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"Atlanta Shootings Represent Public Health Crises, Medical Groups say"

Source:
STAT
Date:
March 18, 2021
STAT interviewed Dr. Gilbert Gee, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences, about placing the murders of eight people in Atlanta, six of them Asian, at the intersection of several public health crises, including racism.
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Strengthening Resilience to Reduce HIV Risk in Indian MSM: a Multicity, Randomised, Clinical Efficacy Trial

Source:
The Lancet Global Health
Date:
March 17, 2021
Dr. Matthew Mimiaga, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, co-authored a research piece in the journal The Lancet on the HIV epidemic in this population, evaluating a resilience-based psychosocial intervention.
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UCLA Fielding School Scholar Honored for Study on Simple Cloth Masks as Protection Against COVID-19

Source:
American Association for Aerosol Research
Date:
March 16, 2021
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health scholar Liqiao (Vicky) Li was chosen for the first-ever American Association for Aerosol Research Lecture Series.
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Opinion: "COVID-19 Inequities - We Told You So. And, We Were Right”

Source:
Medium
Date:
March 15, 2021
Medium published a two part series examining health inequalities illustrated by the pandemic response, co-written by Dr. Chandra Ford, founding director of the FSPH’s Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences.
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"COVID-19 Proves Especially Lethal to Younger Latinos"

Source:
The Washington Post
Date:
March 15, 2021
The Washington Post interviewed Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, about research that Latinos’ reduction in life expectancy due to the pandemic has been more than three times the loss experienced by the White population.
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"How new CDC Rules About Post-Vax Hangouts Affect you, Personally"

Source:
VICE
Date:
March 11, 2021
VICE interviewed Dr. Shira Shafir, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, about the CDC’s new guidelines for post-vaccination activities.
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"People who are Homeless are Invisible Victims of Covid-19"

Source:
STAT
Date:
March 11, 2021
STAT interviewed Dr. Randall Kuhn, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor of community health sciences, about research into whether a 32% increase in homeless deaths in Los Angeles County in March may be connected to the pandemic.
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"These College Students are Working as Contact Tracers to Stop the Spread"

Source:
CNBC
Date:
March 11, 2021
CNBC interviewed Joana Fernandez Nuñez, a UCLA Fielding School of Public Health graduate student (MSW-MPH, Community Health Sciences) working for the Fielding School's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy, in a story about college students working as contact tracers and in contact tracing training programs.
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Opinion: "Justice for Immigrants in Detention"

Source:
The Progressive
Date:
March 11, 2021
The Progressive published an op-ed by Myrella Gonzalez, a UCLA Fielding School of Public Health graduate student (MSW-MPH, Community Health Sciences), on the need for reform of the federal detention system for immigrants.
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In Memoriam: Dr. Ellen Alkon, Public Health Professor Emeritus and Los Angeles County Health Official

Date:
March 10, 2021
Dr. Ellen Alkon, professor emeritus in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health whose career as a public health specialist mirrored the growth of the discipline in the latter half of the Twentieth Century, has died. She was 84.
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