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September 22, 2022
"(As) schools try to address the mental health crisis, vulnerable students suffer"
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September 18, 2022
"COVID is still killing hundreds a day, even as society begins to move on"
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September 2, 2022
"Extreme heat waves are making firefighters sick, adding new dangers to job"
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September 2, 2022
"The monkeypox outbreak may be slowing in the U.S., but health officials urge caution"
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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.

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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 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
"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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July 24, 2022
"How one Los Angeles neighborhood is guarding against deadly heat"

Bloomberg 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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