A nearly two-decade effort by Californians to cut their emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide may have been erased by a single, devastating year of wildfires, according to UCLA and University of Chicago researchers.

The state’s record-breaking 2020 fire…

Henry Saenz remembers when he first learned what even the tiniest bit of asbestos could do to his body. He was working at a chemical plant where employees used the mineral to make chlorine, and his coworkers warned him about what could happen each time he took a breath:…

As the new chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Dr. Carol Mangione leads a national effort to promote evidence-based preventive care and mitigate systemic racism in the development and implementation of preventive services.

Mangione has a new title to…

When Dr. E. Dale Abel, chair of the Department of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and executive medical director of the UCLA Health Department of Medicine, looks at the incidence of sickle cell disease and how patients are treated, he sees a…

New research from UCLA studies how stress, racism and discrimination impact biology.

“Right now, there's lots of calls for racism to be viewed as a public health crisis,”  said Dr. Gilbert Gee, professor and chair of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health'…

Dr. Steven P. Wallace, the late professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been honored by the Journal of Aging and Health with a special edition as a tribute to his work as a leader in the field of minority aging…

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DR. RICHARD AMBROSE Restoring Rocky Intertidal Foundation Species Across…

Dr. Onyebuchi Arah has been elected by the membership of the Society for Epidemiologic Research to serve as the society’s president-elect (2021-22), president (2022-23), and past president (2023-24).

Kevin Baldwin was named a fellow of the American…

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…

MLK Community Healthcare CEO and FSPH Alumnus Delivers Commencement Address photo_Dr.Elaine_Batchlor-AI3A5016---1_0.jpg Dr. Elaine Batchlor

DR. ELAINE BATCHLOR (MPH ’90), chief executive…

Jessica Tuan is a Project Coordinator primarily focusing on the Stand Up to Cancer project as well as other colorectal cancer projects for the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. She graduated…

Julie Carafelli is Assistant Director of the Executive Programs in Health Policy and Management, in UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. Julie obtained her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Michigan State University and moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter.…

The Food and Drug Administration has taken a first step towards allowing the sale of cultivated "no kill" meat in the U.S, giving a safety nod to Upside Foods, a San Francisco based start-up. The company produces meat grown from animal cells, without slaughtering the…

Mia Giordano spent most of last summer traveling from Antigua, Guatemala to reproductive health clinics within a day’s travel of the city.

“Some days were very long. We would leave at 5:00 a.m. and didn’t return until 5:00, 6:00 or even 7:00 p.m.!” said the UCLA…

When we go to the market, we are comfortable buying fruits and vegetables that we know have been grown on a farm, packaged and shipped to the store. Would we feel as comfortable if we knew that rather than being raised on a ranch the meat for our grill was “grown” in a…

It’s a ‘human-rights’ crisis, said Dr. Ninez Ponce, chair of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management and director of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Recent mass…

COVID-19’s relentless death toll is robbing the Latino community of what has long been viewed as a secret weapon behind its impressive growth and rising prosperity: grandparents.

Multigenerational households have played an especially important role in helping…