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"Will You Need a Vaccine Passport in California?"

Source:
New York Times
Date:
April 20, 2021
The New York Times interviewed Dr. Michael Jerrett, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of environmental health sciences, about the uses of digital certificates of vaccination.
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"Is Herd Immunity to COVID-19 Possible? Experts Increasingly say no"

Source:
USA Today
Date:
April 20, 2021
USA Today interviewed Dr. Christina Ramirez, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of biostatistics, and Dr. Timothy Brewer, Fielding School professor of epidemiology, about the significance of immunizing the majority of Americans.
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"Remote Workers Prepare for Return to a Different Kind of Office Space as Pandemic Eases"

Source:
UCLA Health
Date:
April 19, 2021
UCLA Health interviewed Dr. Richard Jackson, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor emeritus of environmental health sciences, about how the workplace may change in the post-pandemic world.
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"An 800% Markup for Blood Work? It’s Time to Standardize Medical Test Prices"

Source:
Los Angeles Times
Date:
April 16, 2021
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Jack Needleman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the possibility of standardizing the cost of common medical tests to streamline healthcare management costs.
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Racism and Xenophobia on Social Media

Source:
American Journal of Public Health
Date:
April 16, 2021
The AJPH Podcast interviewed Dr. Gilbert Gee, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences, about the impact of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia on public health, and the role of social media in feeding or preventing racism and xenophobia.
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"Lead Exposure Linked to Parkinson’s Disease"

Source:
UCLA Health
Date:
April 15, 2021
UCLA Health interviewed Dr. Beate Ritz, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and environmental health sciences, about research that indicates a link between lead exposure and Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disease that affects movement, mood, and cognition.
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UCLA Fielding School Alumnus Honored for her Poetry About Explaining and Preventing Eating Disorders

Date:
April 14, 2021
Kamila Tan, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health alumnus, has been honored with the school’s Lester Breslow Impact Fellowship.
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Annual Report: 20 Ways the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Made an Impact in 2020

Source:
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Date:
April 14, 2021
In a "Letter from the Dean," UCLA Fielding School of Public Health dean and distinguished professor of biostatistics Ron Brookmeyer lauds the the work of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in the center's 2020 annual report; the letter was published in the center's 2020 annual report.
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"J&J Vaccine Pause Won’t Affect California Reopening"

Source:
The Associated Press
Date:
April 13, 2021
The Associated Press interviewed Dr. Timothy Brewer, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, about whether California’s pause on using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as federal agencies examine a rare side effect is likely to affect vaccination efforts.
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"'It Just Stays With You': The Corrosive Health Effects Of Decades Of Anti-Asian Violence"

Source:
WBUR-FM (NPR)
Date:
April 9, 2021
WBUR-FM interviewed Dr. Gilbert Gee, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences, about the impact of anti-Asian violence on the physical and mental health of Asian Americans, and the resultant need to change public policy.
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