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Some healthcare workers in past Ebola outbreak may be able to 'neutralize' virus

Source:
Healio Infectious Disease News
Date:
October 9, 2018
Healio featured a study led by Nicole A. Hoff, adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, reporting that a significant number of healthcare workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are reactive to at least one Ebola virus protein despite never reporting infection.
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Better insurance coverage of non-drug therapies might help ease opioid crisis

Source:
Reuters
Date:
October 9, 2018
Nadereh Pourat, professor-in-residence of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research at the Fielding School, was quoted in a Reuters story about health insurers providing little or no coverage of non-opioid treatments for back pain.
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Cancer researcher honored for work benefitting patients and families

Source:
UCLA Newsroom
Date:
October 9, 2018
The Association of Community Cancer Centers will present Dr. Patricia Ganz, director of prevention and control research at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and a distinguished professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, with its clinical research award at its national conference in October.
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Congo's conflict makes fighting Ebola, sexual violence risky

Source:
The Associated Press
Date:
October 6, 2018
Anne Rimoin, associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and director of the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program, was quoted in an Associated Press article about violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is making it difficult to control the Ebola outbreak there.
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Valley Fever

Source:
KPCC
Date:
October 4, 2018
Robert Kim-Farley, professor-in-residence of epidemiology and community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was interviewed by KPCC for a segment about an increase in cases of Valley fever.
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Raising children with autism is hard, for Korean immigrants it's harder

Source:
KPCC
Date:
October 3, 2018
Dr. Alice Kuo, associate professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, commented in a KPCC segment about a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles that is helping Korean immigrant parents who have a child with a developmental disability.
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Fielding in the Field

Date:
September 28, 2018
During the summer of 2018, Fielding School community members put public health into action on campus and far beyond.
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FSPH Biostatistics professor and chair named fellow of international society

Date:
September 28, 2018
Sudipto Banerjee, professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named the 2018 fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
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Could High Blood Pressure Exposure Over Time Contribute to Racial Disparities in Dementia?

Date:
September 26, 2018
FSPH epidemiologist seeks to better understand differences in the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in an effort to inform prevention strategies.
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87 days of smog: Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades

Source:
Los Angeles Times
Date:
September 21, 2018
Michael Jerrett, professor and chair of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times about this summer’s long spell of poor air quality days.
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