"The sudden dismantling of China’s Covid Zero restrictions in December means hundreds of millions of people are headed home for the Lunar New Year holiday for the first time since 2019. The crush of travel risks supercharging the world’s biggest Covid outbreak, spreading it to every corner of the country.
Long COVID patients can experience many of the same lingering negative effects on their physical, mental, and social well-being as those experienced by people who become ill with other, non-COVID illnesses, new research suggests.
The UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS) and the UCLA-Charles R. Drew University Center for AIDS Research (UCLA-CDU CFAR) have received $3 million in awards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop HIV prevention efforts for vulnerable populations.
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.”
Ten new faculty members have joined the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health this year. “Our school has a long tradition of attracting great talent to UCLA, and our latest group of new faculty is no exception,” said Dr. Ron Brookmeyer, dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Dr. Nina Harawa, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, co-authored research published in the peer-reviewed journal AIDS and Behavior that found a 10% tax credit was associated with a 21% reduction in high-risk HIV behavior among single mothers.
Dr. Roch Nianogo, an assistant professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named a 2022 recipient of an Alzheimer’s Association grant for his ongoing research into preventing Alzheimer’s disease in vulnerable populations.
Past research has shown that pesticide exposure increases the risk of cancer. Now, UCLA-led research has exposed which specific pesticides increase the risk of retinoblastoma — a rare eye tumor — in children.
The study, published in the August International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, found that children prenatally exposed to the chemicals acephate and bromacil had an increased risk of developing unilateral retinoblastoma, or cancer in one eye, and that exposure to pymetrozine and kresoxim-methyl increased the risk of all types of retinoblastoma.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of access to healthcare, and this access is obtainable when a community has access to health insurance, according to work by UCLA researchers that explores insurance coverage in California's Salvadoran-American community.
The report - "Uninsured Salvadorans in California," and published by the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture - was released Sept. 15; the most important finding is that immigrant Salvadorans are three times more likely to be uninsured, compared to U.S.-born Salvadoran-Americans.