Dr. Chandra L. Ford is Professor of Community Health Sciences and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She is lead…

Dr. Yvonne Flores, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and a research scientist at the Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. She is also a member of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the Jonsson…

I am a health services researcher with an abiding interest in the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. I am especially concerned with improving preventive medicine practice and the quality of health care for older adults.

I have devoted my career to…

Dr. Jonathan Fielding is a Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and of Pediatrics in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Fielding is an expert in public health preparedness and communications.

He served as Massachusetts…

Dr. Aria Fallah is a fellowship trained pediatric neurosurgeon who practices at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is board…

An unusually long coronavirus surge appears to have peaked in Southern California, with new cases and hospitalization numbers finally starting to decline.

On Wednesday, July 20, there were 2,154 people with confirmed COVID-19 cases in the hospital in Los Angeles,…

In her new position as Chair of the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Anne L. Coleman, sees it as a privilege and duty to share her commitment to healing as many people with eye and vision disorders as possible.

“Working in the community has always been a…

Monkeypox was declared a national public health emergency on Aug. 4. But since the first cases of monkeypox surfaced in the United States in May, reports on the spread have mainly targeted gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.

According to the…

In an eerie echo of the coronavirus pandemic, more than a decade of warnings preceded the global outbreak of human monkeypox that has now spread to more than 31,700 cases — with about a third of those in the United States.

In 2010, researchers reported the rate of…

A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty member has been honored with the State of California’s highest award for public service in the discipline, the Beverlee A. Myers Award for Excellence in Public Health.

Dr. Richard Jackson, professor…

Will all Californians have a chance to enjoy good health in the coming 100 years? What steps can policymakers and healthcare leaders take to make that happen?

These questions are tackled in a time-jumping research report released today by the UCLA…

Dr. Muntu Davis, the county health officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, will deliver the 2022 commencement address for the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Commencement Ceremony on Friday, June 10.

In his role as the county health…

Research led by Dr. Neal Halfon, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, suggests that healthcare policymakers in the United…

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) and MolinaCares today named the 10 finalists in the inaugural Health Equity Challenge, a competition that provides UCLA graduate students the opportunity to respond to a health…

Researchers led by Dr. Nadereh Pourat, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management,  have released findings from the Final Summative Evaluation of California’s Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in Medi-Cal (PRIME)…

A new analysis from the University of California, Los Angeles suggests the state’s cap on noneconomic losses in malpractice cases has fallen far behind present-day values, and may even be associated with an increase in malpractice cases over the past five…

A professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been honored with a lifetime achievement award for her dedication to women’s health, including maternal health and maternal-fetal care.

Dr. Kimberly Gregory, a physician and professor in the Fielding…

A professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been awarded $500,000 for research into mental health care access for LGBTQ youth in the United States, including using telehealth to address unmet mental health needs in this population.

Dr.…

Two linked studies led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers have found strong associations between drug misuse generally and opioid misuse specifically among unemployed Americans, who were found to have a 40% higher likelihood to misuse opioids than those…

A professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been honored by the World Health Organization for his work to prevent HIV/AIDS in China.

Dr. Zunyou Wu, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, received the Nelson…