Eva Harris

When the pandemic hit, UC Berkeley researchers rose in legions to respond to the crisis by studying the virus and its impacts in their areas of expertise.

The preliminary results of a UC Berkeley study measuring the spread of COVID-19 among East Bay inhabitants were released Tuesday and showed low rates of COVID-19 positivity among participants over the summer.

Professors nationwide participated in the two-day Scholar Strike, which began Tuesday and was established to promote awareness in higher education about racial violence and inequality in the United States.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, or NIAID, granted nearly $8 million to UC Berkeley School of Public Health researchers Eva Harris and Josefina Coloma to study mosquito-borne viruses and pandemic preparedness in Asia and the Americas.

Researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health will conduct a study to better understand the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the Bay Area and its effect on social distancing strategies.

UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health hosted a virtual town hall Monday to discuss emerging research driving solutions to the coronavirus pandemic.

A study led by UC Berkeley researchers in Nicaragua found support for the decades-old hypothesis of antibody-dependent enhancement, or ADE, in dengue disease.

Campus researchers and Humabs BioMed, a private antibody therapeutics biotechnology company, have created a new test that helps differentiate Zika virus infections from infections of similar viruses.

Campus researchers have identified a key molecule responsible for the pathogenesis of severe cases of dengue virus infections.