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August 12, 2022
"World ignored monkeypox threats, including signs of sexual transmission"

The Washington Post interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, about her team's research, published in 2010, that predicted a monkeypox outbreak.

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August 11, 2022
Monkeypox: How to avoid stigmatizing language

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.

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August 10, 2022
UCLA study demonstrates doctors can be influenced by the first diagnoses – sometimes towards misdiagnosis

Dr. Joann Elmore, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, addresses how pathologists tasked with offering a second opinion for a patient might be influenced by being informed of the first physician’s initial diagnosis.

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August 8, 2022
Meet Dr. Anne Coleman, director of the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology

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.

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August 4, 2022
With $12 million in federal funding, UCLA to expand reach of its depression treatment

Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, to lead research into the mental health of community college students as element of $12 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

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August 3, 2022
COVID-19: Advice for parents on navigating back-to-school

Dr. Shira Shafir, UCLA Fielding associate professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, provides insight about the current status of COVID-19 and provides tips for parents.

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August 3, 2022
"Southern California turning the corner on latest COVID-19 wave"

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.

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August 2, 2022
"How to protect yourself against foodborne illness"

U.S News & World Report interviewed Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health assistant professor of community health sciences, about how to protect against foodborne illnesses.

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July 27, 2022
"Monkeypox and mental health"

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.

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July 26, 2022
"New studies say market is the only ‘plausible’ source of pandemic"

The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Marc Suchard, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of biostatistics, about his research that indicates the COVID-19 pandemic started with two separate jumps from animals to humans in a live animal market in Wuhan, China.

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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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July 25, 2022
"An infection anywhere can be an infection everywhere"

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.

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