UCLA-led research by a team including Dr. Julia Heck, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor of epidemiology, and Dr. Beate Ritz, professor of epidemiology and environmental health sciences, links prenatal exposure to specific chemicals to higher rates of eye cancer.
Source: UCLA Newsroom Read Full ArticleDr. Roch Nianogo recognized by Alzheimer's Association with research award for early-career scientists
Source: UCLA Newsroom Read Full ArticleThe Washington Post interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, about her team's research, published in 2010, that predicted a monkeypox outbreak.
Source: The Washington Post Read Full ArticleDr. Matthew Mimiaga, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and director of the UCLA Center for LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Research & Health (C-LARAH), addresses the importance of communications in the public health response to the correct monkeybox outbreak.
Source: UCLA Health Read Full ArticleDr. Anne L. Coleman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and a graduate (PhD, '97) has been named director of the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology; Coleman addresses the intersection between research and clinical care in ophthalmology, her medical specialty.
Source: UCLA Health Read Full ArticleDr. Shira Shafir, UCLA Fielding associate professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, provides insight about the current status of COVID-19 and provides tips for parents.
Source: UCLA Health Read Full ArticleThe Los Angeles Daily News interviewed Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, about an apparent drop in COVID-19 cases in southern California.
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Read Full ArticleThe Los Angeles Blade reported comments by Dr. Matthew Mimiaga, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, at a town hall about the monkeypox outbreak.
Source: The Los Angeles Blade Read Full ArticleCNN interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, about the threats posed by COVID-19, monkeypox, Marburg, and other zoonotic diseases.
Source: CNN Read Full ArticleThe Wall Street Journal interviewed Dr. Shira Shafir, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor, about the current COVID-19 surge of subvariant BA.5 in the United States.
Source: The Wall Street Journal Read Full ArticleReuters interviewed Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health chair and distinguished professor of epidemiology, about China’s response to the pandemic.
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