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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.
Source: UCLA Newsroom 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 ArticleBloomberg interviewed Dr. David Eisenman — professor of community health sciences and deputy director for community partnerships at FSPH’s UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions (C-Solutions) — about new research from C-Solutions about extreme heat in southern California.
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The California Health Interview Survey, led by principal investigator Dr. Ninez Ponce, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, has published new estimates at the city, ZIP code, legislative district, and census tract levels.
Source: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research 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.
Source: Reuters Read Full ArticleThe 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.
Source: The Washington Post Read Full ArticleThe Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. David Eisenman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences, about a heat mapping project by the Fielding School’s UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters and UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions.
Source: Los Angeles Times Read Full Article“Veteran Journeys,” an award-winning opera written by Dr. Kenneth Wells, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, that explores the struggles of America’s military veterans, will be performed live for the first time at UCLA July 22 and 24.
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Tools developed by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health team show which communities are at greatest risk of harm during extreme heat days.
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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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The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Paul Simon, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and chief science officer at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, about the growing dominance of two new ultra-contagious Omicron subvariants among COVID-related infections.
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