DECADES OF RESEARCH ON DIETARY, BEHAVIORAL, and other environmental risk factors for breast cancer have yielded little in the way of concrete strategies for prevention, according to Karin Michels, PhD, professor and chair of the Fielding School’s Department of…

IN THE UNITED STATES, ABOUT ONE IN EIGHT women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. The diagnosis does not typically happen at a young age; most commonly, it is the result of acquired mutations in breast tissue over the life course, with the risk of…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity has awarded a five-year, $2.7 million grant to the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health to launch a training program that will inspire undergraduate students to pursue careers in…

CHINESE RESIDENTS ACCOUNT FOR 19.3% of the world’s population, yet 26.9% of all cancer-related deaths occur in China. This disparity leaves epidemiologists like Zuo-Feng Zhang, MD, PhD, associate dean for research at the UCLA Fielding School of Public…

Survivors of the first known Ebola outbreak, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, may be key to development of vaccines and therapeutic drugs to treat future outbreaks, according to a new study led by researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of…

About 15 million Americans will have either Alzheimer’s dementia or mild cognitive impairment by 2060, up from approximately 6.08 million this year, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

The findings highlight the…

The Fielding School announced the launch of its FSPH Public Data Portal, steeped in the knowledge that making data widely available is key to research transforming into sustainable impact and sound policy. 

The portal is already home to a variety of FSPH…

UCLA researcher Dr. Roshan Bastani will lead a $6.6 million research study awarded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to investigate the comparative effectiveness of strategies designed to increase receipt of the human papillomavirus (…

A fundamental shift in how cancer research is conducted and cancer care is provided in the United States is required in order to deliver on the US Cancer Moonshot initiative, according to a major new report published today in The Lancet Oncology.

UCLA…

More than one-third of the world’s countries do not have any laws prohibiting sexual harassment at work―leaving nearly 235 million working women without this important protection. Moreover, nearly 82 million working women live in 24 countries that do not have any…

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded $5 million to researchers at UCLA to develop a resource and data center for millions of pieces of research, lab samples, statistics and other data aimed at boosting research into the effects of substance abuse on HIV/AIDS…

New report says around 85 million children under five live in 32 countries that do not offer families two years of free pre-primary education; paid breastfeeding breaks for new mothers for the first six months; and adequate paid parental leave.

Only 15 countries…

Of the nearly 4 million women in the United States who have had either breast cancer or ovarian cancer, at least 1.5 million have a high risk of carrying certain types of genetic mutations that could increase their risk for additional cancers in the future.

And…

Community health centers, the leading providers of primary health care to the nation’s poor and uninsured populations, need strong partnerships and effective strategies to strengthen the current health care safety net, and to prepare for what may happen in the future,…

As of July 1, 2017 Dr. Patricia Ganz will assume editorial leadership of one of the oldest and most internationally respected oncology journals, JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 

Ganz is a professor of health policy and management in the…

The Fielding School of Public Health celebrated 235 graduating students at the UCLA FSPH Commencement Ceremony in Royce Hall. With more than one thousand family members, partners, friends, students, staff and faculty in attendance, degrees were conferred by Fielding…

The annual FSPH Student Honors and Awards Reception, hosted by Dean Jody Heymann, was held last night in celebration of our students’ remarkable accomplishments and their commitment to the mission that unites all of our students: improving the lives of people living in…

Delegates from China’s Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS), located in Beijing, visited the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health on Tuesday, May 30, to sign an official memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the school. The MOU is a symbol of…

The World Health Organization reported this month that pollution and environmental risks are responsible for 1.7 million child deaths per year. Around the world, pollution is constantly taking a toll on our health – and oz one pollution is especially problematic…