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…

With Americans about to celebrate a third Thanksgiving since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious disease doctors say it may be safe to celebrate with slightly more relaxed rules this year.

“It’s important to just recognize we are in a very different…

Dr. Patricia Ganz, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health distinguished professor of health policy and management, has been recognized for her work to improve the care and lives of cancer survivors and their families.

Ganz will receive the National Coalition for…

I MET PROFESSOR, Steve Wallace when I was a first-year MPH student in the Department of Community Health Sciences — he was my MPH academic adviser, and later became my PhD mentor. We developed important papers and policy briefs on Latino and immigrant…

As a child, Dr. Steve Wallace listened to his grandfather’s stories about coming to the U.S. through Ellis Island and his father’s memories of growing up in the immigrant neighborhood of Boyle Heights, California. “But it was an undergraduate summer…

When students enter the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health for their MPH education, they choose one of five academic departments: Biostatistics, Community Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Management. But the…

As the population increases and a large portion of the current workforce reaches retirement age, the demand for highly skilled health management professionals in California and nationally is projected to grow substantially. To help meet that demand in a rapidly…

Gun violence isn't just a criminal justice issue, it’s a public health issue, says Dr. Michael Rodriguez, a professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School and family medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

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WHEN DR. DAVID CARLISLE (MPH ’88, PHD ’92) looks out the window of his office at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU), where he serves as president and CEO, he is reminded of the urgency of CDU’s work in bringing more diversity into the health…