Lori S. Richardson Pelliccioni is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, where she teaches health law. Her research centers on healthcare fraud, abuse in Medicare, and…

Jonathan Freedman is Senior Vice President at Health Management Associates, a national independent consulting and research firm. Mr. Freedman works with plans, providers, associations, and governmental entities in the areas of public health, safety net healthcare…

Dr. Ming Tai-Seale is Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Family Medicine and a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She also serves as the Director of Outcomes Analysis and…

Dr. Yue Rong is the Environmental Program Manager at the California Environmental Protection Agency, Los Angeles Water Quality Control Board for groundwater quality protection. He has been working in this capacity for more than 35 years with the regulatory agency…

Ozzie Martinez serves as the Chief Administrative Officer of Kaiser Permanente South Bay, where he oversees the strategy, operations, and performance of a large and diverse healthcare organization. He is a seasoned healthcare leader and innovator with over 25…

Smriti currently serves as Managing Director, Healthcare at Accenture. She has a strong background in robotics and public health and is passionate about making healthcare more efficient, affordable, and accessible, as she specializes in creating high impact…

Dr. Patience Afulani is an Associate Professor in the Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences and Epidemiology & Biostatistics departments at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her primary research centers on the social and health…

Dr. Ritu Sadana is a global leader in public health who has shaped the World Health Organization’s (WHO) strategies on ageing, equity and the life course. She currently leads WHO’s efforts to align services and systems to optimize health and well-being at every…

Dr. Manuel Roberto Calderón Pinzón is a visionary physician, public health leader, and global development strategist with over 30 years of service across more than 20 countries. He has held executive roles including Vice Minister of Public Health in Guatemala,…

Dr. Rimoin is a Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health. Dr. Rimoin is the Director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health and is an…

Dr. Cozzette Lyons-Jones is an Ann G. Quealy Memorial Fellowship awardee, Delta Omega Honor Society member, FSPH guest lecturer, and Paul Torrens Forum panelist, with over two decades dedicated to transforming care in underserved communities. 

She…

Dr. Na He is currently a Professor of Epidemiology and the Dean of School of Public Health, Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Dr. He has extensive research and implementation experience in HIV epidemiology, prevention and intervention and has served as a…

Mary Anne Foo is the Executive Director and Founder of the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA), established in 1997. OCAPICA is the largest Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander nonprofit organization in Orange…

Dr. Carol Mangione, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by NPR about the work of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which has convened voluntary, independent medical experts to review evidence and make…

CalMatters interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante on the potential impact of federal decisions on health insurance funding, including the reality that when fewer young people enroll in coverage, premiums tend to go up for everyone.

“Then sick…

Latino neighborhoods in California are twice as likely to experience poor air quality — and twice as many asthma-related emergency room visits — compared with non-Latino white neighborhoods. These stark disparities are not new, but researchers at the Latino Policy and…

Off-label prescribing — when FDA-approved medications are used to treat conditions that they are not approved for — is widespread in the U.S. health care system. In fact, about 1 in 5 prescriptions written are for off-label use, most commonly when…

Dr. David Eisenman, professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Community Health Sciences, was interviewed by NPR on how medications can affect the way people's bodies react to, or perceive, heat.

"When you're taking these medications…

Dr. Naomi Zewde, assistant professor in the UCLA Fielding School Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by NPR about her research into the potential impact of so-called "baby bonds."

“Wealth is the kind of thing where when you need to dip into…

Study design, data analysis, visualization, statistical computing and modeling. The software R — a scientific standard for more than three decades that is widely available as free, open-source software — is a programming language that can make all of these possible.…