Research published in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet Digital Health and co-led by a UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty member has found that two widely used types of blood pressure drugs are not tied to an increased risk of COVID-19 infection…

A team of 10 UCLA professors, including two UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty members, has earned a $956,000 award for a project that will combine their expertise in engineering, urban planning, public health and environmental law to address the…

Nadereh Pourat, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, is co-lead of a team receiving a $200,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study how California counties responded to COVID-19 under the Whole Person…

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has launched a new center to promote the health of sexual and gender minorities through research and partnerships with the LGBTQ community, community-based organizations, public health officials and policymakers in Los Angeles…

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s (CHPR) has released the August 2020 COVID-19 Preliminary Estimates, which includes pooled data from May through August for individual counties and small county groups. These,…

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is introducing an online Master of Healthcare Administration degree program in 2021. The degree will be the first of its type to be offered by a University of California campus. 

The new graduate degree will…

Research co-authored by University of California scientists has found that by 2050, as many as 24,500 affordable housing units in the United States are projected to be exposed to coastal flooding.

The estimate is triple the number of housing units at risk only 20…

Older people who undergo emergency surgeries on their operating surgeon’s birthday may be more likely to die within a month than patients who go through similar procedures on other days, a new UCLA-led study suggests.

The study, published this month in the…

A UCLA-led research team has found that behavioral interventions — mindfulness meditation and survivorship education classes — are effective in reducing depressive symptoms in younger breast cancer survivors, who often experience the highest levels of depression, stress…

A research team co-led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty has been awarded a $10 million contract to support the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s program to ensure vaccines are safe.

“Sound approaches to monitor vaccine safety and effectiveness…

Women should start getting every-other-year mammograms at age 40 instead of waiting until 50, according to a draft recommendation from a federal task force.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has long said women can choose to start breast cancer screening as…

Dr. Micah Johnson, assistant professor in the Department of Mental Health, Law & Policy at the University of South Florida, will discuss preliminary findings from a quantitative investigation of the mechanisms underlying potential racial/ethnic and sex differences in…

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Dean and Distinguished Professor Ron Brookmeyer served on the federal panel that reported this month on possible causes of illnesses among U.S. government personnel and their families in overseas postings.

The 76-…

In August, Kristen Choi, a UCLA assistant professor of public health and of nursing, thought about how important it would be to participate in the testing of one of the new COVID-19 vaccines. So she stepped out of her usual role of conducting research and…

UCLA researchers have found that during its first year, the coronavirus has ravaged Latino families and communities in California and other states far more seriously than it has non-Latino populations, with a consequent impact on the U.S. economy.

Latinos make up…

More than 1 in 4 adults in California report having poor oral health, but that figure rises to roughly 1 in 2 for the state’s lowest-income residents and drops to 1 in 5 for those with the highest incomes, according to a UCLA policy brief that looks at the role…

A team that includes UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers has found American children whose educations have been disrupted by the pandemic, even as little as 2-4 months, may face shortened life spans.

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, the…

Sudipto Banerjee, professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed…

A team of UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers has developed analyses to identify those most at risk from the pandemic, using demographic data to estimate test-based infection and test-based case fatality rates across California.

The research,…

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