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True or false: Using honey in coffee instead of sugar is an easy healthy hack

Source:
Well+Good
Date:
May 2, 2019
Well+Good interviewed Dana Hunnes, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, for a story about the health effects of honey contrasted with other sugars.
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For aging California, is the future Florida?

Source:
CALmatters
Date:
April 29, 2019
Steven Wallace, professor of community health sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in an article by CALmatters about implications of California's rapidly aging population.
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Fielding School biostatistics professor and chair honored for significant contribution in the statistical sciences

Date:
April 15, 2019
Sudipto Banerjee, professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been selected as the 2019 George W. Snedecor Awardee. The award will be presented to Banerjee by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings.
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Do plants purify air?

Source:
Los Angeles Magazine
Date:
April 10, 2019
A Los Angeles Magazine article about ways to improve indoor air quality featured Yifang Zhu, professor of environmental health sciences and associate dean for academic programs at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
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This country guarantees workers 49 paid days off a year, the most of any nation

Source:
CNBC
Date:
April 10, 2019
CNBC.com cited data on time-off policies from the Fielding School's WORLD Policy Analysis Center in a story about a law in Bahrain stating that workers can take up to 49 days off per year without losing any of their salary.
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Pasadena has a new health director

Source:
Colorado Boulevard
Date:
April 9, 2019
Colorado Boulevard reported that UCLA Fielding School of Public Health alum Dr. Ying-Ying Goh (MS '08) has been appointed as Director of Public Health of the Pasadena (California) Public Health Department.
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LA Times: Although workers who are transgender face steep barriers, corporate America wants to hire them

Source:
The Los Angeles Times
Date:
April 8, 2019
A Los Angeles Times article about how corporate America wants to hire transgender workers cited research by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law and the California Health Interview Survey, administered by the Fielding School’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, which found that there are an estimated 80,000 transgender Californians in the workforce.
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Multistate lawsuit challenging federal reversal of nutrition standards in schools

Source:
KPCC
Date:
April 5, 2019
KPCC interviewed William McCarthy, adjunct professor of health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, about the importance of school meals complying with science-based dietary standards.
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Americans aren't getting enough sleep and it's killing us

Source:
The Hill
Date:
March 30, 2019
In an opinion piece published in The Hill, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, distinguished professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, discusses health risks that ensue from sleep deprivation.
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How the U.S. compares to the rest of the world in paid family leave

Source:
NPR's KJZZ
Date:
March 27, 2019
Amy Raub, principal research analyst with the WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was featured in a radio show on NPR station KJZZ-FM, Phoenix, which examined how the U.S. compares to the rest of the world on paid family leave.
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