Kimberly Shoaf

Assistant Director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters

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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

Kimberly Shoaf on KCRW

The anniversary of somebody else's catastrophe is a good time to review the prospects of a catastrophe here at home.

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The anniversary of somebody else's catastrophe is a good time to review the prospects of a catastrophe here at home.

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