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Biden's 13-member COVID-19 task force includes three from UCSF

This morning, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced the establishment of a coronavirus advisory board, the first step in their commitment to developing a national strategy to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control. 

Climate change will give rise to more cancers

UCSF study focuses on global impact for major cancers and steps needed to lessen risks

Lydia Zablotska’s efforts win epidemiology a seat at the table at the Radiation Research Society

This week, when the Radiation Research Society (RRS) holds its annual meeting virtually, it will for the first time formally include epidemiology as a discipline among its ranks, with Lydia Zablotska,

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.