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Arturo Vargas Bustamante in ABC News: “Addressing vaccine fears as Latinos fall behind in COVID-19 vaccinations”

“It’s pretty much life or death if they are choosing not to vaccinate themselves because of myths,” said Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

UCLA LPPI STATEMENT ON AUG. 12 RELEASE OF 2020 CENSUS REDISTRICTING DATA

Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute issued the following statement in response to today’s release of the Census 2020 Redistricting Data: “Today’s release of the Census 2020 Redistricting Data makes it very clear that it’s time for new political boundaries that allow communities to elect representatives that look like…

Eric Avila in Los Angeles Daily News: “Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Aug. 12-19”

The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents a talk by Eric Avila, a professor of history and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, 4-5 p.m. Aug. 19. The talk is based on Avila’s 2014 book of the same name. Register in advance for the online talk here: bit.ly/3lT6X7J. Find more lectures from the Fowler Museum here: fowler.ucla.edu/events/

LPPI in Yahoo News!: “Campaign arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus jumping in Southwest redistricting fights”

An analysis of precincts by the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico showed that President Biden won U.S. Latino voters by a 3-to-1 margin in the race against former President Trump.

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista in Radio Biligüe: “The language of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine. Also, Biden’s Plan on Clean Cars.”

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA questions the use of current racial and ethnic categories to measure human similarities and differences; at a time when the number of mestizo or mixed-race people is increasing rapidly, many find it hard to fit into the US official Racial-Ethnic

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