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A UCLA professor's call to root our racism in research

Source:
KPCC
Date:
August 13, 2018
KPCC interviewed Chandra Ford, associate professor of community health sciences and director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, about how assumptions about race can influence research.
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Smoke from wildfires is bad enough, but there’s another air pollutant to worry about

Source:
The Fresno Bee
Date:
August 11, 2018
Michael Jerrett, professor and chair of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in a Fresno Bee article about the health impact of breathing a combination of wildfire smoke and ozone.
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Here’s how quickly extreme heat can affect your health

Source:
Healthline
Date:
August 8, 2018
David Eisenman, professor-in-residence in FSPH's Department of Community Health Sciences, was quoted in a Healthline article about the public health risks associated with extreme heat events.
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Health insurance for dummies: Why we cover pre-existing conditions

Source:
Los Angeles Times
Date:
August 3, 2018
Gerald Kominski, professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and senior fellow at the Fielding School’s Center for Health Policy Research, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times column about why health insurance plans should cover pre-existing conditions.
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Fathers, your time off is past its due date

Source:
Bloomberg Opinion
Date:
July 29, 2018
Jody Heymann, dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and founding director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the Fielding School, was cited in a Bloomberg Opinion piece about why paternity leave makes economic sense.
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How world health officials stopped a potentially catastrophic outbreak

Source:
The Hill
Date:
July 27, 2018
Anne Rimoin, associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and founding director of the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program, was quoted in The Hill about how health officials helped curb an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Congo’s Ebola outbreak is all but over. Did an experimental vaccine help?

Source:
Science
Date:
July 18, 2018
Science described the work of Anne Rimoin, associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, in an article about an experimental vaccine that was administered during the most recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Heat makes you dumb, in four charts

Source:
The Washington Post
Date:
July 17, 2018
The Washington Post featured two studies co-authored by R. Jisung Park, professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, in an article about recent research showing the effect of heat on cognitive performance.
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States Attacking ACA Would Suffer Most If Preexisting Conditions Shield Gets Axed

Source:
Kaiser Health News
Date:
July 17, 2018
Gerald Kominski was quoted in a Kaiser Health News story about the potential effect of courts striking down the ACA's pre-existing condition protections.
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Many breast cancer patients don’t get recommended follow-up, study finds

Source:
The Wall Street Journal
Date:
July 16, 2018
Dr. Patricia Ganz, distinguished professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in The Wall Street Journal. Dr. Ganz commented on a new study reporting that many women who have been treated for early-stage breast cancer don’t get recommended follow-up mammograms.
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