BOOKSHELF Research; she was also elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and received the 2020 Inaugural Data Equity Award from the Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL). Dr. Thomas Rice was named to the editorial advisory board of the journal Milbank Quarterly. Dr. Anne Rimoin received the Global Achievement Award from the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association. Dr. Beate Ritz was reappointed to the California Air Resources Board’s Scientific Review Panel. Dr. Linda Rosenstock received the “100 in 100” achievement honor for women from UCLA Health. Dr. Brennan Spiegel’s book, “VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine,” was named one of the top eight science books of 2020 by Wired magazine.
Committee for the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo. Dr. May Wang was named to the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research program. Dr. Nathan D. Wong was elected president of the InterAmerican Heart Foundation in December 2020. Dr. Weng Kee Wong was named a Yushan Scholar by the Taiwan Ministry of Education. Dr. Elizabeth Yano was named to the National Institutes of Health’s Steering Committee on Sex and Gender Differences for the NIH Vivian Pinn Symposium and to the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military.
Dr. Candace Tsai was named a member of the Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances
Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue By Emily K. Abel
VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine, 1st Edition By Brennan Spiegel
Chapter: “Federal Policies and Health” in Immigrant California: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Policy By Ninez Ponce
Health Systems in Transition: USA
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Dr. Marc A. Suchard was named one of the world’s most influential scientific researchers by the Clarivate Web of Science Group, and one of his research articles was cited by the MIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics as a “Best Article.” Dr. Paul Torrens received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Partners in Care Foundation.
Recent books by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health authors:
By Thomas Rice, Pauline Rosenau, Lynn Y. Unruh, and Andrew J. Barnes
Health Insurance Systems: An International Comparison, 1st Edition By Thomas Rice
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