scholarly journals Safe reopening of college campuses during COVID-19: The University of California experience in Fall 2020

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0258738
Author(s):  
Brad H. Pollock ◽  
A. Marm Kilpatrick ◽  
David P. Eisenman ◽  
Kristie L. Elton ◽  
George W. Rutherford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Health Science ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Test Results ◽  
California Department ◽  
School Year ◽  
Public Health Data ◽  
The University

Background Epidemics of COVID-19 in student populations at universities were a key concern for the 2020–2021 school year. The University of California (UC) System developed a set of recommendations to reduce campus infection rates. SARS-CoV-2 test results are summarized for the ten UC campuses during the Fall 2020 term. Methods UC mitigation efforts included protocols for the arrival of students living on-campus students, non-pharmaceutical interventions, daily symptom monitoring, symptomatic testing, asymptomatic surveillance testing, isolation and quarantine protocols, student ambassador programs for health education, campus health and safety pledges, and lowered density of on-campus student housing. We used data from UC campuses, the UC Health–California Department of Public Health Data Modeling Consortium, and the U.S. Census to estimate the proportion of each campus’ student populations that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and compared it to the fraction individuals aged 20–29 years who tested positive in their respective counties. Results SARS-CoV-2 cases in campus populations were generally low in September and October 2020, but increased in November and especially December, and were highest in early to mid-January 2021, mirroring case trajectories in their respective counties. Many students were infected during the Thanksgiving and winter holiday recesses and were detected as cases upon returning to campus. The proportion of students who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during Fall 2020 ranged from 1.2% to 5.2% for students living on campus and was similar to students living off campus. For most UC campuses the proportion of students testing positive was lower than that for the 20–29-year-old population in which campuses were located. Conclusions The layered mitigation approach used on UC campuses, informed by public health science and augmented perhaps by a more compliant population, likely minimized campus transmission and outbreaks and limited transmission to surrounding communities. University policies that include these mitigation efforts in Fall 2020 along with SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, may alleviate some local concerns about college students returning to communities and facilitate resumption of normal campus operations and in-person instruction.

scholarly journals Responding to the Opioid Epidemic: Educational Competencies for Pain and Substance Use Disorder from the Medical Schools of the University of California

Pain Medicine ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Servis ◽  
Scott M Fishman ◽  
Mark S Wallace ◽  
Stephen G Henry ◽  
Doug Ziedonis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorder ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Drug Misuse ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Opioid Crisis ◽  
The University

Abstract Objective The University of California (UC) leadership sought to develop a robust educational response to the epidemic of opioid-related deaths. Because the contributors to this current crisis are multifactorial, a comprehensive response requires educating future physicians about safe and effective management of pain, safer opioid prescribing, and identification and treatment of substance use disorder (SUD). Methods The six UC medical schools appointed an opioid crisis workgroup to develop educational strategies and a coordinated response to the opioid epidemic. The workgroup had diverse specialty and disciplinary representation. This workgroup focused on developing a foundational set of educational competencies for adoption across all UC medical schools that address pain, SUD, and public health concerns related to the opioid crisis. Results The UC pain and SUD competencies were either newly created or adapted from existing competencies that addressed pain, SUD, and opioid and other prescription drug misuse. The final competencies covered three domains: pain, SUD, and public health issues related to the opioid crisis. Conclusions The authors present a novel set of educational competencies as a response to the opioid crisis. These competencies emphasize the subject areas that are fundamental to the opioid crisis: pain management, the safe use of opioids, and understanding and treating SUD.

scholarly journals The META-Oak Project: Using Photovoice to Investigate Youth Perspectives on Tobacco Companies’ Marketing of E-Cigarettes Toward Adolescents in Oakland

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401985742
Author(s):  
Alison Chopel ◽  
R. Eugene Lee ◽  
Elizabeth Ortiz-Matute ◽  
Namiyé Peoples ◽  
Kim Homer Vagadori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Gap ◽  
Control Research ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Public Health Institute

The California Adolescent Health Collaborative, a project of the Public Health Institute, in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco’s Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education jointly led a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study engaging youth coresearchers to fill the critical gap in knowledge about youth’s perceptions of electronic cigarette products and how they are marketed toward young people in Oakland. Youth coresearchers who were trained as journalists partnered with the adult investigators to explore the e-cigarette topic from their perspective, embedded in the context of their own experiences and those of others in their communities. The goal of this exploratory CBPR study was to improve understanding of how and why youth (ages: 14-24 years) in Oakland are adopting (or resisting) e-cigarettes, how youth respond to increasing availability of e-cigarettes in their communities, and how they perceive communications about e-cigarettes (e.g., advertising) and in turn communicate about the products to each other.

