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Wael Abd-Almageed
Doing research to combat misinformation and public anxiety on social networks. This is part of their efforts for the last four years on media forensics funded by DARPA.
Stephen Aguilar
Teachers Use of Technology and Social Media in Response to COVID-19: An Experience Sampling Study
Eric Anicich
Trevor Foulk
Merrick Osborne
Jake Gale
Michael Schaerer
Surveyed employees at the onset of COVID-19 and found they initially experienced increased levels of powerlessness and decreased levels of authenticity, but that over time employees recovered their sense of autonomy in the form of decreased powerlessness and increased authenticity.
Maria P. Aranda
Rosalba Cain
Examining the knowledge, practices and attitudes towards COVID-19 among monolingual Spanish-speaking, Latino immigrants living in Los Angeles County.
David Armstrong
All Feet on Deck: Keeping patients with limb threatening diabetic complications safely at home using mHealth and Telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic
Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes
William Resh
Christine Beckman
Studying the emotional toll of COVID-19 on local government employees on the front lines of managing the COVID-19 public health response.
David Belson
Shinyi Wu
Determining the impact of Covid-19 on the operation of rural California hospital clinics by a survey of Critical Access Hospitals for the California Hospital Association.
Daniel Bennett
Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Market, Social, and Mental Health Outcomes.
Devon Brooks
Enhancing Healthcare Professional Competence and Responsiveness to Culturally-Diverse and Vulnerable Populations During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jeremy Burke
The Immediate Impacts of Coronavirus on American’s Economic Security
Kayla de la Haye
Wandi Bruine de Bruin
Tracking COVID-19 Impacts on Food Access, Diet, and Hunger via the Understanding America Survey.
Matt Delventhal
Eunjee Kwon
Andrii Parkhomenko
Studying how a long-term shift toward working from home could change the spatial and economic structure of our cities. Link to the paper.
Genevieve Dunton
Shirlene Wang
Bridgette Do
Amy Nguyen
Studying the effects of the COVID-19 on physical activity and mental health in US adults with online and smartphone-based surveys. Link to papers here and here.
Bruce Elliot
Trevor Lane
Jason Solema
A study of essential workers and their motivation to stay on the frontlines of COVID-19.
Laura Ferguson
COVID-19 and the Continuity of Health Services in Kenya: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of the Potential Role of Self-Care Interventions and Community Health Workers
Emilio Ferrara
Tracking COVID-19 on online platforms to study complex communication phenomena including misinformation, fear, and social dynamics. Also tracking the implications of the outbreak on the 2020 US Presidential election.
Carolin Fleischmann
Peter Cardon
Jolanta Aritz
Researching the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on global virtual team collaboration.
Ali Gholamrezanezhad
Aidin Abedi
Bhushan Desai
Catherine Song
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 on radiologists working in various settings.
Ali Gholamrezanezhad
Bhushan Desai
Aidin Abedi
Anjali Doshi
Veronica Frank
Catherine Song
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 on medical students in the US and Europe.
Ali Gholamrezanezhad
Sana Salehi
Sravanthi Reddy
Aidin Abedi
Jung Hwan Um
Working on identifying the CT characteristics of viral pneumonia and defining the disease progression or clinical improvement.
Yijia Guo
Examining Chinese practitioners’ communication and identity challenges in long-distance work during the quarantine time in Coronavirus.
Yijia Guo
Investigating how corporate executive communication frames Coronavirus and how their communication impacts employees’ organizational identity.
Assal Habibi
Jonas Kaplan
Sarah Hennessy
Matt Sachs
Interested in understanding how music can help alleviate mood and help emotion regulation during the self-isolation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more here.
Daniel Hackman
Ferol Mennen
Joshua Millstein
Daniel Weisenberger
Vulnerability to the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of child maltreatment and DNA methylation
John Heidemann
Xiao Song
Yuri Pradkin
Using Internet scanning data to evaluate how Internet use is changing as millions study and work-from-home in response to COVID-19.
