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Articles by Elisa Long
Nursing home staff networks and COVID-19
Significance Nursing homes account for 40% of US COVID-related fatalities as of August 31, highlighting the urgent need to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes in these facilities. Our large-scale analysis of smartphone location data reports half a million individuals entering a nursing home following the March 13 federal ban on visitors. With 5.1% of these individuals entering two or more facilities, a nursing home snapshot network emerges.
Political storms: Emergent partisan skepticism of hurricane risks
Abstract Mistrust of scientific evidence and government-issued guidelines is increasingly correlated with political affiliation. Survey evidence has documented skepticism in a diverse set of issues including climate change, vaccine hesitancy, and, most recently, COVID-19 risks. Less well understood is whether these beliefs alter high-stakes behavior.
Communicating Risks of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Getting Beyond the Laundry List
Eden R. Brauer, PhD, MSN1; Elisa F. Long, PhD2; Joy Melnikow, MD3; Peter M. Ravdin, MD, PhD4; and Patricia A. Ganz, MD56 Show More 1UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 2UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, CA 3UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, Davis, CA 4University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, TX 5UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 6UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
When Ebola Strikes, Where Should Help Go?
In 2014, the first signs that an especially deadly Ebola epidemic might be brewing came on March 22, with reports of 49 cases in Guinea. By the end of August, the disease had spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia, bringing the total of likely, confirmed and suspected cases in West Africa to 3,685.
BRCA Mutation: New Model Quantifies How Surgeries Reduce Cancer
In an interview, Long says her own decision for bilateral mastectomy was fairly straightforward; her gene mutation was discovered shortly after a diagnosis of triple-negative breast cancer. But as a young woman who hoped to one day become a mother, she wanted to keep her reproductive organs as long as possible. How many years would be too long? Long wanted data.
Elisa Long: How statistics guided me through life, death and 'The Price is Right'
Elisa Long, an assistant professor of operations management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and an expert in probability and statistics, teaches a data and decisions course in Anderson’s full-time MBA program. Her goal, she said, is to distill for students the most relevant information for their business objectives, to “connect the dots” so that they can use statistics and probability directly to solve problems or enhance their work.
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