Porchia Toussaint is the Assistant Director for the MPH for Health Professionals program, which allows working professionals to maintain their full-time careers while pursuing a Master of Public Health degree. Porchia earned a Bachelor of Science in Health Administration…

Over the past 30 years, progress in early detection and treatment of cancer has helped reduce the overall death rate by more than 30%. Pancreatic cancer, however, has remained difficult to treat. Only 1 in 9 people survive five years after diagnosis, in part because this…

Past research has shown that pesticide exposure increases the risk of cancer. Now, UCLA-led research has exposed which specific pesticides increase the risk of retinoblastoma — a rare eye tumor — in children.

The study, published in the August International…

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of access to healthcare, and this access is obtainable when a community has access to health insurance, according to work by UCLA researchers that explores insurance coverage in California's Salvadoran-American…

A UCLA-led research team has found apparent links between pesticides and thyroid cancer risk in three Central California counties.

"The work is unique in identifying specific pesticides of concern for thyroid cancer risk," said Dr. Julia Heck, UCLA Fielding School…

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has seen an alarming rise in hate incidents targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, prompting the passing of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which was signed by President Biden in May 2021.

Jack Schlosser, a healthcare management veteran with more than four decades in the field, has been named Executive-in-Residence at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s UCLA Center for Healthcare Management for the 2022-23 academic year.

“Jack has a long…

In spite of being hit harder by COVID-19 than almost any other population in the U.S., Latinos pressed through the pandemic to produce the world’s fifth-largest GDP during 2020, according to research co-authored by Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public…

Larissa Rapadas serves as the Student Affairs Officer for the Environmental Health Sciences and Environmental and Molecular Toxicology IDP graduate programs. She earned her B.S. in Neurobiology from UC San Diego and spent her early years at UCLA as a Research Associate…

Susan H. Babey, PhD, is the director of research, director of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Program, and a senior research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, as well as an academic researcher in the Department of Health Policy and…

Ramces has been with the University of California for 20 years, including 13 years in research administration at UCLA.  He has worked across various campus departments, overseeing large portfolios of federal and non-federal sponsored projects, campus and state funds…

Gilda Noori, MD MPH is a Medical Director/Clinical Examiner with the MACS/ WISH Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS). She began her studies and research career at UCLA. From 2002-2006 Dr. Noori worked as a Health Science Specialist and later Project Manager for the many joint…

Natalie Bradford, MS, PhD Student

WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, my family and I moved a dozen times. The series of moves escalated after my younger sister was hit by a car. Many of the rehabilitation services she needed were not available in our neighborhood. At the time,…

Dr. May Sudhinaraset, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor and vice chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences, will lead a multi-year study focused on the sexual and reproductive health of Asian immigrant women in the United States.

An international team of researchers has demonstrated that among patients hospitalized for influenza, those who were vaccinated had less severe infections, including reducing the odds for children requiring admittance to an intensive care unit by almost half.

In…

The number of 18-to-24-year-olds in California who reported having thought about committing suicide at some point in their lives increased to 30.5% in 2021 from 23.9% in 2020 — the year COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. — according to new data published by the UCLA Center for…

Findings from a new UCLA report reveal that immigrants living in California are much less likely than others to have a gun in their home — just 7.7% of immigrants had a firearm in 2021 versus 22.3% of all California adults. But 24.0% of immigrants report being “very…

Dr. Kirsten Schwarz, an associate professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named a program director with the National Science Foundation’s Division of Environmental Biology, helping select which research projects will be supported by the…

Health equity has become a priority across various organizations, especially during the past 2 1/2 years. As the COVID-19 pandemic intensified disparities, a spotlight was placed on inequities that have long existed across multiple social policy domains in California and…