Dr. Susan Ettner was appointed UCLA interim dean of graduate education.

Dr. David Eisenman contributed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Science Framework.

Dr. Roger Detels was keynote speaker at the Countering COVID-19 video conference sponsored by the China Association for International Exchange of Personnel.

Dr. Catherine Crespi was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2019.

Dr. Thomas R. Belin delivered the Lowell Reed Lectureship for the Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association.

Dr. Anne L. Coleman was elected president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Anne L. Coleman received the Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award from the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health.

Dr. Thomas R. Belin received the Long-Term Excellence Award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association

Dr. Sudipto Banerjee received the 2019 George W. Snedecor Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.

Dr. Onyebuchi A. Arah received the 2019 Academic Council Chairs Award for Mid-Career Leadership in the Academic Senate from the UCLA Systemwide Academic Senate.

As California enters the hottest season of the year, residents and policy makers can tell at a glance how extreme heat harms a community’s health, down to the neighborhood level, with a new on-line tool developed by researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public…

“Veteran Journeys,” an award-winning opera written by Dr. Kenneth Wells, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine, that explores the struggles of…

An international team of researchers has confirmed that live animals sold at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market were the likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed 6.4 million lives since it began nearly three years ago.

“Rigorously combining all…

Dr. Jessica Gipson, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, has been appointed director of the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health (Bixby Center) and the Fred H. Bixby Chair in…

Dr. John Froines, professor emeritus in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences, died on July 13 from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

Dr. Froines was a visionary researcher in environmental…

One in six Americans – around 48 million people – will get sick from food poisoning this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

For some people, this manifests as a mild stomach ache that will keep you out of action for a day or two.…

The Los Angeles Blade and the City of West Hollywood presented a townhall meeting on Wednesday, July 27 to address the community’s concerns, impart information, and answer questions.

Moderator for the event was KTLA journalist John Fenoglio who was joined by the…

Not long after the World Health Organization and China released a report last year dismissing the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in a lab leak, scientists from major research institutions around the world noted the paucity of the published data, and…

'An infection anywhere can be an infection everywhere:' One virus hunter's warning on monkeypox.

CNN interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public…

More than 20 UCLA faculty and researchers have entered into a $2.6 million agreement to conduct research for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to help the city achieve its goal of producing all of its energy from carbon-free and renewable energy sources by…