During the week of June 5, UC Irvine researchers took over NPR’s “The Academic Minute” podcast, a valuable platform that spotlights notable academic studies addressing some of the more interesting and pressing issues of the day. Each day, a UCI researcher briefly discussed their timely research and it’s relevance. Three of the five segments for June 5-9 featured Health Affairs faculty, including:
Monday, June 5: Saurabh Chatterjee, professor of environmental and occupational health and professor of medicine at UCI School of Medicine, shared his research on the proliferation of damaging blue-green algae blooms and the curious link this symptom of climate change may have with non-alcoholic liver disease, which is at epidemic levels.
Tuesday, June 6: Jung In Park, assistant professor at the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, discussed her research on how machine learning models focused on only Hispanic & Black breast cancer patients better predict survival for Hispanic & Black patients than broader models.
Thursday, June 8: Keri Hurley-Kim, associate clinical professor at the UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, explored identifying disparities to improve vaccination rates for all.
At Health Affairs, we take great pride in the diversity and range of our research discoveries. Please tune in to hear about the extraordinary work of our colleagues!
Listen to all of the UCI Academic Minute features by visiting:
npr.org/podcasts/564572329/the-academic-minute
Inside Higher Ed also features The Academic Minute segments at insidehighered.com.
