FSPH at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo
THE 2019 AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION (APHA) annual meeting in Philadelphia was attended by Fielding School faculty, students, staff, and alumni, many of whom had their work featured. The meeting’s theme was “Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health.”
COULD WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION in the paid labor force during early adulthood and middle age bode well for their cognitive health later in life?
IT’S ARGUABLY THE GREATEST PUBLIC HEALTH SUCCESS STORY of the modern era. Vaccination campaigns eradicated the scourge of smallpox from the planet and have nearly eliminated polio, a paralyzing infectious disease that once struck fear in every parent. In 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the United States had eliminated measles, culminating a decades-long public health effort to promote childhood immunization against a disease that, prior to the vaccine’s introduction in 1963, annually infected 3 to 4 million U.S.
Gonzalo Moreno is a senior analyst at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, where he is a database lead on WORLD’s constitutions and child marriage projects, and also coordinates the production of all of WORLD’s policy data for presentation and download on our website. Gonzalo completed his undergraduate degree in International Development at the University of Guelph, and holds an MA in International Affairs from Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and an MBA from Concordia University in Montreal.
Max Hechter received an MPH in epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in 1994. Max started working for the UCLA MACS (now called the MWCCS) in 1994, primarily focused on ascertainment and confirmation of clinical outcomes of interest of this cohort, and management of several sub-studies that have arisen under the auspices of this long-running natural history of HIV and AIDS study.
Irish Del Rosario is the project manager for Dr. Ritz' lab, including the Parkinson's Disease Environmental and Genetics study, the Parkinson's Disease Registry Project, and the Human Placenta Project at UCLA. She graduated from the UCLA FSPH Masters program in Public Health in 2015 during which she conducted research addressing maternal and reproductive health in Bangladesh. She also previously gained experience as a grant writer and coordinator for refugee resettlement and rights in Hungary.
Ms. Stanley is currently the Project Director for the national initiative, Data Informed Futures, which is focused on promoting the health and well-being of young children at a local level. The initiative provides coaching and tools to over 90 communities in 18 states aimed at building local capacity to improve the alignment of service systems across the health, social service and education sectors. In this role, Ms.
When I called the epidemiologist Denis Nash this week to discuss the country’s worsening COVID numbers, he was about to take a rapid test. “I came in on the subway to work this morning, and I got a text from home,” Nash, a professor at the City University of New York, told me. “My daughter tested positive for COVID.”