Aug 04, 2021

UCI receives $700K from the City of Santa Ana to support new initiatives for health literacy, address barriers to COVID-19 resources in vulnerable populations

Professor of epidemiology Sora Tanjasiri, DrPH, MPH, one of UCI’s two principal investigators (PIs) on the project, commented, “The City of Santa Ana’s investment shows their continued commitment to better understanding barriers to care and implementing real world strategies to improve the health and well-being of our county’s most vulnerable populations.”
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Aug 03, 2021

Study finds cancer-related follow-up care is underutilized among young adult survivors of childhood cancer

Treatments for childhood cancers have been increasingly successful, with a greater than 80 percent 5-year survival rate. However, there are numerous, lifelong risks that appear in years following treatment. Thus, life-long surveillance is needed to prevent and reduce the severity of treatment-related late effects. Unfortunately, as survivors age, and their risk for late effects increases, engagement in survivorship care decreases.

Aug 02, 2021

UCI receives record $592 million in research funding for fiscal 2020-21

From cutting-edge research for advancing precision medicine to an innovative new effort for improving public water infrastructure to increase conservation, University of California, Irvine scholars, scientists and physicians are blazing new paths to help change the world. And their impact keeps growing. In fiscal 2020-21, which ended June 30, UCI received the most research funding in campus history: $592 million in grants and contracts.

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Jul 07, 2021

Behavioral Scientist Awarded NCI Grant to Study Disparities in Long-term Follow-up Care Among Cancer Survivors

Joel Milam, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, at the UCI Program in Public Health, was recently awarded an R01 project grant from the National Cancer Institute. The project, titled: “Individual, cultural, and area-based factors associated with survivorship care among Asian American childhood cancer survivors,” is a collaborative project with Kimberly Miller, MPH, PhD, with the Keck School of Medicine of USC.