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Increasing numbers of Californians worry about paying their housing costs and consequently have run up credit card debt, taken on additional work to make ends meet and stopped saving for retirement, according to 2024 data released today by UCLA’s California Health…
New research warns that the failure to build resilience within primary health care (PHC) in Latin America and the Caribbean could lead to significant preventable losses in both lives and long-term economic development and have tremendous impacts across the Western…
Transgender and bisexual adults in California are more likely than other LGBT adults to report serious thoughts of suicide and moderate or serious psychological distress, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR).
LGBT adults…
For the first time in history, one out of every five people in the U.S. are Latino, according to a new data analysis by the Latino GDP Project from UCLA and California Lutheran University.
Using 2024 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which was released in June,…
College students’ reports of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts have continued to move in a positive direction, the third year in a row of such improvements since 2022, researchers have found.
The 2024-2025 Healthy Minds Study, conducted annually by…
UCLA Executive MPH (EMPH) INFO SESSION: Wednesday, November 5, 5pm PT | Reserve your spot: https://www.exechpm.ucla.edu/event/emph-info-session-wednesday-november-5-2025/Now more than ever, strong leadership is needed in public health policy. With public health programs…
UCLA Executive MPH (EMPH) INFO SESSION: Wednesday, November 5, 5pm PT | Reserve your spot: https://www.exechpm.ucla.edu/event/emph-info-session-wednesday-december-3-2025/ Now more than ever, strong leadership is needed in public health policy. With public health…
UCLA Executive MPH (EMPH) INFO SESSION: Wednesday, October 8, 5pm PT | Reserve your spot: https://www.exechpm.ucla.edu/event/emph-info-session-wednesday-october-8-2025/ Now more than ever, strong leadership is needed in public health policy. With public health…
The UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed new leadership to several of its programs, bringing together a team of experts poised to advance cancer discoveries, education and patient care. These leaders will guide key research initiatives, mentor…
UCLA and UC Davis will co-lead a newly funded, multi-institutional clinical trial to evaluate whether artificial intelligence (AI) can help support radiologists in interpreting mammograms more accurately, with the goal of improving breast cancer screening and reducing…
The daughter of San Joaquin Valley farmworkers has earned the opportunity to study alongside a nationally prominent UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researcher to improve the health of California’s agricultural laborers.
Dr. Fabiola Perez-Lua, who received…
Inside Higher Ed interviewed Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, about the 2024-2025 Healthy Minds Survey.
College students continue to report poor mental health, with more than one in three…
Dr. Naomi Zewde, assistant professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by U.S. News & World Report about the importance of health insurance.
"Unlike, say, bananas, you have no idea how much health care…
KPCC-FM (NPR) interviewed Dr. Michael Jerrett, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, about research he has led that found that women who were pregnant at the time of the 2015-16 leak had babies with low birth weights at…
As an early-career physician specializing in gastroenterology more than a decade ago, Dr. Folasade (Fola) May found herself fascinated by colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. among men and women combined.
“This is a…
The MPH|HP program invites prospective students to join our Informational Q&A Sessions. Visit our website and review the informational videos at: https://www.mphhp.ph.ucla.edu/information-session. Then complete the form to RSVP. During these sessions, you will have…
The MPH|HP program invites prospective students to join our Informational Q&A Sessions. Visit our website and review the informational videos at: https://www.mphhp.ph.ucla.edu/information-session. Then complete the form to RSVP. During these sessions, you will have…
The MPH|HP program invites prospective students to join our Informational Q&A Sessions. Visit our website and review the informational videos at: https://www.mphhp.ph.ucla.edu/information-session. Then complete the form to RSVP. During these sessions, you will have…
What percentage of Californians …
Experienced or witnessed a hate incident? Said their physical or mental health was harmed by wildfires and wildfire smoke? Had difficulties paying for their own or a household member’s medical bills? Could not afford enough food?…
Join the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health to learn more about the MPH and MS in Epidemiology. You will have an opportunity to hear from admissions and program staff and students and have a chance to get your questions answered.