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Many UCSF School of Nursing students and faculty are helping out in the community through their work at the UCSF COVID-19 call center. Ericka Ledesma, a 2nd year student in COEH's OEHN Nurse Practitioner program, is one of those participating at the call center. Below, she takes a moment to share her thoughts on her experience. More on this call...

Anthropometry is the systematic measurement of the physical properties of the human body.

Measurements like eye height, the distance from the floor to a person’s eyes, can be taken sitting or standing. Other measurements include elbow height, hip breadth, overall stature, knuckle height, and popliteal height, or the distance from the floor to the back of the knee.

These measurements play an important role in the design of architecture, furniture, tools, cars, clothes and more to fit the human body. For example, the height and width of a...

Alejandra was awarded a grant from The Workers Lab for her project Building a Strategic Partnership for OSH Enforcement. The project will connect worker organizations focused on immigrants, low-wage workers, undocumented workers, and people of color who are exposed to health hazards with Cal/OSHA, California’s worker protection enforcement agency.

According to Alejandra, “Too many employers have violated health and safety laws with impunity. This project will test an innovative model that builds worker capacity, voice, and power to make...

Dr. Helen Chu, an infectious disease expert at the University of Washington, and her team began the Seattle Flu Study (SFS) in 2018. According to Dr. Chu, “The objective of the Seattle Flu Study was to develop a pandemic surveillance platform that could be used to identify new pathogens and develop strategies for rapid containment of spread, before the months to years it would take for a vaccine to be developed.”

When COVID-19 concerns began circulating in the US, the SFS team...