Public Health

Public health professor will promote interdisciplinary programs

Smokers exposed to toxic chemicals, ultrafine particles and carbon monoxide

UCI-led study points toward new ways to prevent disease transmission

UCI researcher creates videos and messages to boost vaccination rates and cancer screenings

Irvine, Calif., March 19, 2019 — Bernadette Boden-Albala, Dr.P.H. – a renowned researcher and administrator whose efforts to reduce health disparities for America’s disadvantaged became a blueprint for community-based stroke and heart disease prevention – has been named director and founding dean of the University of California, Irvine’s planned School of Population Health, effective July […]

Many insects are equipped with a natural defense mechanism against harmful pathogens: Their wings are covered with nanoscale spikes – 1,000 times thinner than a human hair – that kill bacteria and fungi cells. UCI’s 2019 winner of the University of California Grad Slam competition is mimicking these antimicrobial surfaces in the lab for potential […]

With a $30,000 grant from the University of California Global Climate Leadership Council, Oladele Ogunseitan, chair and professor in UCI’s Program in Public Health, will host a workshop in the winter quarter of 2019 to train as many as 20 faculty members in the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences to integrate the health […]

UCI rates as top-producing school for prestigious international exchange program

Based on fictional dinosaurs and squid, technology could protect soldiers and structures

Incident increases associated with elevated blood pressure in black, Latino adults