In 1998, Noe Ramirez crossed into the United States from Mexico, hoping to earn enough to buy a new taxi to replace the sputtering cab he drove in Mexico City. The part-time musician found construction work in Houston, playing guitar on the weekends.

One morning…

California voters will decide in November whether to uphold or block a law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2020 that banned the sale of certain flavored tobacco products, an effort by anti-tobacco advocates to stop a youth vaping crisis and weaken the industry’s influence in…

New UCLA-led research, co-authored by Dr. Pamina Gorbach, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, suggests certain gut bacteria -- including one that is essential for a healthy gut microbiome – differ between people who go on to acquire HIV…

Angela Rose David is a first generation Filipino American, born and raised in Los Angeles, California, with familial ties to Oriental Mindoro, Philippines. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. in Biology. Angela Rose currently works…

New monkeypox cases are declining in the United States, a trend public health officials and clinicians attribute to vaccination and changes in behavior.

Eligible individuals who did not receive the monkeypox vaccine were about 14 times more likely to become…

“The pandemic is over."

It’s a pronouncement we’ve heard several times in the more than 2½ years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

As California enters fall with the coronavirus very much on the decline, some are once again…

Research co-authored by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty and staff illustrates the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on ethnic communities in the United States over the past three years, and the need to improve understanding of how the pandemic rippled…

NPR (SCPR/KPCC-FM) interviewed Dr. May Sudhinaraset, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor of community health sciences, about a $3 million, 5-year-long study she is leading of the sexual and reproductive health of Asian immigrant women in the United…

In the Central Valley, where two-thirds of the nation’s fruit and nuts are grown, the pastoral landscape masks entrenched racial and economic disparities. Life expectancy in Fresno County drops by 20 years depending on where you live, and it’s those who live in…

It was the worst California heat wave ever recorded in September — an epic grilling that disabled one of Twitter’s main data centers, pushed the power grid to its limit and triggered a succession of weather and safety alerts.

For 10 grueling days, meteorologists…

UCLA is launching the Initiative to Study Hate, an ambitious social impact project that brings together a broad consortium of scholars to understand and ultimately mitigate hate in its multiple forms.

Supported by a $3 million gift from an anonymous donor,…

Get your flu shot in 'sweet spot' season before mid-November: Dr. Anne Rimoin

Fox News interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, about…

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…