The magnitude of the country’s loss is nearly impossible to grasp.

More Americans have died of Covid-19 than in two decades of car crashes or on battlefields in all of the country’s wars combined.

Experts say deaths were all but inevitable from a new virus…

Suzanne Myers was sick, concerned and a little confused. Myers, a 55-year-old who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and her husband are both vaccinated and boosted against COVID, and in early spring they went to a weekend party with about 20 other people at the home of friends.…

Massachusetts health authorities said Wednesday that they confirmed a case of a rare and sometimes serious viral illness called monkeypox — the first infection identified in the United States this year amid a rash of cases outside the disease's typical territory.

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Two things are clear about the recent mass killing of Black people on May 14 in a Buffalo, New York grocery store. First, the attack committed by 18-year-old white male Payton Gendron that resulted in the death and injury of 11 Black people was an outright racist act.…

Discrepancies in data can delay care, resources and awareness, said Dr. Vickie Mays of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Has the United States surpassed 1 million deaths from COVID-19?

It depends whom you ask.

According to the…

It’s almost June, and COVID cases are surging again — powered by a rising tide of omicron subvariants currently circulating the U.S.

The country’s seven-day average of daily new COVID cases has ballooned above 100,000 as of Friday, according to the Centers for…

Dr. Pamina M. Gorbach focuses on the biobehavioral epidemiology of infectious disease, especially how HIV transmission, acquisition and progression is affected by substance abuse. She is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and…

Dr. Deborah C. Glik, Sc.D. FAAHB, is a Full Professor at the UCLA School of Public Health. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, served in the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa, and completed her doctorate in behavioral sciences and public health at…

Dr. Beth Glenn is a professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Co-Director for Community Outreach and Engagement in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA, and Associate Director of…

Dr. Gipson's work focuses on reproductive health, mostly in lower-income settings. Her research incorporates both qualitative and quantitative research methods to investigate reproductive health and reproductive decision-making among women and couples. Broad research…

Dr. Gidwani is a health economist whose research evaluates both the costs and health outcomes associated with healthcare services. Her work focuses on the impact of benefit design on quality of care and patient financial burden. She has been Principal Investigator on…

Dr. Gelberg is a family physician, health services researcher, and professor in UCLA’s Department of Family Medicine and Fielding School of Public Health and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of the…

Gilbert C. Gee, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. His research focuses on racism and other social determinants of health inequities among racial/ethnic and immigrant communities.…

Dr. Patricia Ganz is Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, in the Fielding School of Public Health, Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Director of the Center for Cancer Prevention & Control…

Michael is a retired partner from the Health Care Consulting Practice of PwC. He has held a variety of leadership positions over the years with the Firm, including Global Advisory Tools and Methods leader, West Coast Health Practice leader and National Health Insurance…

Dr. Penelope Fu, MD, MPH, FAMIA, FAAP, is VP/Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at City of Hope, and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Most recently, she was CMIO and Division Chief and Fellowship…

Dr. Frerichs is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Epidemiology and past Chair twice of the Faculty Executive Committee at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He was Chair of the Division of Epidemiology (1988) and then founding Chair (1989-2001) of the…