Assistant Director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters
Assistant Director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health
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Kimberly Shoaf
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FROM Kimberly Shoaf
Which Way, L.A.?
Can Southern California Learn from Katrina? The anniversary of somebody else's catastrophe is a good time to review the prospects of a catastrophe here at home. Geologists say it's only a question of when, not if, a massive earthquake will strike the Southland. Kimberly Shoaf is Assistant Director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters .
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