Updated COVID-19 vaccines were released earlier this month by the CDC, but will California adults be flocking to their local pharmacies? Not all of them, according to data released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Nearly one-third — or 29% — of California adults surveyed in June 2023 said they would not get additional COVID-19 vaccine doses if recommended by public health guidelines.
High rates of food insecurity, hate incidents, and difficulties accessing health care were all at the forefront of issues that plagued Californians in 2022, according to the annual California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data released today by FSPH's
ELAINE OWUSU WILL NEVER FORGET the summer between her junior and senior years at Marquette University in Milwaukee.
Research co-authored by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty and staff illustrates the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on ethnic communities in the United States over the past three years, and the need to improve understanding of how the pandemic rippled through those same groups.
As the new chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Dr. Carol Mangione leads a national effort to promote evidence-based preventive care and mitigate systemic racism in the development and implementation of preventive services.
A team of UCLA researchers has been awarded $20,993,333 by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to conduct the Aliso Canyon Disaster Health Research Study.
Dr. Philip M. Massey, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. His health communication scholarship focuses on media and technology in the U.S. and globally, on topics ranging from social media, vaccine communication, health literacy, entertainment education, and ethics in social media research. His work takes a mixed-methods approach focusing on health and media literacy in the context of multiple media environments.
Education
- PhD, Public Health; University of California, Los Angeles
- MPH, Public Health; University of California, Los Angeles
- BS, Biology; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AS CALIFORNIA PREPARED TO EASE RESTRICTIONS and emerge as safely as possible from shelter-in-place orders imposed early in the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the major unmet needs was for more personnel trained to perform the tasks fundamental to infectious disease control, including contact tracing, case investigation, and administration.
Dr. Frerichs is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Epidemiology and past Chair twice of the Faculty Executive Committee at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He was Chair of the Division of Epidemiology (1988) and then founding Chair (1989-2001) of the Epidemiology Department when it changed in 1989 from a division in a single-department School of Public Health (SPH), and served in that capacity for 12 years, resigning in 2001 to return to the general faculty. He was also Chair of the UCLA Education Abroad committee, a post he held from 2003 until 2005.
Education
- BS, Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, 1965
- DVM, Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, 1967
- MPH, Epidemiology, Tulane University, 1970
- DrPH, Epidemiology, Tulane University, 1973
Dr. Donald Morisky served as vice-chair in the Department of Community Health Sciences from 1994 to 2003 and chair from 2004-2005. His research is directed to both chronic and infectious diseases, specifically the risk factors for cardiovascular disease (high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and elevated cholesterol), tuberculosis control and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Education
- ScD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- ScM, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- MSPH, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
- BS, Chemistry/Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