California’s Whole Person Care pilot program, launched in 2016 to address the multiple health needs of some of the state’s highest-risk Medi-Cal patients, helped improve coordination of care and reduced Medi-Cal costs, according to a report published today by…

Long COVID patients can experience many of the same lingering negative effects on their physical, mental, and social well-being as those experienced by people who become ill with other, non-COVID illnesses, new research suggests.

The findings, published …

The UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS) and the UCLA-Charles R. Drew University Center for AIDS Research (UCLA-CDU CFAR) have received $3 million in awards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop HIV…

A UCLA-led study provides the first scientific evidence that brick and mortar pharmacies in Northern Mexican tourist towns are selling counterfeit pills containing fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine. These pills are sold mainly to US tourists, and are often passed off…

Breast cancer risk estimates for individual women vary substantially depending on which risk assessment model is used, and women are likely receiving vastly different recommendations depending on the model used and the cutoff applied to define "high risk," according to a…

Less than two months into the new year, there have already been more than 60 mass shootings in the United States and 5,103 people killed by gun violence, including the January shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay.

These statistics were among…

About the Modelers and Storytellers Transdisciplinary Training 

In public health, there has been increased interest in using community-engaged approaches to develop “multilevel interventions.” Evaluating the impact of such interventions is challenging because it is…

Departments: Community Health Sciences

Inductee

Dr. Goleen Samari is a public health demographer and an assistant professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She serves as faculty in the Heilbrunn…

Sander Greenland Sander Greenland

Class of: 1976

Departments: Epidemiology

Lester Breslow Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Sander Greenland is Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics at the UCLA Fielding School. He is a leading…

Lester Breslow Lifetime Achievement Award

For more than 50 years, Dr. Ludlow B. Creary has worked to improve the healthcare of minority residents throughout Greater Los Angeles. He helped to spearhead the opening of the historic West…

Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Named FSPH’s 2019 Commencement Speaker

BERNARD J. TYSON, CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF KAISER PERMANENTE, will deliver the keynote address at the Fielding School’s commencement ceremony June 14 in UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Tyson leads Kaiser…

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Alumni Hall of Fame was established in 2002 to honor alumni 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…

AS A DOCTORAL STUDENT in the Fielding School’s Department of Community Health Sciences, Nelida Duran (PhD ’15) spent months at a time living with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation in the Northwest Territories of Canada. There, in a remote region bordering…

WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE WARNED ABOUT FOR DECADES is now unfolding for all to see, on a global scale — extreme heat, severe droughts, intense storms, rising sea levels, and an expanding geographic range for vectors that spread deadly infectious diseases such as malaria…