DR. JODY HEYMANN has devoted her career to advocating for vulnerable and marginalized populations around the world through her public health and policy expertise and scholarship.
AS THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS pandemic took hold early this year, it sparked another type of contagion — one that, Fielding School experts note, is not at all novel in the context of public health emergencies.
In March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged people to stay away from crowded emergency rooms and put-off elective surgery, including heart procedures, to reduce potential coronavirus exposure. As early as April, doctors worried that people experiencing life-threatening emergencies were avoiding hospitals. Those fears were validated.
Onyebuchi A. Arah received the 2019 Academic Council Chairs Award for Mid-Career Leadership in the Academic Senate from the UCLA Systemwide Academic Senate.
DURING HER VISIT to China in fall 2019, Virginia C. Li was reminded of a biblical phrase: “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you shall move mountains.”
SO FAR, THE YEAR 2020 has seen two major historic events — the public health crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the massive nationwide protests against structural racism following the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and inaction in response to the shooting death, captured on video, of Ahmaud Arbery by two white residents.