News Archives

2023

12/26/2023
A Thorny Problem: Glyphosate and 2,4-D Associated with Neurobehavioral Effects for Ecuadorian Adolescents
Faculty Mentioned: Jose Ricardo Suarez, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, and Briana Chronister, JDP candidate

12/14/2023
The Human Cost of The Daily Commute
Faculty Mentioned: James Sallis, PhD, Distinguished Professor

12/13/2023
8 Signs That You Are Aging Well in Your 50s
Faculty Mentioned: Aladdin Shadyab, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor

11/21/2023
Dementia Dangers: How Hearing Loss Rewires the Brain
Faculty Mentioned: Linda McEvoy, PhD, Professor Emeritus

11/12/2023
CBD, delta-8, THCA: Texas Hemp Shop Raid Highlights Legal, Safety Issues
Faculty Mentioned: Eric Leas, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor

11/08/2023
California Banned the Sales of Flavored Tobacco Products, but Researchers Say Online Sales Have Boomed
Faculty Mentioned: Eric Leas, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor

11/03/2023
Disposable Vapes Are Creating an Even Bigger Problem Than Juul
Faculty Mentioned: John Pierce, PhD, Distinguished Professor

11/01/2023
Texas A&M Water-Energy-Food Nexus Helps Tackle Water Scarcity
Faculty Mentioned: Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, Professor

10/19/2023
ChatGPT Isn’t Your Doctor But Gives Pretty Good Health Advice
Faculty Mentioned: Eric Leas, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor

10/16/2023
Common Herbicides Linked to Diminished Brain Functioning in Young Adults
Faculty Mentioned: Jose Ricardo Suarez, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, and Briana Chronister, JDP candidate

10/16/2023
5% or More Unintentional Weight Loss Linked to Lower Life Expectancy for Older Women
Faculty Mentioned: Aladdin Shadyab, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor

10/11/2023
Toxicologists Reveal Popular Weed Killer May Harm Teenage Brains
Faculty Mentioned: Briana Chronsiter, MS, JDP candidate, and Jose Ricardo Suarez, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor

10/10/2023
U.N. Secretary-General Says Israel’s Complete Seize of Gaza Strip Will ‘Deteriorate Exponentially’ the Already-dire Humanitarian Situation There
Faculty Mentioned: Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, Professor

10/02/2023
The Four Year Dilemma: To Learn or to Eat?
Mentions research by: Sarah Lee, Melissa Tran, Juanyu Zhang, Christine Zoumas-Morse, MS, RD, Lecturer, and Victoria Park, Chaeyoung Kim, Emily Pantoja, Alexandra Olmedo

09/27/2023
Climate Change Is Hurting Our Mental Health. How ‘Climate Cafes' Can Help
Faculty Mentioned: Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, Professor

09/21/2023
Women are at Higher Risk of Memory Problems
Faculty Mentioned: Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH, Distinguished Professor

09/16/2023
Consistent Body Weight Tied to Longevity in Women
Faculty Mentioned: Aladdin H. Shadyab, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, and Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH, Distinguished Professor

09/12/2023
UC San Diego TV Wins Four Annual Telly Awards for 'Breaking Through the Static'
Faculty Mentioned: John Pierce, PhD, Distinguished Professor, and Dean Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH

09/03/2023
Not All Weight Loss Is Good: The Counterintuitive Finding That Could Extend Your Lifespan
Faculty Featured: Aladdin H. Shadyab, PHD, MPH, Associate Professor

08/29/2023
Stable Weight Linked to Longevity for Post-Menopausal Women, Study Shows
Faculty Featured: Aladdin H. Shadyab, PHD, MPH, Associate Professor

08/21/2023
Electric Stoves Reduce Climate Emissions and Hospitalizations
Faculty Featured: Carlos Gould, PhD, Assistant Professor

08/03/2023
Peer Review This: How Research Is Produced and Published Might Be Fundamentally Flawed
Faculty Featured: Camille Nebeker, EdD, Professor

08/01/2023
Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize
Faculty Featured: James Sallis, PhD, Distinguished Professor, and Jacob Carson, Master of Public Health student

07/31/2023
Wildfire Smoke May Pose Risk for Brain Health
Faculty Featured: Carlos Gould, PhD, Assistant Professor

07/31/2023
Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize, Increase Community
Faculty Featured: James Sallis, PhD, Distinguished Professor, and Jacob Carson, Master of Public Health student

07/26/2023
A Study that Started with Lipids has Expanded to Other Health Issues
Faculty Featured: Donna Kritz-Silverstein, PhD, Professor, Gail Laughlin, PhD, Associate Professor, and Linda McEvoy, PhD, Professor Emeritus

07/20/2023
Exploring the Robust Delta 8 Gummies Market in the United States
Features research by Eric Leas, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, and Yuyan Shi, PhD, Associate Professor

