these services:
- Academic and Staff Assistance Program offers confidential, cost-free counseling services to all UC Davis and UC Davis Health faculty, staff, and their immediate families
- Ombuds can help handle cultural misunderstandings, interpersonal difficulties, and health and safety concerns
- Sexual harassment and violence survivors, including intimate partner violence, stalking and sexual assault
- Contact Health 34 for non-emergency issues, support, and navigation to services. From anxiety and panic attacks to a fall off your bike and food or housing insecurity.