Gary Gates appointed to BLS Data Users Advisory Committee
NewsCongratulations to Dr. Gary Gates who has been appointed as a member of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Users Advisory Committee!
Congratulations to Amada Armenta (2011 Ph.D.) on accepting the tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania!
NewsCongratulations to Paul Chung, M.D., M.S.!
NewsDear Colleagues:
Please join me in congratulating Paul Chung, M.D., M.S., on his new
appointment as:
Chief, Division of General Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
The…
Congrats to Tara McKay!
NewsTara McKay has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation for her project titled “The Local Implementation of Global AIDS Prevention Policies.”
William Clark comments on “Is California Too Big?”
NewsSure—and why stop at two? Not that it’ll solve anything.
About 60 percent of the countries that make up the United Nations are smaller than Los Angeles County, yet many of these nations would prefer to split themselves into even smaller…
Prof. Alison Buttenheim comments on immunizations for children in California
NewsProf. Alison Buttenheim (Princeton University) and Malia Jones (UCLA) are sited by the media for their work on children vaccination: "Many Parents Skipping Kids' Shots, Putting Other Kids at Risk"
Wall Street Journal:
http://onespot.wsj.com/health/2011/10/31/bbb6c/many-parents-skipping-kids-shots-putting
MSNBC:
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/autism/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100281500
USNEWS:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2011/10/31/many-parents-skipping-kids-shots-putting-other-kids-at-risk
ABC-Good…
Congratulations to Camilia Lui and Steven Wallace for CDC-PCD 2011 Student Research Contest!
NewsAnnouncement updated 8/15/11
PCD is pleased to announce that A Common Denominator: Calculating Hospitalization Rates for Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Conditions in California by Camillia K. Lui and Steven P. Wallace is the winner of the 2011…
NPR Radio: Gossip Sheds Light on Africans view of the AIDS Epidemic
NewsResearch conducted by Prof. Susan Watkins and associates on how gossip helps in the AIDS fight are discuss on WBEZ: This American Life.
Listen to program here
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/444/gossip
iTunes podcast…
Congratulations Anita on your VA Postdoctoral Fellowship!
NewsAnita Yuan has accepted a VA Associated Health Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Veteran's Affairs of Greater Los Angeles HSR&D Center of Excellence for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior. Anita plans to begin her two-year fellowship…
Congratulations! Prof. Sweeney to serve on PAA Board of Directors.
NewsProf. Megan Sweeney was recently elected to a three-year term on the Population Association of America’s Board of Directors (2012-14). She'll be joining two other CCPR affiliates currently on the PAA Board: Judith Seltzer and Patrick Heuveline.
Full…