Teaching but Not Preaching: Delivering Compulsory Ma-ori Public Health Content in an Undergraduate Health Science Degree

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-198
Author(s):  
Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
Educational Domain ◽  
Science Degree ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The University ◽  
Health Content

Increasingly recognized as an educational domain in its own right, Ma-ori health is a central focus of medical and health sciences curricula in Aotearoa/New Zealand. As part of the Bachelor of Health Sciences offered at the University of Canterbury, Ma-ori health content is taught in a compulsory introductory course “Ma-ori Health Issues & Opportunities” (HLTH 106), positioned at the interface of Ma-ori health and public health. The course follows a trajectory through Ma-ori history, the Treaty of Waitangi, colonization, and the emergence of inequities, ending with structural and Ma-ori-led approaches for redress. Much of the content challenges prevailing public discourses relating to Aotearoa/New Zealand’s settlement and status as an egalitarian society, the basis of many students’ preconceptions. A social determinants of health frame has supported the navigation of this “tricky” terrain, and the construction of evidence-based counternarratives. Iterative curriculum development demonstrated the value of taking account not only of learner needs but also the characteristics of public health that may hinder learning.

scholarly journals Tværfaglighed som ideal og praksis – folkesundhedsvidenskabelige erfaringer i at uddanne på tværs af faggrænser

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 113-123
Author(s):  
Annegrete Juul Nielsen ◽  
Signild Vallgårda
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Learning Objective ◽  
Explicit Learning ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
The University

Uddannelsespolitisk fokuseres der i stigende grad på tværfaglighed. Nye uddannelser, som kombinerer flere discipliner, etableres, og tværfaglighed er ofte et kriterium for finansiering af forskningsprojekter. Tværfaglighed associeres af mange med attraktive egenskaber og muligheder som skræddersyede studieforløb, flerstrengede kompetenceprofiler, det bedste fra forskellige discipliner, ny innovativ viden m. m. Men kan tværfaglighed virkelig høste det bedste fra alle verdner? Og hvad indebærer tværfaglighed egentlig? Den første del af artiklen diskuterer tværfaglighed ved at se nærmere på eksisterende definitioner af begrebet. Den anden del af artiklen ser nærmere på et konkret eksempel på hvordan tværfaglighed praktiseres på kandidatuddannelsen i Folkesundhedsvidenskab ved Københavns Universitet. Vi argumenterer for, at forskellige former for tværfaglighed skal ses som en ressource fremfor som et problem. Det springende punkt i dette argument er, at tværfagligheden bør gøres eksplicit fremfor at være implicit, da den ellers let bliver noget, vi overlader til de studerende at håndtere og praktisere. Det kan fx gøres ved at gøre tværfaglighed til et læringsmål i relevante kurser og opgaver og ved, at underviserne overvejer og formidler, hvilken form for tværfaglighed de efterstræber.  Interdisciplinarity is gaining ground within universities. The number of interdisciplinary programmes on offer is rising and funding bodies are increasingly showing a preference for research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Interdisciplinarity is attributed with a variety of positive qualities from the perspective of contemporary work and research practice: tailored study programmes, the possibility to combine the most important knowledge from different disciplines, the potential for new innovative knowledge to emerge, etc. But, is it really possible to have the best of all worlds? And what does interdisciplinarity actually entail? The first part of the paper takes a closer look at existing definitions and typologies of the concept. The second part focuses on a concrete example of interdisciplinarity – the programme in Public Health Science at the University of Copenhagen. We argue that the different types of interdisciplinarity identified in the first part of the paper are to be regarded as a resource rather than an obstacle. Interdisciplinary programmes like the programme in Public Health Science benefit from using different forms of interdisciplinarity at different times and to different extents. However, the dividing point in this argument is that this should be done explicitly and not implicitly, as interdisciplinarity otherwise easily is left for the students alone to handle or practice.  This might be achieved by making interdisciplinarity an explicit learning objective in relevant courses and assignments and by having teachers engage in reflecting and discussing the types of interdisciplinarity they practice in specific courses and when supervising student papers.

Numerical Modeling of Composite Concrete Walls

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eytan Kochavi ◽  
Yosef Kivity ◽  
Ido Anteby ◽  
Oren Sadot ◽  
Gabi Ben-Dor
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Dynamic Tests ◽  
Material Models ◽  
Concrete Walls ◽  
Beer Sheva ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
The University ◽  
Development Center ◽  
Good Agreement

Dynamic tests of three reinforced concrete samples and six Dynablok samples were performed in the blast simulator facility at the University of California San-Diego (UCSD). The purpose of these tests was to evaluate the performance of a novel protective wall design. These tests were numerically simulated at the Protective Technologies Research and Development Center (PTR&DC) of the Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Beer-Sheva, Israel. The simulations were carried out using two commercial hydro-codes: LS-Dyna and Dytran. The purpose of these simulations was to calibrate the parameters of the material models available in the above codes. Once calibrated, the simulation results showed good agreement with the test results for largely deflected yet moderately damaged specimens.

Note on an Apocynum Fabric

1947 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila M. O'Neale
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Final Report ◽  
California Department ◽  
West Central ◽  
Unique Object ◽  
The University ◽  
New Item

A textile specimen in the University of California Museum of Anthropology, perhaps to be identified as a sling pocket, adds a new item to the growing list of fabrications made of twisted dogbane fiber (Apocynum cannabinum).It is, moreover, constructed by a technique not to my knowledge previously reported. I am indebted to Professor Robert F. Heizer for calling my attention to this unique object and for the following paragraphs placing it in its relation to Nevada archeology.“The piece comes from a dry cave site (Humboldt Cave) in west central Nevada about 10 miles southwest of Lovelock Cave. The cave was excavated in 1936 by the University of California Department of Anthropology, and the final report on the excavation is now nearly completed.

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