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FSPH researchers on front lines of Ebola outbreak

Date:
June 6, 2018
As the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues, researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health are using their expertise to assist in containment of the virus.
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FSPH’s Randall Kuhn: What Public Health Practitioners Can Do About Homelessness

Date:
June 5, 2018
Randall Kuhn, an associate professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, recently shared his thoughts on what the public health community can do to address homelessness
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California on Front Line as STDs Run Rampant in US

Source:
Yahoo News
Date:
June 3, 2018
Jeffrey Klausner, adjunct professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted by Agence-France Press in an article about an increase in sexually transmitted diseases in California.
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With Ebola at a ‘critical point’ in Congo, aid groups scramble to limit the outbreak

Source:
The Washington Post
Date:
June 2, 2018
Anne Rimoin, associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in a Washington Post article about the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Global treaty to take aim at workplace harassment

Source:
Reuters
Date:
May 30, 2018
In an article about the first international convention against workplace harassment, the Thomson Reuters Foundation refers to a study conducted by FSPH's WORLD Policy Analysis Center which found that 235 million women in more than a third of the world’s countries are not currently covered by laws against sexual harassment at work.
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Study reports students learn less in overheated classrooms

Source:
CTV News
Date:
May 30, 2018
CTV interviewed R. Jisung Park, assistant professor in FSPH's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, about a new study he co-authored which found that high school students' PSAT scores worsened when they had been exposed to high temperature school days (90◦F and above) during the 365 days prior to the test.
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Research during Ebola vaccine trial: It’s complicated

Source:
Science
Date:
May 25, 2018
Science Magazine featured research in the Democratic Republic of Congo being led by Anne Rimoin, associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Rimoin and colleagues are collecting blood samples from volunteers who are participating in the Ebola vaccine trial there in order to better understand responses to the vaccine.
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"Most Maps of the New Ebola Outbreak Are Wrong"

Source:
The Atlantic
Date:
May 21, 2018
Cyrus Sinai of Associate Professor Anne Rimoin's UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health was interviewed by The Atlantic in an article about how cartographers are creating new maps to help track the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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"Get the Health Benefits of Fruit"

Source:
Consumer Reports
Date:
May 19, 2018
Consumer Reports quoted Dana Hunnes, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, in an article about some of the reasons people should eat more fruit.
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"The First Urban Case of Ebola in the Congo Is a ‘Game Changer’"

Source:
The Atlantic
Date:
May 17, 2018
Nicole Hoff, adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and country director and senior administrative analyst of associate professor Anne Rimoin's UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program, was quoted by The Atlantic in an article about the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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