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"Mutations add Urgency to Vaccination Effort as Experts Warn of Long Battle Ahead"

Source:
Washington Post
Date:
January 30, 2021
The Washington Post interviewed Karin Michels, Fielding School professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology, about whether the emergence of more transmissible, potentially vaccine-evading variants threatens to extend the global health disaster.
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UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Hosts International Competition for Health Care Management Scholars

Source:
UCLA Center for Healthcare Management
Date:
January 29, 2021
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health hosts international competition for health care management scholars; winners includes teams from Baylor University, the University of Minnesota, UCLA, and USC.
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" 'Our Message is to Take the Vaccine,’ Says Family"

Source:
Los Angeles Times
Date:
January 29, 2021
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, about the importance of the COVID-19 vaccines.
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COVID-19 Vaccines and Coronavirus Variants: What you Need to Know

Source:
UCLA Health
Date:
January 28, 2021
Dr. Daniel Uslan, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor of environmental health sciences and UCLA Health's co-chief infection prevention officer, was interviewed about the influx of new information on the vaccines and the new Sars-CoV-2 variants.
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Using a Twitter Chat to Rapidly Identify Barriers and Policy Solutions for Metastatic Breast Cancer Care

Source:
Journal of Medical Internet Research, Public Health and Surveillance
Date:
January 26, 2021
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professors Ninez Ponce and Beth Glenn are among the co-authors of a research article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, Public Health and Surveillance that found online community insights drawn from social media platforms may be a timely source of data for policymakers to generate changes to improve health care and outcomes for metastatic breast cancer patients.
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Fielding School of Public Health Professor Elected President of International Society for Bayesian Analysis

Source:
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), UCLA Newsroom
Date:
January 25, 2021
Sudipto Banerjee, professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been chosen as president-elect of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA).
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"Inside California's Divided COVID Reality"

Source:
The Guardian
Date:
January 24, 2021
The Guardian interviewed Chandra Ford, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about the scale of the pandemic in California. Anne Rimoin, Fielding School professor of epidemiology, was also quoted.
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"Here's What the U.S. Can Do Now"

Source:
National Public Radio
Date:
January 23, 2021
NPR interviewed Dr. Jody Heymann, founding director of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s WORLD Policy Analysis Center and a UCLA distinguished professor of public health, public policy, and medicine, about steps the U.S. can take to help save lives as the vaccination campaign expands.
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"A Year ago I Asked: How bad Could Covid get? Now we Know"

Source:
WIRED
Date:
January 22, 2021
WIRED interviewed Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and director of FSPH's UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health about the scope of the response, one year into the pandemic.
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"Why Filipino Nurses Dread the Second Wave"

Source:
The New York Times
Date:
January 17, 2021
The New York Times interviewed Ninez Ponce, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and director of the Fielding School’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, about the expected impact of this winter’s pandemic infection wave on Filipino and Filipino-American nurses.
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