Check out the new FSPH filtered water station! Fielding School students spearheaded a campaign for an environmentally-conscious water fountain as a way to promote the benefits of drinking water while helping eliminate waste generated by plastic bottles.

Taking up…

In a groundbreaking new study, UCLA researchers have discovered that children of melanoma survivors are not adhering optimally to sun protection recommendations. This is concerning as sunburns are a major risk factor for melanoma, and children of survivors are at…

Why do some people develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while others who suffered the same ordeal do not? A new UCLA discovery may shed light on the answer.

UCLA scientists have linked two genes to the debilitating mental disorder, suggesting that…

Fielding School Dean Emerita Linda Rosenstock has been selected as an International Scholar by the Open Society Foundation. As part of her commitment to this role, she ventured in November to An-Najah National University in Nablus, West Bank, where she visited with…

At this year's American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, a presentation by Fielding School doctoral candidate Tyler D. Watson (MPH '13) and Ryan Babadi (MPH '14), a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, was identified…

Twenty-five years ago this month, the countries that compose the United Nations reached a landmark agreement that laid the foundation for much-needed strengthening of children’s rights and protections in nearly every country around the world.

Today, the Convention…

Less than two years after UCLA launched its groundbreaking Healthy Campus Initiative, a prominent organization is introducing a national health and wellness program for colleges and universities.

The Partnership for a Healthier America, which works…

Asthma may be more harmful than was previously thought, according to UCLA researchers who found that genetic damage is present in circulating, or peripheral, blood. Doctors previously thought that the genetic damage it caused was limited to the lungs.

In the study…

The Fielding School launched a new school-wide Alumni-Student Mentorship Program, which pairs graduate students across all departments -- Biostatistics, Community Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Health…

UCLA will play a leading role for a major five-year, multi-institution initiative to boost the diversity of the nation’s biomedical workforce.

The NIH announced Oct. 22 that it has awarded nearly $31 million in fiscal year 2014 to develop new approaches to engage…

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced today that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 will be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their work upholding girls’ right to education and ending child labor. The work of these two activists highlights the…

The Fogarty International Center, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, has announced plans to award grants to three HIV/AIDS prevention projects headed by faculty from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Dr. Roger Detels and Dr. Sung-…

A church. A city park. An office. These are not the typical settings for a medical checkup. But a new nationwide study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows that providing health services in unorthodox settings helps…

In April, California Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order asking residents to reduce their water consumption by 20 percent. That hasn’t happened. Since then, the state’s dry conditions have worsened, with more than 80 percent of California now in an extreme drought…

It's no secret that poverty is bad for your health. Now a new UCLA study demonstrates that California diabetics who live in low-income neighborhoods are up to 10 times more likely to lose a toe, foot or leg than patients residing in more affluent areas of the state…

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research recently released easy-to-read infographics with health statistics on five major ethnic and racial groups in California — whites, Latinos, blacks, Asians and American Indians/Alaska Natives. One-page "Health…

Can the place where a woman is born and raised be a risk factor for autism in her child? According to new research out of UCLA, the answer is yes. 

In the U.S., the prevalence of autism has been reported to be highest among non-Hispanic…

A working group evaluating sexual orientation-related disorders listed in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a publication of the World Health Organization (WHO), has recommended the disorders be deleted, a move that will make getting…

Gay men who use phone dating apps to find a sexual partner carry a higher risk of getting common sexually transmitted infections than meeting online or in bars and clubs, suggests research published online in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.

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People who are HIV-positive but begin care immediately can live long and stable lives; however, many do not. Among HIV-positive persons, blacks, Latinos and people 50 and older have disproportionately high rates of HIV/AIDS, and also die at disproportionately high rates…