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Incentive-based smoking cessation programs could work in hard-to-reach pockets of smokers across the developing world

While rates of cigarette smoking continue to inch down worldwide, tobacco use still accounts for 6.4 million deaths a year. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are particularly hard hit, seeing nearly three-quarters of those deaths. In a study published today in BMJ, Justin White, PhD – an...

Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Data Science Applications to Cognitive Aging and Brain Health

The San Francisco VA Health Care System is recruiting for an advanced two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Epidemiology with a focus on using data science and genetic approaches to solve new challenges in cognitive and brain health research. The fellowship is associated with the Sierra...

'Long Island Divided' series wins Edward R. Murrow Prize

Ed note: Isabel Elaine Allen designed the approach for Newsday's investigation into housing discrimination in Long Island.

UCSF and Louisiana Public Health Institute receive nearly $5 million for COVID-19 research and analysis

Project will analyze behaviors, beliefs, testing, and symptoms using COVID-19 Citizen Science mobile-app and PCORnet

Most infants are well even when moms are infected by COVID-19

UCSF study shows reassuring initial findings for infant health

UCSF’s Covidseeker to track the coronavirus with cell phone data

Participants can donate their Google location history to promote a safer reopening

A new theory asks: Could a mask be a crude ‘vaccine’?

Scientists float a provocative — and unproven — idea: that masks expose the wearer to just enough of the virus to spark a protective immune response.

Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood causes poorer cardiovascular health

If an expert were to point to a down-at-heels neighborhood and declare that people who live there have worse health than people who live in a more prosperous neighborhood nearby, few of us would be surprised. But does the neighborhood introduce health risks, or does it simply group together people...

Eastmont Mall Site of Mass COVID-19 Testing Event on Aug. 22-23 Led by Dr. Kim Rhoads

Oakland residents are invited to Eastmont Mall August 22-23, 2020, to attend the largest COVID-19 testing event ever staged in the East Bay. Umoja Health, a network of doctors in San Francisco, and Oakland Frontline Healers anticipate that more than 1,000 people per day will be tested via drive-...

Op-Ed: How the pandemic divided California in two

California marked a grim milestone this week, surpassing 11,000 COVID-19 deaths and 600,000 cases. With the coronavirus outbreak still raging in many parts of the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom is toggling between tightening restrictions in some places and rolling them back in others.