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Sudipto Banerjee, professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

A team of UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers has developed a method to better guide public policy related to the control and prevention of COVID-19, based on identifying those most at risk in the pandemic.

Sudipto Banerjee, professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health-led research found an association between working for pay and slower memory decline, regardless of a woman’s marital or parenthood status.

Health care leaders have new, improved tools to identify children at the greatest risk of preventable deaths, based on surveys of more than 67 countries around the world by researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health welcomes nine new faculty members, in four different academic departments.

Christina Ramirez, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of biostatistics, co-led study that found at least 10 distinct “hotspot” mutations in more than 80% of samples of the viruses’ genomes.

Researchers detected an unexpected 50% increase in patients presenting with respiratory illnesses at UCLA Health facilities in the months before the pandemic.

A complex research project designed to answer basic questions about how the human measles virus diverged from a related cattle pathogen has revealed the divergence may have occurred as early as the 6th century BCE, a time where cities were growing and interconnecting, through trade, travel, and war, across Eurasia from China to the Mediterranean.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding a project to rapidly analyze the spread, evolution of COVID-19; researchers include Dr. Marc Suchard, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, collaborating with top computational scientists at Scripps Research and Johns Hopkins University.