The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Hall of Fame was established in 2002 to honor alums with outstanding career accomplishments in public health, as well as those who have volunteered time and talent in their communities in support of public health…

A team of students from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Executive Master in Public Health (EMPH) program won first place in the Cornell University Sloan Program in Health Administration case competition, co-sponsored by SSM Health. The nationwide…

The FSPH stair climbing team's fundraising effort supports YMCA community youth and public health programs in and around downtown Los Angeles, including scholarships for swim lessons and afterschool care.

View photos of team FSPH at the 2015 YMCA Stair Climb for…

Low-income adults and children who are able to see a dentist at the same location as their primary care doctor are more likely to get dental care, yet almost three out of five community health clinics in California either don’t offer oral health services or, if they do,…

LOS ANGELES, CA—The Skirball Cultural Center announces A Path Appears: Actions for a Better World, an exhibition designed to spark a commitment to human rights and underscore the potential of grassroots action. Inspired by the recent bestseller A Path Appears:…

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Researchers led by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health examined HIV testing trends among adults ages 50 through 64 both before and after 2006, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that most…

From 2013 to 2014, the number of Californians ages 19 to 64 without health insurance declined by 15.5 percent — more than 655,000 people — after full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to new California Health Interview Survey data released…

Dr. Patrick Allard, FSPH assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, has received a 2015 Innovation in Regulatory Science Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, an independent private foundation dedicated to advancing the biomedical…

FROM THE UCLA KAISER PERMANENTE CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY:

"CDC Recommends Food Waste Protocol Developed by Equity Center Researcher"

"Equity Center researcher, Dr. Bill McCarthy was charged with evaluating the impact of new food policies at LAUSD…

Dr. Roshan Bastani, Fielding School professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, will be one of three panel members during the discussion, "Is Healthy Living Only for the…

The following excerpt is from a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) podcast interview with Dr. Michael Jerrett, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. The entire interview is available for download on the…

The Fielding School's 2015 National Public Health Week was featured in the July 2015 edition of the "The Nation's Health," an American Public Health Association (APHA) publication.

In April 2015, Students of Color for Public Health (…

Patrick Allard was awarded the 2015 International ToxScholar Grant, the second time he has received this honor from the Society of Toxicology.

Sudipto Banerjee was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics ; awarded a Distinguished…

The FSPH Center for Health Policy Research will present "The Environmental Factors Driving Rising Obesity in California," a lecture as part of an ongoing series led by health policy experts.

Past seminar topics include applications of the California Health…

A June 2015 report released by the Fielding School's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research was featured by UCLA Newsroom for finding that nearly one-quarter of California adults are obese as of 2011-12, up from 19.3 percent in 2001.

Dr. Joelle…

Published this month, Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer Survivors: Perspectives on Research Challenges and Opportunities features research underway or in development about women across various stages of treatment, from those suffering late-stage effects and…

UCLA's WORLD Policy Analysis Center launched a Father's Day-themed companion website with a unique line of e-greeting cards that highlight gender inequality experienced by fathers across the world.

Each greeting contains research-backed…

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports a link between exposure to green spaces at school and cognitive development in primary schoolchildren. Contact with nature is thought to play a crucial and irreplaceable role in…

For the past three years, the LAist newsroom's public affairs show "AirTalk" — which airs weekdays on 89.3 FM — has dedicated hundreds of on-air hours to COVID-19 coverage. One of the ways AirTalk has been able to deliver this information is through a powerhouse roster…