public health

Bacterium used as a live sensor to detect heavy metal contamination

UCI will launch two new undergraduate and graduate student certificate programs later this year aimed at advancing workforce diversity in the public health field. Funded by a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the healthcare and public health analytics and the public health informatics certificates were created in partnership […]

Program goal is to solve complex environmental challenges

Closing the persistent gap between the benefits of electronic devices and their toxic waste requires innovations in natural resource recovery, regulatory policies and consumer participation, according to Oladele Ogunseitan, UC Presidential Chair and UCI professor of population health and disease prevention. In an article recently published online in the journal One Earth, he discusses how […]

Parklike setting was most effective in reducing physiological and affective stress

Researchers urge extension of electronic devices’ useful life to cut carbon dioxide creation

UCI study shows how climate mitigation options would affect health of various communities

California water districts and ratepayers will serve as test subjects

Prenatal exposure to a widespread environmental pollutant can deplete egg cells and cause damage to developing ovaries in mouse fetuses, according to a recent study led by Dr. Ulrike Luderer, Ph.D., UCI professor of environmental and occupational health and corresponding author. The team’s findings, published online in Toxicological Sciences, showed that the developing ovaries were […]

Brian Cummings, UCI professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation and founding member of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a training program that supports first-generation and underserved students pursuing careers in public health and regenerative medicine. […]