Yifang Zhu, professor of environmental health sciences and acting dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, is the principal investigator of a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Steve Horvath, professor of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was featured in MIT Technology Review. The article focused on his development of an epigenetic clock to predict human lifespan.
Dr. Timothy Brewer, a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted by The Guardian in an article about a typhus outbreak in Los Angeles County.
Dr. Steven Teutsch, an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a collaborator with the UCLA Center for Health Advancement at the Fielding School, was quoted in The New York Times’ Personal Health column.
The team, led by Roshan Bastani, professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, will implement and evaluate a colorectal cancer screening program.
Arturo Vargas Bustamante, associate professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in a Reuters article about a new study reporting that U.S. immigrants who have private health insurance contribute more to the risk pool than they receive in benefits.
Anne Rimoin, associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and director of the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program, was quoted by The Hill in an article about the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Healio featured a study led by Nicole A. Hoff, adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, reporting that a significant number of healthcare workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are reactive to at least one Ebola virus protein despite never reporting infection.
Nadereh Pourat, professor-in-residence of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research at the Fielding School, was quoted in a Reuters story about health insurers providing little or no coverage of non-opioid treatments for back pain.
