THE LANDMARK REPORT BY THE U.N. INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE released last October was unequivocal: We are already feeling the effects of a warming planet, and without rapid and far-reaching actions to reduce the carbon emissions that are altering our…

FSPH at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo

THE 2019 AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION (APHA) annual meeting in Philadelphia was attended by Fielding School faculty, students, staff, and alumni, many of whom had their work featured. The…

For UCLA Fielding School of Public Health PhD student Cynthia Beard, a once-in-a-century pandemic served as a call to action. “As a doctoral student in epidemiology who is most interested in infectious diseases, I was itching to use the skill set I had been building…

Becca Woofter, MPH PhD Student, Community Health Sciences Becca Woofter

As the coronivirus pandemic began during my first year as a doctoral student in public health, I hoped for an opportunity to serve my community. That opportunity came in the form of the COVID-19…

The Office of Marketing and Communications (MarComm) connects journalists with UCLA Fielding experts and timely, accurate, and responsible public health information. MarComm also works with UCLA…

People experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles who contract COVID are 2.35 times more likely to die than someone in the general population, according to new study by UCLA, USC, and Los Angeles County.

The study, published in JAMA Network Open this month, suggests…

RICHARD SINAIKO (MPH ’77) believes his successful career in health care management would have been impossible without his Fielding School education. With that in mind, Richard and Patricia Sinaiko, and Greg (MPH ’01) and Marcie Sinaiko…

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RICHARD AMBROSE Fighting Drought With Stormwater UC Office of the President & University of…

PRODUCED IN SENEGAL and popular through much of West Africa, the TV series C’est la Vie (That’s Life) takes place in the fictitious Ratanga health clinic and features storylines about the lives of the midwives who staff it. But in addition to following the…

WHAT WAS LEARNED

Print-media coverage of U.S. gun control policy in the wake of mass shooting events has resulted in increases in firearm acquisition, particularly in the states with the least restrictive gun laws.

A research team that included…

COULD WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION in the paid labor force during early adulthood and middle age bode well for their cognitive health later in life? A study led by Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, a Fielding School assistant professor of epidemiology, suggests it might.…

RESEARCHERS HAVE LONG DOCUMENTED HEALTH DISPARITIES — defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health” — that negatively affect racial…

IT’S ARGUABLY THE GREATEST PUBLIC HEALTH SUCCESS STORY of the modern era. Vaccination campaigns eradicated the scourge of smallpox from the planet and have nearly eliminated polio, a paralyzing infectious disease that once struck fear in every parent. In 2000, the…

IN CALIFORNIA and nationally, the health care system is geared to meeting the immediate needs of individuals when they’re sick, notes Kathryn Kietzman, a research scientist at FSPH’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR). But for seniors and…

APPROXIMATELY 50,000 PEOPLE die from colorectal cancer (CRC) each year in the United States, making it the nation’s second-most deadly cancer — despite the fact that the disease is highly preventable. Screening can detect CRC at an early stage, when treatment is…

Sebastian Ramirez, MPH Student Sebastian Ramirez

I ENTERED PUBLIC HEALTH AFTER RECOGNIZING the commonalities in my experiences with helping others. I earned my undergraduate degree in medical imaging, then worked as an X-ray technologist at large health care…

THE 175 INDIVIDUALS IN ATTENDANCE at the Health Forum at UCLA FSPH in March 2016 included some of the most powerful health care professionals in the region. They were drawn to the UCLA campus both for the monthly gathering of public health leaders, faculty…

AMID A RAPIDLY CHANGING LANDSCAPE, the only certainty for health care management professionals is that the future is fraught with uncertainty.

As the policy debate rages and new rules and regulations emerging from Washington, D.C., Sacramento, and other state…

JACK NEEDLEMAN was reading The Boston Globe one morning in 1998 when he came across an article that would alter the course of his career.

The story was about nursing organizations and others in Massachusetts decrying the levels of staffing in…

MILLIONS OF CALIFORNIANS have gained health insurance coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), reducing the state’s uninsured rate to a historic low. Implementation of the ACA has led to significant increases in coverage for all racial/…