A team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (UCLA Fielding) researchers has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve risk assessment for those suffering from diabetes and related complications.
KPCC-FM (NPR affiliate, Los Angeles) interviewed Dr. Timothy Brewer, professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and of Medicine, and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about planned cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Associated Press quoted Aleta Sprague, director of legal analysis and communication with the UCLA Fielding School's WORLD Policy Analysis Center, about how the U.S. compares to the rest of the world in terms of paid medical or sick leave.
NBC News interviewed the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Jonathan Jacobs, assistant professor-in-residence of epidemiology at FSPH and a gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher, about the results of fecal transplants in cancer treatment trials.
The fires may no longer be raging, but their impact on our health and communities continues.
“This is our Hurricane Katrina — an epochal disaster that’s changing Los Angeles,” said Dr. David Eisenman, whose research focuses on public health and disasters. “The fire transformed everything: our air, soil, landscapes and institutions.”
Inaccurate labels and confusing packaging lead people with serious medical conditions to get ‘glutened,’ says public health scholar Emily Abel
Dr. Yoshira “Yoshi” Ornelas Van Horne is an exposure scientist and environmental justice scholar. She is the assistant director of Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Fellowship, which trains early career scientists in science communications.
Education
- PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- MS, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- BS, Microbiology University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
NPR Los Angeles addressed some of what the future of public health might look like in an age of growing mistrust of science. UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences Dr.
THE ENORMOUS POWER WIELDED by social media to spread health-related information — for better and for worse — was on full display in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Projects led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health investigators have received grants through a partnership between the University of California and the state intended to spur research and real-world solutions that tackle the threat of climate change throughout California.