Public Health

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Stemming the Rising Mental Health Crisis

UCI researchers help illuminate the complexities of the mind and find solutions to prevent a twin pandemic

Public health study presents strategies for increasing diversity of clinical trials

In a paper published online in cell.com/Neuron, Bernadette Boden-Albala, founding dean of the planned School of Population & Public health and director of the Program in Public Health, highlights three key areas for increasing the participation of women and racial/ethnic minorities in clinical trials. Diversity delivers greater generalizability of results, more ethically sound research and […]

Professor of public health gets grant to study in utero effects on male and female lifespans

Tim Bruckner, Ph.D., professor of health, society and behavior in the Program in Public Health, has been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the differences in male and female lifespans. According to health data, men do not live as long as women, and Bruckner and his team will […]

Theresa Duong

Giving back to her community

Ph.D. student Theresa Duong seeks to raise awareness of HPV among Vietnamese-Americans

Connie Valencia

For Connie Valencia, this research is personal

The public health doctoral student’s dissertation looks at the community impacts of air pollution in her home neighborhood of Boyle Heights

UCI Health Town Hall zoom: (pictured): Dr. Steven Goldstein, UCI vice chancellor for health affairs, the Zoom event featured Dr. Susan Huang, director of epidemiology and infection prevention at UCI Health; David Souleles, director of UCI’s COVID-19 response team; Bernadette Boden-Albala, director and founding dean of UCI’s Program in Public Health; Ramona Agrela, UCI vice chancellor and chief human resources executive; and Michael Dennin, dean of UCI’s Division of Undergraduate Education and vice provost for teaching and learning.

UCI Health Affairs town hall provides the latest on COVID-19

Campus leaders host virtual event to share information on the omicron variant and what to expect this winter

UCI-led study offers framework for including racism’s health effects in pharmacy curricula

Racism has been declared a national public health crisis by the American Public Health Association. With the minority population in the U.S. being the fastest-growing demographic, experts say, it’s essential that healthcare professionals recognize the social determinants of health among racial and ethnic minorities. Education and training, they say, should begin in school so that […]

UCLA and UCI create novel center that addresses cardiovascular disease among LAC and OC minority communities

Center will also fund pilot projects for community organizations and train underrepresented postdoctoral fellows and young investigators

Businesses selling non-FDA-approved stem cell products grew four-fold in five years, UCI study says

California, Texas and Florida are U.S. leaders, which now has most facilities of any country

UCI’s Shahir Masri is co-first author of study showing how chemical intolerances develop

Shahir Masri, Sc.D., a research specialist in air pollution exposure assessment and epidemiology in UCI’s Program in Public Health, is co-first author of a study that demonstrates evidence of the mechanism for how and why people develop unexplained intolerances to chemicals, foods and drugs. Findings are published online in the journal Environmental Sciences Europe. Although […]