The new center will explore critical issues in the management of healthcare organizations, while improving the state of knowledge and practice.The center is made possible by the Sinaiko Innovation Fund for Healthcare Management, a $1 million gift from Richard Sinaiko (MPH ’77), Patricia Sinaiko and Greg Sinaiko (MPH ’01).
Department of Health Policy and Management Professor Frederick Zimmerman and Nathaniel Anderson, a PhD student in the department, authored a study published in JAMA Network Open about the trends in health equity in the U.S. between 1993 and 2017.
Research from Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, assistant professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, reported at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2019 in Los Angeles identified the role of work-family demands in women's later-life cognitive health.
The Washington Post covered a study led by Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, assistant professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, reporting that participation in the paid labor force may help prevent late-life memory decline among women in the United States.
Steven Wallace, a professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and associate director of the Fielding School’s Center for Health Policy Research, was interviewed by NPR about health insurance for undocumented immigrants.
The Associated Press referenced a study by Michael Jerrett, professor and chair of the Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, and Diane A. Garcia-Gonzales, a postdoctoral scholar at the Fielding School, in an article about an investigation by California regulators to consider penalties against a gas company that experienced a blowout in 2015 at their Aliso Canyon gas well.
FSPH places a high value on hands on experience, on learning outside the classroom and developing practical skills, something I was specifically looking for in a program.
Veronica Viceñas, MPH Candidate, Health Policy and Management
