#FollowBack #Fridays at UC San Diego ACTRI D&I Science Center! We have many opportunities for #students #postdocs & #researchers to engage in #DIscience & learn from experts! Thank you for following us! Yan Nee @HCRCS Institute for Implementation Science in HealthCare Biomedicina BCN @efaMartinez

Our new article from UC San Diego School of Medicine Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and Kaiser Permanente covers recent advances in the epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children. Read free at Pediatric Obesity with author's link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/F…

$6.1M @NICHD_NIH grant will help researchers study effects of maternal antibiotic use on infant health, as part of new collaborative research center Congrats to Adriana Tremoulet @Dr_LarsBode Shirley Tsunoda Pieter Dorrestein ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET Brookie Best & team! health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/…

Microplastics in the food chain as a source of liver and endocrine dysfunction #NASH #diabetes #Cancer link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Study of 4 Million adults in Korea followed for a decade: found that NAFLD was associated with higher risk for dementia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/li…

We're excited to have Dr Knott’s research highlighted on a recent The Leakey Foundation podcast. Guest/author Evan Hadingham cites Knott’s work on orangutan reproductive ecology among the most important discoveries in human origins in the last 50 years. radiopublic.com/origin-stories…

"It does not matter what discipline of nursing you are practicing in, you get the opportunity to touch lives and make a difference through caring, compassion, knowledge, skill, and excellence." --Bernadette Cale, RN, MSN #NursesWeek2022

We are hiring for the role of Bilingual Communications Specialist. Apply today! employment.ucsd.edu/communications…

Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Children with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology cghjournal.org/article/S1542-…

Happy #WorldRainforestDay2022! This year’s theme is #TheTimeIsNow. Did you know, although #rainforests only cover about 2% of the Earth’s surface area, they harbor 50% of all terrestrial biodiversity? What do you love about rainforests?

This July, in-person seminars UC San Diego on cardiovascular sciences featuring our own Emma Farley 🇪🇺, Cheryl Anderson, Dr. Gary Firestein, and @Kdeleonpennell of MUSC! Visit focus.ucsd.edu to learn more. Join us; all are welcome! UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School Public Health UCSD Altman Clinical & Translational Research Inst @joann_trejo #UCSD_FOCUS

Hepatology: GOALS study of 822 children with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is 2 studies in 1; shows NAFLD risk and histologic severity are associated with genetic polymorphisms. HEPATOLOGY Journal UC San Diego Health Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego CCBB Brin Rosenthal, Ph.D. NIDDK doi.org/10.1002/hep.32…

Great talk by GPOCP’s Dr Cheryl Knott this morning at Universitas Nasional for the Symposium on Women & Primatology!

We’re so excited to have some of our US-based team back in Indonesia for the first time in 3 years! First task at the research station — take lots of photos in our new matching hoodies! 🇮🇩🦧

New paper alert 🚨! Very excited to be a co-author with @tinkeringprim8 and Cheryl Knott on our paper documenting a composite menstrual cycle for orangutans. We looked at 44 menstrual cycles of 7 female orangutans and their sexual behaviors. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Berani, an orangutan who we've followed for 14 years, is pregnant w/ her first baby! Did you know regular human pregnancy tests can be used on orangutans? It detects the same hormone, hCG, which is produced at the start of pregnancy in both humans &orangs. savegporangutans.org/a-new-oranguta…

Prevent colon cancer. Screening at 45.

Read about the ACTRI's Center for Community Health and their efforts with the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative in the latest issue of The Nation's Health thenationshealth.org/content/52/8/1…

📣We're happy to announce that the ACTRI CCH, in partnership with the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School Public Health, are one of the 10 grant recipients of the Minority Health Advancing Community-Driven Approaches to Tackling Structural Racism in Public Health initiative. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USOPH…

The San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative (COI) San Diego County COI together with its partners and community leaders, came together to celebrate the formation of a new Community-Led Council. ow.ly/Ji9A50LHqNK #SDCounty #COI #CommunityCouncil #ChildhoodObesityInitiative