Congratulations to Professor Mignon Moore

Congratulations to Mignon Moore, who has won the UCLA Academic Senate and Office of Instructional Development Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Mentorship!

Congratulations to Leah Boustan on Winning Sloan Research Fellowship!!!

The full list of winners is at http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/page/21

Gary Gates appointed to BLS Data Users Advisory Committee

Congratulations 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!

Congratulations to Paul Chung, M.D., M.S.!

Dear 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!

Tara 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?”

Sure—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

Prof. 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!

Announcement 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

Research 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…