07/13/2023
Walkable Neighborhoods Encourage Stronger Sense of Community
Featured: Jacob R. Carson, Joint Doctoral Program Student

07/11/2023
Why You Might Feel Older Than You Actually Are
Faculty Featured: Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH, Distinguished Professor

06/20/2023
Walkable Neighborhoods are Better for Community Health, UC San Diego Study Finds
Faculty Featured: James Sallis, PhD, Distinguished Professor, and Jacob Carson, Master of Public Health student

05/25/2023
10+ Thinkers, 200 Words, One Questions: What's Your Advice for San Diego's College Grads?
Faculty Featured: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD, MSPH, Assistant Professor

04/19/2023
A Quarter of Americans Live with Polluted Air, with People of Color and those in Western States Disproportionately Affected, Report Says
Faculty Featured: Tarik Benmarhnia, PhD, MSc, MEng, Associate Professor

04/10/2023
Why the Mediterranean Diet Benefeicial for Women's Heart
Faculty Featured: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, Professor and Dean

04/04/2023
Republicans Must Get Over Their Fear of Medicare
Faculty Featured: Richard Kronick, PhD, Professor

04/03/2023
Let's Talk About Menopause! - Part 1 | Part 2
Faculty Featured: Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH, Distinguished Professor

03/25/2023
Pope Francis and Health
Faculty Featured: Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, Professor

03/20/2023
Why the Mediterranean Diet May Be Especially Beneficial for Women’s Heart Health
Features: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, Professor and Dean

03/15/2023
Air Pollution Raises Risk for First-Year ED Visits in Preterm, Full-Term Infants
Faculty featured: Anaïs Teyton, MPH, Joint Doctoral Program student

02/28/2023
What Does Intuitive AI and ChatGPT Mean for Research?
Faculty featured: Camille Nebeker, EdD

02/28/2023
California and San Diego County's Pandemic Emeregencies are Over, What's Next
Faculty featured: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD, MSPH, Assistant Professor

02/22/2023
E-Bikes or EVs? Rooftop Panels or Solar Farms? As San Diegans Weigh How to Fight Climate Change, Key Challenges Emerge
Faculty featured: Tarik Benmarhnia, PhD, Msc, MEng, Associate Professor

02/22/2023
Infants Exposed to Fine Particulate Matter at Higher Risk of Emergency Room Visits
Faculty featured: Anaïs Teyton, MPH, Graduate Student Researcher

02/17/2023
Walking Just 1,800 Steps Every Day Could Cut Your Dementia Risk by a Third, Science Says
Faculty featured: Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH, Distinguished Professor

02/16/2023
Preventing Dementia and Cognitive Impairment: The Powerful Benefits of More Steps and Moderate ExerciseUCSD Embarks on Three-year, $3 Million Effort to Train 200 Community Health Workers
Faculty featured: Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH, Distinguished Professor, and Steven Nguyen, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Scholar

02/07/2023
UCSD Embarks on Three-year, $3 Million Effort to Train 200 Community Health Workers
Faculty featured: Wael Al-Deliamy, MD, PhD

01/30/2023
After the Vaccine, Republicans Became Far More Likely to Die with Covid-19 Than Democrats
Faculty featured: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD, MSPH

01/26/2023
Exercise Could Help Prevent Mental Decline
Faculty featured: Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH

01/19/2023
The link between exercise and severe COVID symptoms
Faculty featured: James Sallis, PhD

01/16/2023
Exercise Helps Blunt the Effects of Covid-19, Study Suggests
Faculty featured: James Sallis, PhD

01/14/2023
Physicians Addressing Climate Change
Faculty featured: Wael Al-Deliamy, MD, PhD

01/14/2023
When Public Health and Urology Intersect: Finding the Path Forward
Faculty featured: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH

01/14/2023
A Mental Health Tech Company Ran an AI Experiment on Real Users
Faculty featured: Camille Nebeker, EdD

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2022

04/25/2022
Commuting To Work Can Be Bad For Your Health, Research Shows. Here’s Why.
Faculty featured: James Sallis, PhD

04/19/2022
Heart Inflammation Very Rare After COVID Vaccination
Faculty featured: Margaret Ryan, MD, MPH

03/30/2022
Eating 2 servings a week of 1 fatty fruit can reduce heart attack risk, study says
Faculty featured: Cheryl A.M. Anderson, PhD, MPH

03/24/2022
White House invites UCSD student to talk about health equity
Student featured: Alec Calac, Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health candidate

03/22/2022
These were the best and worst places for air quality in 2021, new report shows
Faculty featured: Tarik Benmarhnia, PhD, MSc

