Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Suellen Hopfer
Healthline, February 8, 2023

Giving Whooping Cough Shots in Pregnancy Helps Protect 9 Out of 10 Infants

"The most credible and obvious and straightforward channels are the pediatricians and physicians, but I think we just need to do a better job at disseminating and prioritizing this information through pharmacies. through social media…to reach young moms, as well as radio in multiple languages." (Suellen Hopfer)
Andrew Noymer
KNX, February 7, 2023

Deaths in California on the rise

"Absolutely, I’d say it’s quite directly related, these are deaths that are not being coded as COVID deaths, as the underlying cause of death, but COVID has impacted the mortality of Californians and people elsewhere, there are strokes and heart attacks that follow in the wake of COVID infection and in the coming years we are going to find out how long this effect lasts but in the meantime mortality is up." (Andrew Noymer)
Oladele-Ogunseitan
Healthline, December 16, 2022

MERS: What to Know About the Virus and if it Will Spread After the World Cup

"It’s kind of endemic in the[camel] population in the Middle East. And so when you have this festival that brings soccer fans from all over the world, at the same time, in the same country, as a camel showcase festival; physicians, and global health security people should be concerned." (Dele Ogunseitan)
Andrew Noymer
Daily Bruin, October 2, 2022

UC researchers win grant to develop pandemic prediction technology

"People overshare on social media all the time, but that can be exploited to our advantage. If we noticed patterns of hundreds of people all of a sudden tweeting about fever or pneumonia in such and such a city, that might be useful information." (Andrew Noymer)
Andrew Noymer
Spectrum News 1, September 28, 2022

Experts worry monkeypox is here to stay

"My biggest concern is that it can become endemic now at a very low level just because there are so many cases out there. And God forbid it finds its way into some squirrel population here. Then we’ll never get rid of it." (Andrew Noymer)
Bernadette Boden-Albala
Verywell Health, September 22, 2022

Is the Pandemic Really Over?

"We must be careful about saying it is over. We still need resources to continue vaccination and to address vaccine hesitancy." (Bernadette Boden-Albala)