Yearly Archives: 2015

Recently, while William, 21, was manning the chicken-wing fryer at a fast-food restaurant in suburban Seattle, he pulled aside his sort-of girlfriend, 18, a pizza deliverer there. He had bad news.

He had tested positive for gonorrhea and chlamydia. That meant she was very likely infected.

Loud, insult-fueled cross-accusations ensued. But the conversation did not disintegrate, as might otherwise be expected.

That is because William, who asked to be identified by his middle name to protect his privacy, was able to include some good news. The sort-of girlfriend — his term — would not need to face the hassle and embarrassment of being tested.

His clinic had issued prescriptions for them both; William himself could give her the antibiotics. For free. Immediately.

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Dr. Rotheram’s Slides

January 26, 2015 – Dr. Rotheram provided the Keynote Address for CHIPTS’ Cross-Core meeting, focusing on her work with community health workers in South Africa.

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CHIPTS Methods Seminar – UCLA-Semel Institute Center for Community Health

Sudipto Banerjee, PhD
Professor and Chair
Dept. of Biostatistics
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Tuesday, February 3, 2-3pm
Center for Community Health, UCLA Wilshire Center
10920 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 350, Conference Room

Advances in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and related software have led to a burgeoning of spatial-temporal databases. Statisticians and spatial analysts today routinely encounter situations where they seek to model relationships among variables across space and time. In recent times interest has turned to inferring about rates of change of health outcomes over space and time. Why are such questions relevant and how should we estimate them? One example considers analyzing monthly hospitalization rates aggregated over the counties in California where hospital management seeks to carry out inference on gradients of the temporal process, while at the same time accounting for spatial similarities across neighboring regions. Another example (an extension) is to analyze spatial-temporal gradients for environmental pollutants to understand the nature of dispersal of pollutants. Here, we are interested in directional rates of change over space at any given time, temporal gradients at any given location and even “mixed” gradients, e.g., how the temporal rate of change varies over space. We will work within a fully Bayesian inferential paradigm without unnecessary, and potentially inflexible, parametric modeling assumptions and obtain the full posterior predictive distribution for these gradients using process-based models.

(Co-authors: Harrison Quick and Bradley P. Carlin)

LOS ANGELES — High on a ridge here, up a series of winding roads from Sunset Boulevard, up where coyotes skulk into backyards, up and away from the sprawling megalopolis of nearly four million people, Joel Simkhai recently bought himself a tear-down.

The house is a white cube, three bedrooms and two baths. There is a pergola and there is an oval pool. The pergola and the oval pool and the ugly white cube do not much matter because the house was purchased for one reason — and that is its 15,911-square-foot lot.

From this multimillion-dollar apron of land overlooking Los Angeles can be seen a commanding panorama. It extends in a broad and vertiginous sweep from the spine of the Santa Monica Mountains across the flat Los Angeles Basin, east to the high-rises of downtown and west to the scimitar arc of the Pacific coastline.

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https://chipts.ucla.edu/get-involved/join-a-study/

The UCLA CARE Center is currently enrolling participants for a 2 year study looking at the safety and acceptability of an injectable drug that may be used to prevent HIV

• HIV negative?
• Between 18 and 65?
• At low risk for HIV?

For more Information, about this study, visit http://tiny.cc/hptn077

Call 310-557-9062 or email careoutreach@mednet.ucla.edu to schedule a screening visit