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The Reckoning: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Racial Justice

Source:
U Magazine (UCLA Health)
Date:
March 23, 2021
Dr. Vickie Mays, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, was interviewed by UCLA Health's U Magazine about the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing movement toward racial justice.
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The Impact of Poverty on Childhood Development Noted in Kids as Young as 5

Source:
U Magazine (UCLA Health)
Date:
March 23, 2021
Dr. Neal Halfon, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, was interviewed by UCLA Health's U Magazine about his research, published in the journal Health Affairs, that found health inequities can be measured in children as young as 5 years old
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How To Build A Vaccine

Source:
U Magazine (UCLA Health)
Date:
March 23, 2021
Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, was interviewed by UCLA Health's U Magazine about the race was to develop vaccines against COVID-19.
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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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"Disaggregation for Health Equity: Shedding Light on COVID-19’s Impact on the Filipinx Community"

Source:
KCET
Date:
March 23, 2021
KCET-TV published an analysis co-authored by Dr. Ninez Ponce, Fielding School professor of health policy and management, and Erin Manalo-Pedro, FSPH PhD student, about measuring the impact of the pandemic on Filipino and Filipino American nurses in the U.S.
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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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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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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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