03/15/2022
Plot Twist: Boring Chores Like Washing Dishes Might Actually Benefit Heart Health
Student featured: Steven Nguyen, PhD, MPH, postdoctoral scholar

03/14/2022
UC San Diego Awarded $38 Million USAID Grant to Improve Global Health Equity
Faculty featured: Holly Shakya, PhD

03/07/2022
AHA News: Break Up Binge-Watching by Taking a Stand
Faculty featured: Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH

03/07/2022
E-Cigarettes Are Not Helping People Quit Smoking
Faculty featured: John P. Pierce, PhD

02/28/2022
Social Isolation and Loneliness Linked to Heart Disease
Faculty featured: John Bellettiere, PhD and Natalie Golaszewski, PhD, postdoctoral scholar

02/25/2022
New CDC guidance recommends some communities still wear masks in San Diego County
Faculty featured: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD

02/24/2022
UCSD heart patient beats odds one pedal at a time
Faculty featured: Lori Daniels, MD

02/15/2022
How to Reduce Inflammation in the Body Fast
Faculty featured: Suzi Hong, PhD

02/14/2022
When will CA’s school mask mandate end? Not for at least two more weeks
Faculty featured: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD

02/08/2022
Proposed pay bump for Medicare Advantage could keep market strong
Faculty featured: Richard Kronick, PhD

02/07/2022
Loneliness Can Be Unhealthy Heartbreaker for Older Women
Featuring: John Bellettiere, PhD and Natalie Golaszewski, PhD, postdoctoral scholar

02/07/2022
E-cigarettes were less effective than gum and other nicotine replacement aids, study says
Featuring: John P. Pierce, PhD, and Karen Messer, PhD

02/07/2022
E-cigarettes are NO more effective at helping smokers quit than going cold turkey, study reveals
Featuring: John P. Pierce, PhD, and Karen Messer, PhD

02/03/2022
County officials say virus activity higher than lab-reported cases
Faculty featured: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD

02/03/2022
In-Depth: Data shows omicron surge in San Diego fueled by high case rates, few severe outcomes
Faculty featured: David Bazzo, MD

02/02/2022
Lonely older women at greater risk of heart disease, new research suggests
Faculty featured: John Bellettiere, PhD and Natalie Golaszewski, PhD, postdoctoral scholar

02/01/2022
Fitness trackers are improving our physical health, but what about our mental wellbeing?
Faculty featured: Elizabeth Eikey, PhD

01/14/2022
COLUMN-A quiet experiment is testing broader privatization of U.S. Medicare
Faculty featured: Richard Kronick, PhD

01/04/2022
Some GOP leaders are scornful or silent about booster shots seen as key to fighting omicron
Faculty featured: Richard Garfein, PhD, MPH

2021

01/15/2021
The race is on for medical treatment of NASH
Faculty featured: Rohit Loomba, MD

01/15/2021
Covid-19 deaths in San Diego County have doubled since Thanksgiving
Faculty featured: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD

01/07/2021
Commentary: Health experts and other San Diego leaders must unite to better coordinate pandemic response
Faculty featured: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS

2020

9/28/2020

Vaping vs. Smoking: Is One Better for Your Lungs? Here's What Experts Say
HWSPH Faculty featured: John Pierce, PhD, Karen Messer, PhD

9/28/2020
Statins could reduce COVID-19 severity and hospital stays, study finds
HWSPH Faculty featured: Karen Messer, PhD

9/21/2020
Midday Edition Special: COVID-19 And The Childcare Crisis

HWSPH Faculty featured: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD

9/16/2020
Population Density Does Not Doom Cities to Pandemic Dangers
HWSPH Faculty featured: James Sallis, PhD (Emeritus)

9/15/2020
California Virus Infections Slow, but County Sees Cases Rise
HWSPH Faculty featured: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD

9/7/2020

E-cigarettes are most widely used smoking cessation aid, but don't work
HWSPH Faculty featured: John Pierce, PhD, Karen Messer, PhD

9/7/2020
5 Places You're Most Likely to Catch COVID
HWSPH Faculty featured: Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH

8/31/2020

Commentary: Italy has turned the corner on COVID-19. The U.S. can still learn from it

HWSPH Faculty featured: Nancy Binkin, MD, MPH

8/26/2020

Google searches for ‘panic attack,’ ‘anxiety attack’ hit all-time high amid coronavirus

HWSPH Faculty featured: Eric Leas, PhD, MPH

8/24/2020

Are schools reopening safely? UC San Diego experts recommend measures beyond state guidelines

HWSPH Faculty featured: Kimberly Brouwer, PhD

8/18/2020

UCSD epidemiologist discusses the science behind reopening San Diego County schools
HWSPH Faculty featured: Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD

8/12/2020

As plexiglass barriers become the future of indoor dining, experts worry they may not be enough

HWSPH Faculty featured: Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD