In simple terms, CSUN alumnus Raul Figueroa-Valenzuela describes himself as a disease detective. Figueroa-Valenzuela M.P.H. ’18 (Public Health-Applied Epidemiology) is an epidemiology analyst for the LA County Department of Public Health. Beginning in January, with reports of growing cases of a novel coronavirus out of Wuhan, China, Figueroa-Valenzuela and a team of epidemiologists began to track people down who had traveled from the virus hotspots abroad into LA County, tell them to quarantine, and follow their progress. Read more about the Disease Detective
