Honor Roll 2017

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is pleased to honor our donors whose generosity strengthens our school and keeps us at the forefront of public health education, research and service. This Honor Roll gratefully acknowledges gifts and grants of $1…

“We need to effectively communicate the problems and conditions, but also the solutions to public health professionals, community-based organizations, community members and policymakers.” — Dr. Dawn Upchurch

AFTER SPENDING THE EARLY PART OF HER CAREER …

STUDENTS IN THE FIELDING SCHOOL-BASED Reproductive Health Interest Group (RHIG) are gaining hands-on experience in research and advocacy while addressing an important public health concern on the UCLA campus: support for students, staff and faculty who are…

“Knowing how to advocate will enable students to ensure that individuals whose voices most need to be heard are represented.” — Dr. Julie Elginer

JULIE ELGINER (DrPH ’11) was in the midst of a successful career as a marketing manager for a large…

RICHARD AMBROSE

Assessing the Effects of Sediment Augmentation on the Marsh Plain and Tidal Creeks at the Seal Beach Wetland Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service & Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association, $151,678 for two…

Ron Brookmeyer Named Interim Dean 

DR. RON BROOKMEYER, Fielding School of Public Health professor of biostatistics, began his service as interim dean of FSPH on November 1.

Brookmeyer, who joined UCLA in 2010 as a professor of biostatistics, uses the…

KATE CRESPI (MS ’91, PHD ’04) believes the most important quality for any academic in mentoring students is empathy. And as someone who trained in the Fielding School’s Department of Biostatistics before joining the department’s faculty, where she is now…

Negar Omidakhsh (PhD ’17) hadn’t yet turned 2 when her parents brought her and her older brother to Canada as refugees. They had fled Iran in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution — losing almost all of their money to smugglers in the process — so that…

WHILE WORKING AT THE BLACK AIDS INSTITUTE in Downtown Los Angeles, Rebekah Israel Cross heard from people who expressed a lack of interest in pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention despite being at greater risk of contracting HIV. Their…

OF THE 30 DEADLIEST MASS SHOOTINGS in the U.S. since 1949, the majority have occurred in the last decade. The horrific scenes are etched in our national psyche — from an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, a high school in Parkland, Florida, a church in…

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FOR THE TEACHERS IN THE LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT elementary school classrooms that participate in Generation Xchange (GenX), the middle-age and older adults who spend at least 10 hours a week providing academic assistance and support to struggling…

“One of the saddest things was just how many of these survivors did not believe their own experience was domestic violence.” — Dr. Chandra Ford

RECENT DATA ON INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE in the United States indicates that the risk is declining for women,…

NATIONALLY, CHINA’S EFFORT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES to reduce maternal mortality rates by promoting hospital deliveries has been highly successful. From 1990 to 2011, maternal mortality rates declined an average of 5.7 percent per year, far greater than the…

THE DISCOVERY IN THE 1980s linking the human papillomavirus (HPV) to nearly all cases of cervical cancer led to the groundbreaking development of a cancer-prevention vaccine, approved for use in females in 2006 and for males in 2009. The U.S. Centers for Disease…

“Women and adolescents are often underrepresented at the policy table.” — Dr. Corrina Moucheraud

ADOLESCENCE IS A PIVOTAL MOMENT — a time when quality education, skill development and healthy behaviors can set young people on a favorable life trajectory. But…

“As community health workers we can be allies, helping people navigate the process.” — Anna-Michelle McSorley

AT A CALIFORNIA LATINAS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE (CLRJ)-hosted screening of No Más Bebés — a documentary detailing the sterilization…

WHEN ELIZABETH (BECKY) YANO, MSPH ’87, PhD ’96, BEGAN HER TRAINING in epidemiology, biostatistics and health policy, the idea that she might use her Fielding School education to spearhead a transformation in how the nation’s largest integrated health…

Several million people in several hundred U.S. cities marched on January 21, 2017 in what has been called the largest single-day protest in the nation’s history. But the Women’s March wasn’t confined to the U.S. — demonstrators in 81 other countries across all seven…

IN THE U.S. AND GLOBALLY, women and girls face unmet needs for preventive services, health care and better living conditions. Around the world, more than 200 million women and youth who don’t want to become pregnant are unable to obtain and use safe and effective means…