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Dr. 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.

Dr. 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.

The 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.

The 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.

CNN 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.

The 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.

Reuters interviewed Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health chair and distinguished professor of epidemiology, about China’s response to the pandemic.

The Washington Post interviewed Dr. Matthew Mimiaga, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and professor of psychiatry & biobehavioral sciences at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about the mental health impact of telephone and online scams.