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public health

Roxane Cohen Silver

NSF supports research studying how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affects Americans

Roxane Cohen Silver leads UCI team awarded a RAPID grant to begin survey

UCI researchers receive state funding to study pandemic forecasting

COVID Modeling Consortium resources designed to strengthen response to future outbreaks

E. Alison Holman

Understanding the health effects of collective trauma

Research by Alison Holman finds negative mental, physical outcomes possible even if you weren’t there

Jun Wu

UCI researchers find fewer low-cost air pollution sensors in disadvantaged communities

First-of-its-kind state study examined distribution, sociodemographic factors over time

Oladele Ogunseitan

Antibiotic resistance: The hidden healthcare crisis

Overuse has led to the creation of superbugs, rendering current drugs ineffective

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