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/…

THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES without health insurance rose from 7.9 in 2017 to 8.5 in 2018 — the first year-to-year increase since 2009, just before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law. But at a time when the ACA has been…

Avram Kaplan, MPH has taught at FSPH since 2008. Previously, he was Director of the San Francisco General Trauma Center and CEO at some of the largest medical groups in Southern California. He was the key medical group administrator in creating the St. Jude Heritage…

Dr. Moore is an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics with research interests in biomedical data science and statistical genetics. He focuses on the development, evaluation, and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for developing predictive…

Bijetri Bose is a senior research analyst at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center. She is an applied microeconomist with a research interest in the evaluation of the impact of national legislations and programmatic interventions on the education, health, and gender norms,…

Daniela Abrahamian, MBA

Daniela Abrahamian is the Program Director for The Poppy Project at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. The initiative focuses on advancing public health and equity by centering wellbeing in programming and development to foster…

Carolina Cormack Orellana, ASW (she/her) is the interventionist for two PrEP-related research studies with UCLA's Center for LGBTQ Advocacy, Research and Health. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bucknell University and a Master of Social Work from University of Illinois…

Valerie has a BS in Nutritional Science from Cal State University Los Angeles and recently received her Master’s in Public Health, with a concentration in Community Health Sciences, from UCLA. She has been working with the VTA as a since June 2020 as a Skills Lab…

Parneet Ghuman, MPH, is the data access center coordinator for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). Ghuman is responsible for administering access to survey data from CHIS, organizing Data Disclosure Review Committee meetings, and providing technical assistance…

Joelle Wolstein, PhD, MPP, MA is a research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and Lecturer in the Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management. Her research has focused broadly on social and environmental determinants…

Weihao Zhou, MS, is a senior public administration analyst for the Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program. Currently he supports data management and analysis for multiple projects, including the US Health Research Services Administration Evaluation (HRSA),…

Dr. Malan currently serves as Program Manager for two public health training and workforce development programs at FSPH: the California Pathways into Public Health Fellowship Program and the CDC Lewis UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program. In…