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Race, Racism and Patient Care

Source:
U Magazine (UCLA Health)
Date:
March 23, 2021
Dr. Keith C. Norris, a member of the executive board of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health, professor of medicine, and vice chair for equity, diversity and inclusion in the UCLA Department of Medicine, wrote a commentary for UCLA Health's U Magazine on how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted structural inequities in society that adversely affect the health of racial and ethnic minority communities.
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Fielding School of Public Health Alumnus Gives Back, to University and Environmental Health Discipline

Date:
March 22, 2021
Cris Liban, (D.Env ’03), chief sustainability officer at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, partners with UCLA on environmental fellow program and wins 2020 Award of Excellence.
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Fielding School Professor Weng Kee Wong Named Yushan Scholar by Taiwan Ministry of Education

Date:
March 22, 2021
Dr. Weng Kee Wong, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of biostatistics, has been named a Yushan Scholar by the Taiwan Ministry of Education. Wong is one of 43 international scholars to receive the award, which supports a three-month-per-year exchange program for three years to conduct research in Taiwan.
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COVID-19: A Year in Reflections

Source:
University of California News
Date:
March 19, 2021
Dr. Daniel Uslan, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor of environmental health sciences and clinical chief of infectious diseases and co-chief infection prevention officer at UCLA Health, has been responsible for a key element of the university's pandemic response for more than a year.
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"WHO Says Keep Using AstraZeneca Vaccine"

Source:
CNN
Date:
March 18, 2021
CNN interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, about the WHO’s recommendation to continue using the AstraZeneca vaccine, even though some European countries have stopped using the product.
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Standing in Solidarity with Our Pacific Islander, Asian, and Asian American Community Members

Date:
March 18, 2021
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"Atlanta Shootings Represent Public Health Crises, Medical Groups say"

Source:
STAT
Date:
March 18, 2021
STAT interviewed Dr. Gilbert Gee, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences, about placing the murders of eight people in Atlanta, six of them Asian, at the intersection of several public health crises, including racism.
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Strengthening Resilience to Reduce HIV Risk in Indian MSM: a Multicity, Randomised, Clinical Efficacy Trial

Source:
The Lancet Global Health
Date:
March 17, 2021
Dr. Matthew Mimiaga, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, co-authored a research piece in the journal The Lancet on the HIV epidemic in this population, evaluating a resilience-based psychosocial intervention.
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UCLA Fielding School Scholar Honored for Study on Simple Cloth Masks as Protection Against COVID-19

Source:
American Association for Aerosol Research
Date:
March 16, 2021
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health scholar Liqiao (Vicky) Li was chosen for the first-ever American Association for Aerosol Research Lecture Series.
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Opinion: "COVID-19 Inequities - We Told You So. And, We Were Right”

Source:
Medium
Date:
March 15, 2021
Medium published a two part series examining health inequalities illustrated by the pandemic response, co-written by Dr. Chandra Ford, founding director of the FSPH’s Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences.
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