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UCLA FSPH-led Research Finds Connections Between Air Quality and COVID Vulnerability. Researchers also found that facemask mandates and stay home orders reduced the risk of COVID-19 by 15% and 8%, respectively.
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Read Full Article![doctors bandaging a child](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-05/2021.06.01_PressRelease_Regan_Thumbnail.png?itok=lL3RFIqi)
Researchers from universities in California and Texas, including Dr. Annette Regan, a UCLA Fielding School of Public Health adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology, has found immunization rates for children in Texas for a wide range of diseases, including polio and measles, have dropped steeply during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: Vaccine Read Full Article![Dr. Anne Rimoin](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-07/Anne%20Rimoin.png?itok=M2AypVlp)
Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, will speak on “COVID-19 and Beyond: Preventing the Next Pandemic Before it Starts” at the annual LABest 2021 conference, May 25-27.
Source: LA Bioscience Ecosystem Summit 2021 Read Full Article![field](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-05/2021.04.02_PressRelease_Ritz-Heck_Thumbnail.png?itok=b5pRZ0G8)
A UCLA-led study is the first-ever to estimate this risk for a large number of specific pesticides; the team includes Dr. Beate Ritz, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and of environmental health sciences, and Dr. Julia Heck, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Fielding School.
Source: Environmental Research Read Full Article![statue and flowers on a grave](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-05/2021.03.15_PressRelease_Hayes-Bautista_Hsu_Thumbnail.png?itok=fUXfI7za)
Dr. David Hayes-Bautista and Dr. Paul Hsu, both with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, have found that Latino Californians are among the hardest hit by the pandemic.
Source: UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture Read Full Article![phone](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-05/2021.03.09_PressRelease_Mimiaga_Thumbnail.png?itok=lohedEWm)
Dr. Matthew Mimiaga, director of the UCLA Center for LGBTQ Advocacy, Research & Health (C-LARAH), leads $8.8 million HIV prevention project funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Source: UCLA Newsroom Read Full Article![man](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-05/2021.03.08_PressRelease_Mays-Cochran_Thumbnail.png?itok=_4SjXpmh)
Research led by UCLA Fielding School professors Dr. Vickie Mays and Dr. Susan Cochran found Black men face near-daily discrimination despite financial and educational success.
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Dr. David Hayes-Bautista and Dr. Paul Hsu, both with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, have found that Latino Californians have suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic because of their employment and familial patterns.
Source: UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture Read Full Article![graphic with dollar signs and masks](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-05/2021.01.16_PressRelease_Rimoin-Ramirez_Thumbnail.png?itok=OTxzk-mN)
The team, including UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professors Anne Rimoin and Christina Ramirez, found that near-universal adoption of nonmedical masks in public, combined with complementary public health measures, could successfully eliminate spread of the infection.
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Read Full ArticleThe UCLA Center for LGBTQ Advocacy, Research, and Health (C-LARAH) is directed by Matthew Mimiaga, a Fielding School professor of epidemiology renowned for his research working with sexual and gender minorities at the intersection of HIV, substance use and mental health.
Source: UCLA Newsroom Read Full ArticleDavid Hayes-Bautista and Paul Hsu, both with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, have found that Latino Californians suffer significantly higher COVID-19 pandemic-related deaths than non-Hispanic whites.
Source: UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture Read Full Article![woman inspecting a tomato](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-04/2020.11.11_PressRelease_Nishi_Thumbnail.png?itok=MadoFLai)
An international team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers has developed and tested two strategies for sustaining economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. If used together and followed closely, they write, the approaches could reduce transmission of the coronavirus by an amount comparable to that of a strict lockdown, while also maintaining economic activity.
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