When the pediatrics clinic at UCR Health , the clinical arm of the UCR School of Medicine , began receiving a high volume of calls because of the novel coronavirus, Dr. Adwoa Osei reached out to a few medical students for help. The students swiftly began modifying the Barton Schmitt COVID-19 protocol, a 10-page document densely packed with...
Some UC Riverside medical students are helping alleviate the shortage of personal protective equipment, or PPE, in inland Southern California by seeking donations from the community and delivering them to local hospitals. Nikita Kadakia, a third-year student in the School of Medicine, is the regional coordinator for Medical Supply Drive, or...
The COVID-19 Student Taskforce, a group of self-organized students in the Inland Empire, is working to create a support network for local community members and mitigate the social, economic, and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The task force was formed in early March this year by a group of UCR School of Medicine students and is comprised...
Data from Illinois, Michigan, and New York shows COVID-19 is disproportionally affecting socioeconomically disadvantaged and racial-ethnic minority Americans. These groups are likely to be among the hardest hit populations nationwide as well. Andrea N. Polonijo, a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Medicine, Population, &...
UC Riverside research could help design new tools to combat deadly diseases like malaria and dengue fever that affect nearly a billion people worldwide
COVID-19 has dramatically changed our everyday routines in ways that were unimaginable just a few months ago. With multiple changes occurring simultaneously in society, we often find ourselves playing catch up and feeling the need to constantly keep up with the fast-evolving information about the novel coronavirus. “This is anxiety provoking,” said...
The Office of Student Health Services, or SHS, on campus remains open to serve the needs of UC Riverside students. However, patients must now be screened before they enter the clinic to ensure the safety of all patients and staff due to COVID-19 Nichole Sparks, SHS business operations manager, answers a few questions: On average, how many students...
Communities in eastern Coachella Valley, who speak Spanish and Purépecha, are in dire need of information about COVID-19. A medical anthropologist at the UC Riverside School of Medicine is spearheading an outreach effort to educate the communities about social distancing. The outreach efforts focus on Thermal, Oasis, North Shore, and Mecca —...
UC Riverside graduate students, Kavya Samudrala and William Ota, have each been named winners of the 2020 STEM Solutions in Public Policy Award, which recognizes an outstanding proposal for new California state legislation from University of California graduate students in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, or STEM, fields. The...
Editor's note: On March 31, 2020, Riverside County health officials issued a recommendation for facemasks. During the coronavirus outbreak, it is not uncommon to find people wearing facemasks. Do these masks protect those who are well? Who should wear them? Dr. Kenneth Han, chief medical officer at the Office of Student Health Services on campus...
The Office of Student Health Services at UC Riverside has a limited number of kits from Quest Diagnostics for COVID-19 testing and is currently using them for designated students who meet Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria. At this time, the office is not offering a drive-thru option, where a student remains in the car while the...
Epidemiologist Brandon Brown, an associate professor in the Center for Heathy Communities in the UCR School of Medicine, breaks down several coronavirus myths that have been recently circulating. Only older people get coronavirus. False, people over age 65 are more likely to have a severe illness, sometimes fatal, from infection. Anyone is at risk...
Monica J. Carson, who holds the S. Sue Johnson Presidential Endowed Chair at UC Riverside, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Bernard Haber Award in recognition of her contributions to the world’s neurochemical societies. The award, given by the American Society for Neurochemistry, is accompanied by a plaque and $5,000. Created in 2005...
The Center for Health Disparities Research at UC Riverside held its inaugural symposium on Feb. 20 at UCR Palm Desert. Approximately 70 researchers and community members attended the event. Also referred to as HDR@UCR, the center was founded in August 2019 and is funded by a grant of $16 million from the National Institutes of Health’s National...
Brandon Brown, an associate professor in the Center for Healthy Communities in the UCR School of Medicine, has been invited to participate in the 2020 National Academy of Medicine's Emerging Leaders Forum in Washington, D.C. The invitation-only event, which will take place mid-March, connects 70 emerging leaders working across health, medicine, and...
