The UCLA Alumni Association will honor a distinguished group of UCLA graduates for their wide-ranging contributions to the university, their professions and the broader community at the association’s annual awards ceremony. The event will be held May 13 at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center on campus.
Nationwide, various reports on COVID-19 cases and deaths, racial injustice, and a presidential election flooded the media circuit throughout 2020. As the U.S. continues to grapple with the pandemic’s toll on countless lives, findings from the California Health Interview Survey, or CHIS, are taking a closer look at statewide impacts among 39.5 million Californians.
Glenna Shen, an attorney and ethics specialist in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, will serve as the first-ever “executive-in-residence” at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Trusting health advice from governments and health workers, and feeling positively about vaccines, are strongly associated with trust in institutions, according to a peer-reviewed study from UCLA researchers published in the August edition of the journal Health Affairs.
Did Californians continue to follow COVID-19 state and local safety guidelines as case and death rates declined?
Research by a UCLA-led team has determined that the number of COVID-19 cases and the number of deaths from the disease both increased dramatically after states lifted eviction moratoriums that had been in place to protect people who were struggling to make rent payments during the pandemic.
A pair of new UCLA studies suggest that mental health needs for some ethnic communities may be going unmet in part because people in those groups don’t see themselves as needing care — despite the fact that they are reporting in surveys that they are experiencing symptoms of mental health distress.
With state vaccination rates slowing, and guidelines on mask wearing and social gatherings changing, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) has released new data from the 2021 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) that sheds light on Californians’ views on getting the vaccine and following suggested safety protocols.
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) has been named the recipient of a research award from California 100, an ambitious statewide initiative to envision and shape the long-term success of the state.