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'Publicly funded vaccines must be priced fairly and available for all'

Source:
The Hill
Date:
July 23, 2020
In an opinion piece published in The Hill, distinguished professor of health policy and management Dr. Jonathan Fielding shares his perspective about what can be done to ensure coronavirus vaccines are accessible for all.
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"Study Links Gas Flares to Preterm Births, With Hispanic Women at High Risk"

Source:
New York Times
Date:
July 22, 2020
interviewed Lara Cushing, associate professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, who co-led a study that found the risk of premature births is 50% higher for mothers near natural gas flaring in Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas region.
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"Risk Of Preterm Births Significantly Greater Near Natural Gas Flaring Sites, Study Finds"

Source:
Texas Standard
Date:
July 20, 2020
Texas Standard interviewed Lara Cushing, associate professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, who co-led a study published in Environmental Health Perspectives that found the risk of premature births is 50% higher for mothers near natural gas flaring in Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas region.
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"Anne W. Rimoin on how to stop the spread of coronavirus as US tops 140k deaths"

Source:
Fox News
Date:
July 19, 2020
Fox News interviewed Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and director of the Fielding School’s UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health, on the state of the pandemic response in the U.S.
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"Anti-racism as government policy? Los Angeles County supervisors will decide soon"

Source:
Los Angeles Times
Date:
July 19, 2020
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Chandra Ford, founding director of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health and associate professor of community health sciences, on proposals by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to evaluate county policies and agencies on how they address institutionalized racism.
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"Why California Latinos carry more worries in pandemic and why many don’t get help"

Source:
The Sacramento Bee
Date:
July 17, 2020
In an article addressing the high numbers of infection rates in the Latino population in California, The Sacramento Bee referenced a policy brief by the Fielding School's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that found that Latinos are less likely to have health insurance coverage than other Californians,
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Column: "The U.S. isn’t merely failing to deal with the coronavirus. We’re moving backward"

Source:
Los Angeles Times
Date:
July 17, 2020
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. David Eisenman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor-in-residence of community health sciences and director of the Fielding School’s UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters, for a piece by business columnist Michael Hiltzik about why the U.S. pandemic response is so poor compared with other nations.
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"Growing Wait Times for Covid-19 Test Results Hinder Virus Response"

Source:
Wall Street Journal
Date:
July 16, 2020
The Wall Street Journal interviewed Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor-in-residence of epidemiology and community health sciences, on how failures and delays in the U.S. testing effort are hobbling the pandemic response.
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Pandemic response grows in Central Africa

Source:
PBS News Hour
Date:
July 15, 2020
PBS News Hour interviewed Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and director of the Fielding School’s UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health, on the state of the pandemic response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she has worked since 2002.
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"Fact check: Are California hospitals over-counting coronavirus patients?"

Source:
The Sacramento Bee
Date:
July 14, 2020
The Sacramento Bee interviewed Gerald Kominski, Fielding School professor of health policy and management and senior fellow at the FSPH UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, about the importance of hospitals reporting testing all patients and all coronavirus infections.
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