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Dr. Roch Nianogo recognized by Alzheimer's Association with research award for early-career scientists

Source: UCLA Newsroom

September 2, 2022

"Extreme heat waves are making firefighters sick, adding new dangers to job"

Source: The Los Angeles Times

September 2, 2022

"The monkeypox outbreak may be slowing in the U.S., but health officials urge caution"

Source: NPR

September 2, 2022

"The push for greener schools: How community groups are fighting extreme heat inequities"

Source: ABC News (KABC-TV)

September 2, 2022

Are you protected from polio?

Source: UCLA Health

August 29, 2022

More than 40% of unvaccinated Californians went maskless in May 2022 as the state's summer wave loomed

The California Health Interview Survey, led by principal investigator Dr. Ninez Ponce, has found both a drop in risk reduction behaviors, and that one third of Californians are experiencing long COVID.

Source: UCLA Fielding School of Public Health UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

August 23, 2022

Older adults and adults with disabilities: In need of care but financially strapped

Source: UCLA Fielding School of Public Health UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

August 17, 2022

"The case for Medicare for all: Congress passes an inflation bill but is it enough?"

USA Today interviewed Dr. Gerald Kominski, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor emeritus of health policy and management, about why 25 million Americans, in a population of 329.5 million, still remain without health insurance.

Source: USA Today

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.

Source: The Washington Post

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.

Source: UCLA Health

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.

Source: UCLA Health