In the United States, approximately two-thirds of new HIV infections occur among Latino and African-American men who have sex with men. In addition, studies show that drug abuse is linked with poor adherence to HIV medication and prevention therapies.

In March…

Larson has had a profound impact on public health in the U.S. and globally through her leadership in building successful collaborations to increase access to high-quality…

Most teachers will tell you hot school days equal sluggish students, but a new study co-authored by R. Jisung Park, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and assistant professor of public policy at the UCLA…

During the past decade, researchers have identified new ways to detect the earliest biological signs of Alzheimer’s disease. These early signs, which are detected by biomarkers, may be present before a person starts to exhibit physical symptoms. What biomarker screening…

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, assistant professor of community health sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, recently received the Early Achievement Award from the Population Association of America.

The award recognizes contributions to…

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health will bestow Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl with its 8th annual Ruth Roemer Social Justice Leadership Award at a symposium taking place May 3rd at 6 pm at the UCLA Faculty Center. Kuehl is being recognized for…

Update as of June 17, 2018:

Since this press release was published, Delaware and New Jersey passed laws banning marriage for anyone under 18 without exceptions. In all other U.S. states, children under the age of 18 can be legally married under varying conditions…

Dr. David M. Carlisle, president and CEO of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, will speak about his work to eliminate health disparities at this year’s Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture, which the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health will host on…

Dr. Ninez Ponce, a UCLA professor and passionate advocate on behalf of evidence-based health policies that represent and serve the nation’s increasingly diverse population, has been appointed the new director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research at the Jonathan…

Elective hip and knee replacements may represent a significant source of potentially controllable healthcare spending, according to a March 13 Viewpoint article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and authored by…

Primary schoolchildren who have been raised in homes surrounded by more greenspace tend to present with larger volumes of white and grey matter in certain areas of the brain. Those anatomic differences are in turn associated with beneficial effects on cognitive function…

Adequate paid family and medical leave in the United States is necessary for the health and economic welfare of individuals and families. Adequate paid leave ensures workers are able to tend to a newborn baby with health benefits for both baby and parents, and the…

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 (…