A $1 million gift from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation will support the UCLA COVID-19 Rapid Response Initiative, a partnership of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
State and territorial governors have implemented pandemic protection measures in order to interrupt and slow down the passage of the coronavirus throughout each state’s population. Some of these measures are implemented at the individual level, such as wearing a facemask or maintaining social distance. The risk of transmission is much higher among crowds of people in close proximity, so another set of measures operates at the group level, trying to keep large groups from forming by keeping potential members dispersed.
The 2019 list of the world’s most influential scientific researchers includes six Fielding School faculty members:
UCLA has received $27.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to spearhead the new phase of an initiative to enhance the diversity of the U.S.’s biomedical workforce.
The Fielding School welcomes the following new faculty members:
Research reported today at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2019 in Los Angeles identified a number of differences in the progression and risk of Alzheimer’s disease between women and men, including newly identified sex-specific risk genes and contrasting presentation of Alzheimer’s biology in the brain.
The world’s most influential scientific researchers in 2018 include 40 UCLA scholars.
In its annual list, Clarivate Analytics names the most highly cited researchers — those whose work was most often referenced by other scientific research papers for the preceding decade in 21 fields across the sciences and social sciences. (The 2018 list is based on citations between 2006 and 2016.)
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty, students and staff will present at the 2018 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting in San Diego.
Anne Rimoin, associate professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been appointed director of the Fielding School’s
As the new school year approaches, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (FSPH) is proud to announce the following new faculty appointments: