At a time when public and private agencies and the legal system are grappling with how to best assist people who live at the intersection of homelessness and mental illness during a global pandemic, UCLA researchers have found mental health conservatorships for people…

Regular smokers are at heightened risk of developing cardiovascular disease, but crushing the butts in favor of a “smokeless” alternative like chewing tobacco, snuff or tobacco lozenges may go a long way toward bringing the danger down to a more normal level, a new UCLA-…

An estimated 370,000 Californians rely on drinking water that may contain high levels of the chemical contaminants arsenic, nitrate or hexavalent chromium, and contaminated drinking water disproportionately impacts communities of color in the state, finds a new analysis…

Researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, led by Dr. Nadereh Pourat, Fielding School professor of health policy and management and associate director of the Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR), …

Increasingly, scholars are studying food — its production, preparation, sharing, consumption and disposal — to better understand and tackle global challenges such as climate change, health and social disparities and labor conditions, and to improve access to information…

Two articles by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers have been recognized as among the "Top 10" in 2021 by the scientific journal Health Affairs.

“While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic rightfully occupied a large part of the public health…

In 2020, more than 2.5 million California children, adolescents, and adults (ages 0–64) still have no health insurance coverage, as detailed in a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR), The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings…

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A new study by UCLA researchers and colleagues demonstrates that the Ebola vaccine known as rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP results in a robust and enduring antibody response among vaccinated individuals in areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…

A survey of almost 60,000 Americans who had in-person or virtual telehealth appointments with a doctor in 2020 found that patients rated their experiences with virtual visits the same or even slightly better than seeing a doctor in person.

“We found that patient…

Dr. David Eisenman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences and director of FSPH's UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters, will serve on an external advisory committee for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…

Dr. Vickie Mays, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, has been named a senior fellow of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Mays directs the NIH-funded UCLA …

Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, has been named mental health program director at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Center for Health Policy Research.

Eisenberg is the founder and…

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults in California face significant barriers in accessing health care despite having similar or better rates of health insurance coverage than heterosexual or cisgender adults, a new UCLA report shows.

These…

Dr. May Wang, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences, will serve on an external advisory committee for the Los Angeles County Food Equity Roundtable, created to prevent hunger and promote healthy food consumption in the county…

There is a long history of interest in the role of nutrition in cancer but only in the last 50 years has this interdisciplinary field developed scientific evidence from a combination of population studies, basic research, and clinical studies. Precision oncology,…

Dr. Frederick Zimmerman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, has been selected for membership in the Washington, DC-based National Academy of Social Insurance.

The National Academy of Social Insurance engages…

Hamid Arabzadeh, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named a 2021 recipient of two separate awards by the American Industrial Hygiene Association for his role in the field’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I am very…

What if you were told there was a completely natural way to stop your body from aging? The trick: You’d have to hibernate from September to May each year.

That’s what a team of UCLA biologists and colleagues studying yellow-bellied marmots found; the animals -…

In a new report, researchers say the challenges of treating long COVID are amplified by a critical issue: we do not know what constitutes long COVID or how to formally diagnose it, an issue that is further exacerbated by limited research data of varying quality and…

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Research co-authored by Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante and Dr. Dylan Roby, both UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professors of health policy and management, found that U.S. Latinos saw a 5% increase in the…