Benjamin Henwood
Comparative Effectiveness of Single-Site and Scattered-Site Permanent Supportive Housing on Patient-Centered and COVID-19 Related Outcomes for People Experiencing Homelessness. Learn more here.
Michael Hochman
COVID-19 – Independent Medical Education Grant
Adrian Huerta
COVID-19 Rapid Response to Men of Color programs.
Jill Johnston
Considering COVID-19 in an Urban Environmental Justice Community Cohort: Impacts, Reslience and Stressors.
Gabriel Kahn
George Constantinou
Jiao Sun
Collecting data with Crosstown (xtown.la) on everything from crime patterns to traffic and air quality to tell journalistic stories about how Los Angeles is adapting during the shutdown.
Elsi Kaiser
Jennifer Unger
Effects of psycholinguistic variations on persuasiveness of COVID-19 health messages.
Irene Kang
COVID-19: Home blood draws for metastatic breast cancer patients on oral therapies.
Arie Kapteyn
Jill Darling
Tania Gutsche
Kyla Thomas
The Understanding Coronavirus in America project has been tracking the effects of the pandemic since March 10 in the form of about 3000 daily updated graphs; longitudinal microdata on about 7000 nationally representative respondents are available for free download; one can also add questions to the bi-weekly surveys.
Michael Kasperkiewicz
Evaluation of patients with autoimmune bullous diseases for symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19
Vsevolod Katritch
Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Induced Pulmonary Distress by Stimulating the Protective Arm of Angiotensin System
Ian Kim
Thomas W. Valente
COVID-19 Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks
Andrea Kovacs
Olivier Pernet
Toni Frederick
Eva Operskalski
Allison Bearden
Lashonda Spender
James Homans
Mikhaela Cielo
Alice Stek
Evaluating viral dynamics, immunologic and host risk and protective factors, transmission characteristics within family groups and social networks, impact on socioeconomic factors, and stress and stigma related impacts among Natural History Study of HIV infected women and their families at the MCA Clinic.
Jinkook Lee
Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia (DAD) for Longitudinal Aging Study in India: Administrative Supplement to survey on COVID-19.
May Lee
Compassionate Care in COVID-19.
Michelle Levander
2020 Facebook Journalism Project COVID-19.
Yan Liu
Misinformation detection on social media; Monitor and forecast COVID-19 spread.
Wendy Mack
Preventing Child Maltreatment During COVID-19 Using On-line Evidence-based Parenting Interventions
Anuja Majmundar
Jon-Patrick Allem
Tess Boley Cruz
Jennifer B. Unger
Misinformation at the intersection of COVID-19 and vaping on social media.
Gayla Margolin
Leveraging biobehavioral sensing and ecological momentary assessment to assess the wellbeing of medical residents during the COVID-19 crisis
Sarah Mawhorter
Meagan Ehlenz
Studying the timing and process of university residence hall closures in response to COVID-19.
Daniella Meeker
Rapid Response Data for Discoveries: COVID-19 Clinical data Collection to Promote Better Outcomes
Daniella Meeker
The Role of Telehealth in COVID-19 Response
Daniella Meeker
Novel, High-Impact Studies Evaluating Health System and Healthcare Professional Responsiveness to COVID-19
Najmedin Meshkati
Systematic Analysis of Digital Healthcare Impact on Patient Safety in the COVID-19 Era
Jelena Mirkovic
Conducting research, with University of Oregon and Colorado State University, on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home policies on network traffic.
Leonard Mitchell
COVID-19 Regional Recovery, Resiliency, and Stabilization
Dowell Myers
Social Distancing in Overcrowded Housing, Dense Neighborhoods and Transit Use: Vulnerability to Coronavirus in Los Angeles
Shrikanth Narayanan
Kristina Lerman
Emilio Ferrara
Gayla Margolin
Eric Hsieh
The health and wellbeing of the health care professionals during the COVID-19 crisis: A multidisciplinary focus combining human-centric AI and biobehavioral sensing
Assad Oberai
Ali Gholamrezanezhad
Vinay Duddalwar
Steven Yong Cen
Bino Varghese
Bhushan Desai
Identifying radiomic and/or integrative (imaging, radiomic, clinical, lab) markers of prognosis and risk stratification in COVID 19 + patients.
