Every morning, Sergio Ayala combed his daughters’ hair into twin braids, dropped them off at school and headed to work.

He loved his job as a field supervisor at his brother-in-law’s pest control company. But he wanted to own a business and was studying to become…

NBC’s Today Show 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 potential wintertime surge.

“This virus loves cold…

The United States passed another grim COVID-19 milestone Monday, as more than 800,000 Americans have now died from the virus that's plagued the country for nearly two years.

There have been at least 800,156 confirmed deaths traced to the coronavirus, according to…

California’s coronavirus numbers contain what appears to be, at first glance, a pandemic paradox.

Imperial County is a poor and overwhelmingly Latino agricultural region in the state’s southeastern corner. Its demographics are generally linked to lower-than-…

Public health authorities in Denmark and Norway on Monday released grim projections for the coming wave of the Omicron coronavirus variant, predicting that it will dominate both countries in a matter of days. Although scientists don’t yet know how often the variant…

Q. Given the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, what can individuals do to reduce risk when attending social gatherings during the holiday season?

A. The safest approach will be using layers of protection that includes vaccination, masks, testing and…

The BBC 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 how to lower the risk of infection from the Omicron or Delta variants.

“We…

The emergence of the latest variant of the coronavirus, the fast-spreading Omicron, has raised questions about the wisdom of holding or attending holiday gatherings, even among the vaccinated.

Though Delta remains the dominant variant in the U.S. and is chiefly…

Q. What inspired you to write this book? At what scale can one person’s dietary decisions really help to combat global climate change?

A. The scientific community has unequivocally identified the number one cause of climate change — us — and has been…

The "California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) 2021 Making an Impact" report highlights the exciting work produced by CHIS in 2021 — from timely COVID-19 data on how Californians are continuing to navigate the pandemic’s conditions and challenges, to the many…

COVID-19 is a grave pandemic, the worst we have seen since the 1918 flu pandemic. Its virus is not only harming and killing hundreds of thousands of us, but it is also creating despair and poverty. Its economic and mental health harms are incalculable. As a…

Researchers worldwide are scrambling to develop coronavirus vaccines. More than 140 candidates are being advanced with all possible speed by research teams from small academic labs and big drug companies alike. While the Trump administration is…

FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS, AS Dr. Catherine Carpenter (PhD ’96) has traveled to India as part of an international research team focused on nutrition and women’s health, she has seen the transformation of many Indian cities into globalized urban areas. “There’s a…

As a doctor who has devoted my career to public health, I know the intended meaning of “social distancing” as a strategy to reduce transmission of the COVID 19 virus until vaccines and improved treatments are available. But the term “social distancing” mis-…

SARAH FANTA LOVED HER JOB AS A DIETITIAN with the Public Health Foundation Enterprises WIC program, which provides healthy free food, nutrition education, breastfeeding assistance, and family resources to more than 200,000 women, children, and families in Southern…

AS A REGISTERED DIETITIAN who sees patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes (MPH ’07, PhD ’13) is dedicated to improving people’s health by counseling them on the foods they eat. As an environmentalist raising an 8-year-old son…

WITHOUT A SINGLE NEW MENU INGREDIENT, McDonald’s sales surged in September 2020 after rap megastar Travis Scott (pictured at right) teamed with the fast-food behemoth on a digital marketing campaign promoting the $6 “Travis Scott Meal” — a Quarter…

Lilly Nhan, MPH, RD PhD Student, Department of Community Health Sciences

I STARTED MY CAREER as a registered dietitian at a hospital, but became frustrated. Often I was reaching patients too late, long after they had developed chronic…

AFTER SPENDING MUCH OF HER CAREER in the realm of maternal and child nutrition — striving to improve the life trajectory of children by focusing on pregnancy and diet during the first five years of life — Dr. May Wang decided to broaden the scope of her…

DR. JODY HEYMANN has devoted her career to advocating for vulnerable and marginalized populations around the world through her public health and policy expertise and scholarship. As founding director of the Fielding School’s World Policy Analysis Center (WORLD) and a…