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October 17, 2022
UCLA-led study finds California’s greenhouse gas reductions could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires
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October 10, 2022
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor named to National Science Foundation position
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October 3, 2022
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health welcomes 10 new faculty members

The researchers' areas of expertise include health disparities, industrial hygiene, medical care and health economics, statistical genomics, mental health, and more.

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September 19, 2022
Graduation ceremony and celebration held for UCLA Fielding Classes of 2020 and 2021
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September 13, 2022
These pesticides may increase cancer risk in children

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.

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September 13, 2022
‘Glass bubble’ nanocarrier boosts effects of combination therapy for pancreatic cancer
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September 2, 2022
"Extreme heat waves are making firefighters sick, adding new dangers to job"
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September 2, 2022
Are you protected from polio?
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August 4, 2022
In memoriam: Dr. John Froines, visionary UCLA Fielding environmental health researcher and advocate

Dr. John Froines, professor emeritus in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences, died on July 13 from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

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Trainees from GRID Alternatives install solar panels on a roof  in Los Angeles.
July 25, 2022
UCLA teams up with LADWP for equitable solutions to reach 100% renewable energy

Dr. Yifang Zhu, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of environmental health sciences and senior associate dean for academic programs, will lead a team examining air quality in the City of Los Angeles in a project funded by a $2.6 million award to the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.

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Ocean waves
July 5, 2022
"Bay Area hazardous sites at risk from rising seas"

NPR (KQED-FM) interviewed Dr. Lara Cushing, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Jonathan and Karin Fielding Presidential Chair in Health Equity and an assistant professor of environmental health sciences, for the “Morning Edition” program, about the impact of sea level rise on current and former industrial sites in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Dr. Rachael Jones
June 24, 2022
UCLA Fielding School appoints Dr. Rachael Jones chair of the department of Environmental Health Sciences

Dr. Rachael Jones to join the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty and begin service as chair of the Department of Environmental Health Science and director of the Southern California Education and Research Center.

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