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Join UCLA Fielding for a discussion with the senior director of admissions and financial aid to learn more about the school's graduate-level academic programs (MPH, MS and PhD only) and the application process.
Dr. Yoshira “Yoshi” Ornelas Van Horne is an exposure scientist and environmental justice scholar. She is the assistant director of Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Fellowship, which trains early career scientists in science communications. She currently serves…
DUARTE, Calif. (AP) — Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, she said.
Now, as crews clean charred remains from the Los Angeles wildfires, she worries about a new potential source…
Join us for our in-person weekend on Thursday, April 3rd and Friday, April 4th on UCLA's campus to meet our faculty, current students, staff and other admitted students!
In an unprecedented collective scientific effort to understand the short- and long-term health impacts of wildfires, researchers from four universities have launched a 10-year study of the Los Angeles fires. The wildfires that began in early January 2025 killed 29 people…
Healthcare In The Trump Administration: What They Plan, What To Look For Wednesday, January 29, 2025 from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (PDT) Networking and Light Refreshments at 5:30 p.m. Program at 6:00 p.m. Tamkin Auditorium (MAP) Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical…
Mental health responders are using a strategy to help fire victims called Psychological First Aid — often compared to CPR for mental health. Its initial step is finding what a person needs right now.
Dr. David Eisenman, professor of community health sciences and…
The key ingredient in the fire retardant is ammonium phosphate, which is commonly found in fertilizer.
"Dr. Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, said the…
Welcome to the 2025 Commencement Page
The 2025 UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Commencement Ceremony will take place on Friday, June 13, at 5:30pm PT in Royce Hall. Please join us via live stream at 5:30pm PT to view the ceremony on the school's YouTube page.
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WATCH THE WEBINAR ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANEL Join the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health for a webinar addressing the "L.A. Fires & Public Health: Where We Go From Here" on Tuesday, January 28, from 12:00pm – 1:15pm PT, via Zoom.
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Survivors of wildfires like those burning across Los Angeles can experience mental health issues long after a blaze is out.
Dr. David Eisenman, professor of community health sciences and director of the Center for Public Health and Disasters at the UCLA Fielding…
Dr. Anne Rimoin -- Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health -- addressed growing concerns surrounding the transmission of H5N1 bird flu with KTLA. The CDC…
Aliso Canyon Disaster Health Research Study
The Aliso Canyon Health Study is led by a team of prominent and established researchers at UCLA with the expertise needed to answer questions about the disaster.
The…
Dr. Yifang Zhu, professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, spoke with the New York Times on December 10 to address how, "widespread adoption of heat pumps could prevent thousands of premature deaths and save billions on…
"Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are racing to try to identify the cause of a mysterious, flu-like illness that has sickened 376 people and left 79 dead in that country."
NBC News spoke with Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor of epidemiology…
NPR Los Angeles addressed some of what the future of public health might look like in an age of growing mistrust of science. UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences Dr. Robert Kim-Farley spoke with host Larry…
Join the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health for the 50th Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, April 23, from 12 pm – 1 pm PT, via Zoom. The event will be hosted by the dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Dr. Ron Brookmeyer …
These scholars, cited most often by others in their fields, are ‘driving innovation and addressing wider societal challenges to help transform our world’
Four UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty members have been named among the world’s most influential…
Data from the new California Health Interview Survey, from the Fielding School's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, show associations between gambling and a risk of poor health outcomes as well as mental health problems.
About 1 in 4 California…