The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is pleased to honor the 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 $1,000 and above…

Janae Hubbard Joins FSPH as Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Program Manager

JANAE HUBBARD HAS JOINED THE FIELDING SCHOOL as equity, diversity and inclusion program manager.

Before joining FSPH, Hubbard worked…

AS THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic early in 2020, one country that stood out as an exemplar of the impact a coordinated and proactive public health approach could have in containing an emerging infectious disease outbreak was Singapore, where…

MAI VANG (MPH '11) says the idea of running for public office hadn’t occurred to her when she left her hometown of Sacramento in 2008 to enroll in the Fielding School’s joint MPH/MA in Asian American Studies program. But through her graduate education, Vang — the eldest…

The MPH in Health Policy and Management is a one-year program designed for individuals with a previous academic or professional doctoral-level degree who have already worked in health care for several years and wish to refine their health services skills and knowledge.…

AS A SECOND-YEAR STUDENT in UCLA’s Public Health Training Program on Population Health Advocacy in 2017, Saul Garcia, MPH ’18 (above, far left), fought to ensure that South Los Angeles residents had opportunities to lead healthy, productive lives. Today, Garcia is a…

ELAINE OWUSU WILL NEVER FORGET the summer between her junior and senior years at Marquette University in Milwaukee. 

Owusu spent eight weeks in residence on the UCLA campus, where she and more than three dozen peers received an intensive introduction to the…

CARLOS CHAVEZ (MPH ’18) already had an established career at health insurance provider Anthem Inc. when he decided to enroll in FSPH’s Executive Master of Public Health (EMPH) to fill in gaps in his health policy and management knowledge. The program made it possible…

ASK DR. SHANE QUE HEE, FSPH professor of environmental health sciences, about the impact of the UCLA Industrial Hygiene Program and his answer is emphatic: “It saves lives.”

So why don’t industrial hygienists — the scientists and professionals who help to…

In a world of fast-shifting business priorities and unpredictable change, marketers need a new way to think about event strategies. When unexpected challenges arise, agile event programs are designed not just to survive — but to thrive.

Join us in-person for our annual UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Alumni & Friends Reception at APHA.

Meet and network with fellow Fielding School alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends, while enjoying a light dinner!

The…

BARELY MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER GRADUATING from the Fielding School, Gelliza Gervacio (MPH ’17) holds her dream position, working as a biostatistician at a clinical research organization in Carlsbad, California. For that, she says, she owes a debt of gratitude to both her…

Throughout the 2022-23 academic year, UCLA Fielding is celebrating six decades of impact in public health.

Public health is at the center of solutions to pressing societal problems that impact everyone, everywhere. Cancer prevention, Alzheimer’s disease,…

Each summer, Fielding School students gain hands-on experience practicing public health locally, internationally and in between. For many, these internships provide the first opportunity to apply classroom lessons and to weigh potential public health career paths. On the…

PANCREATIC CANCER IS TREATABLE when detected early, but since symptoms rarely occur until the disease has spread to other organs, the vast majority of cases are diagnosed in the later stages, making it among the most lethal tumors. According to the American Cancer…

THE U.S. SPENDS MORE THAN $10,000 PER PERSON on health care per year, approximately twice as much as the average spent by comparable high-income countries. There is ample evidence we aren’t getting our money’s worth. The rate of amenable mortality — premature deaths…

AS AN EXPERT ON THE ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS in planning for and responding to public health emergencies, Dr. Alina Dorian has provided training, education and technical assistance to state and local health departments in the U.S., and has managed projects and…

In China, more than 3,000 health professionals have received training over the last three decades through the Fielding School’s UCLA/Fogarty AIDS International Research and Training Program. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the FSPH-based UCLA-DRC Health Research…

This section includes new grants and contracts awarded in 2020-21. Due to space limitations, only funds of $50,000 or more are listed, by principal investigator.

SUDIPTO BANERJEE Collaborative Research: Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Spatial-Temporal…

The following FSPH faculty were listed among the most highly cited in the field from 1960 to 2020, according to Elsevier BV, SciTech Strategies, and published in PLOS Biology: Drs. Ronald Andersen, Onyebuchi Arah, Lawrence Ash, Lester Breslow, …