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…

Four teams of researchers focused on COVID-19 related data analysis and modeling received grants from the University of California Health and California Department of Public Health (CDPH) COVID Modeling Consortium, an innovative consortium launched last year to ensure…

The ingredients in premium cigars make them inherently as harmful as cigarettes and other types of cigars, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Because the majority of premium cigar smokers are nondaily or…

Dr. Carol Mangione, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and the Barbara A. Levey M.D., and Gerald S. Levey, M.D., Endowed chair in medicine and chief of the UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services…

Dr. Lara Cushing, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Jonathan and Karin Fielding Presidential Chair in Health Equity and an assistant professor of environmental health sciences, will serve on a panel overseeing California’s efforts to monitor environmental…

Dr. Patricia Ganz, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health distinguished professor of health policy and management, has been elected a fellow of the Philadelphia-based American Association for Cancer Research Academy.

Election to the American Association for…

We hear the term “gut health” a lot, and while it can sound super science-y on the surface, the concept is pretty simple. It refers to the balance of trillions (!) of microorganisms in your digestive tract.

When you have good ​gut health, you’ll experience regular…

Everyone is looking for a way to relieve stress, especially since nearly half of Americans — 47% — report an increase in their stress levels since the pandemic started. One growing (but not new) trend in stress relief involves taking adaptogens – herbs or plants thought…

Cases of COVID-19 are trending down nationally, and many states and cities are lifting mask and vaccine restrictions. But before you rush out to book your next vacation, experts say that the pandemic is not over yet. 

Nothing about the future course of the…

The families of the people killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have reached a historic $73 million dollar settlement in a decade-long lawsuit against the maker of the AR-15 weapon the gunman used.

“Twenty children were killed and six adults…