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…

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…

AS A PROFESSOR OF BIOSTATISTICS AT THE FIELDING SCHOOL since 2010, I was well aware of our school’s strengths — accomplished faculty whose impact through research, teaching and service extends from the classroom to the community; bright and dedicated students who…