2026

San Jose Mercury News | “The long-term trauma of wildfire survivors”


The San Jose Mercury News quoted Dr. David Eisenman, a professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about mental health and disasters.

San Jose Mercury News | “The long-term trauma of wildfire survivors”

The San Jose Mercury News quoted Dr. David Eisenman, a physician and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about the mental health of disaster survivors.

“The loss of a home, the displacement you experience, the difficulty of rebuilding, living with the anxiety that this might happen to you again — all that combines to create, for many people, lasting psychological harm,” said Dr. David P. Eisenman, a primary care physician and director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters.

The piece also ran in the East Bay Times and Marin Independent Journal.

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