Bonnie Olsen
Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program COVID
Lawrence Palinkas
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on TSOS and Trauma Center Providers.
Lawrence Palinkas
Research Project 1:Survey of State Child Mental Health Policymakers’ Response to COVID-19.
Manuel Pastor
Op Ed published on Medium, entitled, “Coping with the Crisis: Immigrant Families Face “el Coronavirus’ and the Broken System That Has Left Them So Vulnerable.”
Manuel Pastor
Roadmap to Recovery: Data, Analysis, and Policy to Inform Local Action to Address Los Angeles County’s Most Vulnerable Populations in Light of COVID-19.
Trenton Place
Lynda McGinnis
Ali Ahmady
Determine presence of COVID-19 in male and female reproductive tract and impact on fertility.
Adam Rose
Center of Excellence for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE): Coronavirus Impacts on US Economy
Lauren Salminen
William Gauderman
Paul Thompson
JC Chen
Determine the interactive role of environmental stressors (air pollution, psychosocial adversity, etc.) as premorbid predictors of infection and illness severity from COVID-19.
Stephen Sanko
Assessment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) event rates, bystander CPR, telecommunicator-assisted CPR, GIS mapping of pre-hospital arrest events and ecology of social support in areas of high risk for OHCA.
Darby Saxbe
Launched the USC Coronavirus, Health, Isolation, & Resilience in Pregnancy (CHIRP) to study stress and social support in currently-pregnant women and their partners.
Darby Saxbe
Prenatal Social Connection and Disruption During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Maternal and Infant Health.
Stephanie Schwartz
Lama Mourad
How could the COVID-19 Crisis affect international asylum norms. Op-ed in Lawfare (complete) and academic article (ongoing).
Beth Smith
Judy Zhou
Reaching out to pregnant women and new moms interested in sharing their experiences related to COVID-19 through an online survey.
Sze-Chuan Suen
Using Road Traffic Data to Identify COVID-19 Priority Testing Locations in Southern California
Tianshu Sun
Studying the impact of COVID19 on omni-channel retailing, digital transformation of firms, economic recovery of small businesses, and online learning.
Prawit Thainiyom
Lauren Martinez
Paula Swinford
Oliver Tacto
Examining perceptions and behaviors of the college students on well-being, positive mental health, safety, emergency preparedness, and transition to online learning during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US.
Sarah Townsend
How Increased Online Learning in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic can Fuel Socioeconomic Inequality By Undermining Academic and Family Relationships
Dorian Traube
Focusing on how to use technology to support child development interventions. Now that all child development intervention is occurring remotely, our best practice guidelines are the basis for the national response to virtual home visitation.
Jennifer Unger
Wendy Mack
Surveying people who tested positive for COVID-19 after they recover to assess the effect of their diagnosis and/or illness on their mental health and identify resilience factors.
Jennifer Unger
COVID-related stress, resilience, and tobacco/cannabis use among Californians
Ajay Vaidya
Dapagliflozin in Respiratory Failure in Patients With COVID-19
Helga Van-Herle
Ajay Vaidya
Peter Xu
Jena Pizula
Audry Chi
A retrospective and prospective clinical records review of patients with COVID-19 to determine cardiovascular outcomes and risk factors through the Department of Cardiology at LAC+USC and Keck Medical Center.
Yongxiang Wang
Examine Chinese cities’ COVID-19 reopening plans as a window into governments’ economic and social priorities.
Jeff Watson
Running a collaborative design experiment challenging the public to imagine how teleconferencing software like Zoom can support social connection and well-being through play. More info here: zoomjam.org.
Dmitri Williams
RAPID: Natural experiments with online games: Support, impact and mitigation during the COVID-19 Pandemic