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, …

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…

AFTER A $1 MILLION GIFT from Tom and Edna Gordon and the Don S. Levin Trust established the Paul Torrens Chair in Healthcare Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Tom Gordon vowed that he was just getting started.…

SCROLLING THROUGH INSTAGRAM IN AUGUST 2020, DR. KRISTEN CHOI (MS ’18), assistant professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the UCLA School of Nursing, came across an ad that would dramatically alter how she’d spend her days.

Pfizer was…