Public Health

With more people staying home, UCI-led research on health effects of indoor air quality takes on new urgency

Site provides comparisons between Orange County, other jurisdictions

UCI trains contact tracers to disrupt COVID-19 transmission – with an emphasis on health equity issues

Training will emphasize cultural sensitivity, health equity issues

Major portions of society are continuing to open back up in Orange County, even as some restrictions return amidst surging coronavirus cases in California. In the spring, Orange County managed to flatten the COVID-19 curve and even served as an exemplary model for other areas around the nation. Now, the question is whether Orange County […]

Wi-Fi-based application expected to be transferable to other universities and beyond

Can coronavirus be spread with the flush of a toilet? Can it be detected in municipal waste water treatment facilities? Sunny Jiang, professor and chair in UCI’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, is working two simultaneous projects to answer these questions, which she discusses in this episode of the UCI Podcast. To get the […]

New UCI service is staffed by trained undergraduates in public health

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many of us have felt our sense of time profoundly disrupted, with one day blending into the next. Alison Holman, an associate professor at UCI’s Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, says that stress has affected our ability to keep track of time. An expert in trauma, she says […]

UCI, other researchers use disaster footprint model to assess COVID-19 supply chain impacts