A UCLA-led research team has found apparent links between pesticides and thyroid cancer risk in three Central California counties.

"The work is unique in identifying specific pesticides of concern for thyroid cancer risk," said Dr. Julia Heck, UCLA Fielding School…

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has seen an alarming rise in hate incidents targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, prompting the passing of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which was signed by President Biden in May 2021.

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Jack Schlosser, a healthcare management veteran with more than four decades in the field, has been named Executive-in-Residence at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s UCLA Center for Healthcare Management for the 2022-23 academic year.

“Jack has a long…

In spite of being hit harder by COVID-19 than almost any other population in the U.S., Latinos pressed through the pandemic to produce the world’s fifth-largest GDP during 2020, according to research co-authored by Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public…

Susan H. Babey, PhD, is a senior research scientist and a co-director of the Chronic Disease Research Program at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research as well as an Academic Researcher in the Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public…

Ramces Jimenez has been working in research administration for 9 of his 13 years at UCLA. Before joining Epidemiology as a post-award fund manager, Ramces worked for the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies as a pre-and post-award fund manager, handling a…

Gilda Noori, MD MPH is a Medical Director/Clinical Examiner with the MACS/ WISH Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS). She began her studies and research career at UCLA. From 2002-2006 Dr. Noori worked as a Health Science Specialist and later Project Manager for the many joint…

Natalie Bradford, MS, PhD Student

WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, my family and I moved a dozen times. The series of moves escalated after my younger sister was hit by a car. Many of the rehabilitation services she needed were not available in our neighborhood. At the time,…

Dr. May Sudhinaraset, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor and vice chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences, will lead a multi-year study focused on the sexual and reproductive health of Asian immigrant women in the United States.

An international team of researchers has demonstrated that among patients hospitalized for influenza, those who were vaccinated had less severe infections, including reducing the odds for children requiring admittance to an intensive care unit by almost half.

In…

The number of 18-to-24-year-olds in California who reported having thought about committing suicide at some point in their lives increased to 30.5% in 2021 from 23.9% in 2020 — the year COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. — according to new data published by the UCLA Center for…

Findings from a new UCLA report reveal that immigrants living in California are much less likely than others to have a gun in their home — just 7.7% of immigrants had a firearm in 2021 versus 22.3% of all California adults. But 24.0% of immigrants report being “very…

Dr. Kirsten Schwarz, an associate professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named a program director with the National Science Foundation’s Division of Environmental Biology, helping select which research projects will be supported by the…

Health equity has become a priority across various organizations, especially during the past 2 1/2 years. As the COVID-19 pandemic intensified disparities, a spotlight was placed on inequities that have long existed across multiple social policy domains in California and…

A new analysis led by researchers with the University of California has found the 2020 wildfires in the state, the most disastrous wildfire year on record, put twice as much greenhouse gas emissions into the Earth’s atmosphere as the total reduction in such pollutants in…

Although the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the nation, only 30% of California adults said in July that they “always” wore a mask when they left their homes, according to a new UCLA survey. This is a significant decrease from the 54% who “always” wore a face…

Dr. Akihiro Nishi, UCLA Fielding School assistant professor of epidemiology, will serve as co-principal investigator on a $1 million National Science Foundation project to improve pandemic preparedness.

"Our UCLA team will lead the social and behavioral science…

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has received nearly $1.5 million in federal funding designed to support the school’s graduate students, in large part to reinforce the importance of the United States’ public health workforce.

“COVID-19 has put an enormous…

Polio has been eradicated in the United States since 1979, but a recent case in New York has Los Angeles County health officials advising local physicians to be on the lookout for the virus and urge unvaccinated patients to get vaccinated.

If you were born after…