The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson has named Dr. Monica Kraft the new contact principal investigator for the University of Arizona-Banner Health All of Us Research Program. Kraft will be responsible for leading the program’s efforts to ensure diverse populations are well represented in the national All of Us database.

A discussion about current trends with Dr. Joe Gerald, a member of the University of Arizona COVID-19 modeling team and an associate professor of public health policy and management at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

For 15 years, the Student Aid for Field Epidemiology Response (SAFER) program at the UArizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has trained students to investigate public health crises. Team members used to track local outbreaks of foodborne illnesses and monitor flu cases. Now they’re tackling a pandemic that has killed 1.5 million people across the globe. Epidemiologist Erika Austhof and program coordinators Kylie Boyd and Alexandra Shilen are interviewed.

Young women who regularly visit tanning salons may have an increased risk of developing endometriosis, a new study suggests. The lead author Leslie Farland, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Public Health, Tucson, said their curiosity was based on two past findings: Women with endometriosis may have a higher risk of melanoma skin cancer than other women do. And endometriosis seems to be more common among women with "sun-sensitive" skin, which burns easily and tends to freckle.

UArizona Health Sciences researchers have created a five-module chimeric antigen receptor T cell that is showing early potential to fight Type 1 diabetes.

University of Arizona Health Sciences immunobiologists have created a chimeric antigen receptor T cell that is showing early potential to fight Type 1 diabetes.

Experts from the COVID-19 modeling team at the University of Arizona are calling for a shelter-in-place order, mask mandate and emergency economic relief measures statewide as coronavirus metrics increase to alarming levels. Dr. Joe Gerald, a professor at University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, who creates weekly coronavirus epidemiology reports based on ADHS data, also called for further COVID-19 mitigation tactics as his latest report shows an alarming spread of the virus throughout the state.

Dr. Taylor Riall, a professor and surgical oncologist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, executive leadership coach, and leader of clinical discipline and surgery oncology at the Arizona Cancer Center, talked about physician burnout in her keynote presentation at the 2020 Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Virtual Meeting.

A new study has found that a novel T cell genetically engineered by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers is able to target and attack pathogenic T cells that cause Type 1 diabetes, which could lead to new immunotherapy treatments.