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Paper reading "Abortion Law"
May 12, 2022
"Supreme Court decides future of Roe v. Wade"

ABC News interviewed Dr. Paula Tavrow, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences and director of the Bixby Program in Population and Reproductive Health, about abortion, including the small number – roughly 9% - that occur later than 13 weeks after gestation.

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Dr. Katherine Chen
May 11, 2022
Doctoral student honored by Society of General Internal Medicine with 2022 award for research

Dr. Katherine Chen, in the UCLA Fielding School’s Department of Health Policy and Management, Recognized for Research into Impact of Housing Costs and Residential Moves on Renters’ Health.

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May 10, 2022
"The three midlife factors that raise your odds for Alzheimer's"

U.S. News & World Report cited research by Dr. Roch Nianogo, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health assistant professor of epidemiology, and published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association’s Neurology, that found the top threats to Americans today regarding dementia in old age are obesity, physical inactivity and lack of a high school diploma.

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May 9, 2022
"Hospital costs set to rise because of labor shortage?"

KNX-AM interviewed Dr. Jack Needleman, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the impact of labor costs on the healthcare system for the “In Depth” program.

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US Supreme Court
May 5, 2022
"How many abortions are actually performed in the U.S.? Rates have declined for decades"

USA Today interviewed Dr. Linda Rosenstock, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and environmental health sciences, about why the number of abortions in the United States have dropped by more than 60% since 1981.

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May 3, 2022
"New coronavirus variants emerge: BA.4, BA.5 likely reinfecting Omicron survivors"

The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, about the possibility that survivors of earlier Omicron strains can get reinfected.

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May 3, 2022
Proposed Menthol Cigarette ban aims to reduce disease and death – Particularly among Black Americans

Dr. Michael Ong, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, addresses the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's proposals to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, a move aimed at reducing tobacco-related disease and death.

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May 2, 2022
First Class

Through courses taught by FSPH faculty, talented and passionate UCLA undergraduates are introduced to the foundations of public health and its potential to transform communities.

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April 29, 2022
"Cases spike in Coachella Valley after music festival"

NBC News 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 a spike in infections after the Coachella music festival in California.

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Dr. Carlos Oronce
April 29, 2022
‘Bearing witness to daily struggle’ is what drew this doctor to medicine

Dr. Carlos Irwin A. Oronce, in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management, addresses what drew him to public health medicine.

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Dr. Kristen Choi
April 27, 2022
"Mixing COVID vaccines could give you more protection"

NBC News (KNBC-TV) interviewed Dr. Kristen Choi, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health assistant professor of health policy and management, about research by the National Institutes of Health that suggests mixing vaccines may enhance the immune response to the COVID-19 virus.

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April 25, 2022
"Increase in cases in the United States?"

Bloomberg News 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 the state of the pandemic in the United States.

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