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Want to give a gift that helps? How about forgiving medical debt

Source:
Healthline
Date:
December 18, 2018
Jack Needleman, the Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in a Healthline article about a nonprofit that helps people with medical debt.
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FSPH professor receives toxicology education award

Date:
December 17, 2018
Oliver Hankinson, distinguished research professor of environmental health sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named recipient of the 2019 Society of Toxicology Education Award.
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UCLA FSPH program trains underrepresented college students for public health careers

Date:
December 12, 2018
The UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program engages some of the nation’s most promising college students in an eight-week summer introduction to the possibilities of a public health career.
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FSPH aging expert receives public health lifetime achievement award

Date:
December 11, 2018
Steven Wallace, professor of community health sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was recently awarded the 2018 Aging & Public Health Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Public Health Association.
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Few countries offer free early childhood education, study finds

Source:
The Sector
Date:
December 11, 2018
The Sector featured a new study by researchers at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health reporting that a few countries make pre-primary education available on a tuition-free basis for two or more years.
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U.S. move to restrict immigrants' healthcare access would hit California's economy, study says

Source:
Los Angeles Times
Date:
December 7, 2018
Ninez Ponce, professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and associate director of the Fielding School's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times about proposed changes to the federal “public charge” immigration rule.
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FSPH professor wins award for leading team that developed oral cholera vaccine

Date:
December 7, 2018
Dr. John Clemens, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, is co-recipient of the 2018 Prince Mahidol Award.
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State explores how to counteract end of Obamacare mandate‚ or risk a million more Californians without health insurance

Source:
CALmatters
Date:
December 7, 2018
Gerald Kominski, professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was quoted in CALmatters about whether California will develop a state mandate that requires residents to have health insurance.
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FSPH professor and former students honored for developing curriculum about racism

Date:
November 30, 2018
Gilbert Gee and eight former students have been awarded the 2018 Award for Innovative Public Health Curriculum from Delta Omega, a national honor society for public health.
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Many more Californians likely to be without health insurance in next 5 years

Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
Date:
November 27, 2018
The San Francisco Chronicle featured research by the Fielding School's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and UC Berkeley reporting that eliminating the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty could result in up to 800,000 more Californians being uninsured by 2023.
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