Dr. Ritu Sadana is a global leader in public health who has shaped the World Health Organization’s (WHO) strategies on ageing, equity and the life course. She currently leads WHO’s efforts to align services and systems to optimize health and well-being at every…

Dr. Manuel Roberto Calderón Pinzón is a visionary physician, public health leader, and global development strategist with over 30 years of service across more than 20 countries. He has held executive roles including Vice Minister of Public Health in Guatemala,…

Dr. Rimoin is a Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health. Dr. Rimoin is the Director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health and is an…

Dr. Cozzette Lyons-Jones is an Ann G. Quealy Memorial Fellowship awardee, Delta Omega Honor Society member, FSPH guest lecturer, and Paul Torrens Forum panelist, with over two decades dedicated to transforming care in underserved communities. 

She…

Dr. Na He is currently a Professor of Epidemiology and the Dean of School of Public Health, Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Dr. He has extensive research and implementation experience in HIV epidemiology, prevention and intervention and has served as a…

Mary Anne Foo is the Executive Director and Founder of the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA), established in 1997. OCAPICA is the largest Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander nonprofit organization in Orange…

Dr. Carol Mangione, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by NPR about the work of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which has convened voluntary, independent medical experts to review evidence and make…

CalMatters interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante on the potential impact of federal decisions on health insurance funding, including the reality that when fewer young people enroll in coverage, premiums tend to go up for everyone.

“Then sick…

Latino neighborhoods in California are twice as likely to experience poor air quality — and twice as many asthma-related emergency room visits — compared with non-Latino white neighborhoods. These stark disparities are not new, but researchers at the Latino Policy and…

Off-label prescribing — when FDA-approved medications are used to treat conditions that they are not approved for — is widespread in the U.S. health care system. In fact, about 1 in 5 prescriptions written are for off-label use, most commonly when…

Dr. David Eisenman, professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Community Health Sciences, was interviewed by NPR on how medications can affect the way people's bodies react to, or perceive, heat.

"When you're taking these medications…

Dr. Naomi Zewde, assistant professor in the UCLA Fielding School Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by NPR about her research into the potential impact of so-called "baby bonds."

“Wealth is the kind of thing where when you need to dip into…

Study design, data analysis, visualization, statistical computing and modeling. The software R — a scientific standard for more than three decades that is widely available as free, open-source software — is a programming language that can make all of these possible.…

The 2025 keynote commencement address that follows was written and delivered by Dr. Jonathan Fielding -- distinguished professor of health policy and management and of pediatrics in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at UCLA -- at UCLA's Royce Hall on…

While more than 1 in 3 American Indian and Alaska Native adults in California experienced moderate or serious psychological distress in the past year, 61% of the individuals in that group had not seen a medical provider, according to a new study from…

Dr. Jonathan Jacobs, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Epidemiology, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about research into colitis that suggests a common genetic variant may interact with gut bacteria to trigger chronic inflammation in…

Dr. Michael Ong, a professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy Management and of medicine at UCLA, was interviewed by CBS News about e-cigarettes and their associated health risks.

“Traditional cigarettes are definitely the…

Dr. Yifang Zhu, professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about her team's work on the public health impacts of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.

A…

A team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers has found that both the distribution and reliability of electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) are extremely unequal in the U.S., with renters in disadvantaged communities experiencing the…

Dr. Yifang Zhu, professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times for a report on her work on the public health impacts of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.

A team led…