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 barriers…

Dr. Anne L. Coleman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and an internationally renowned vision researcher, physician and professional leader, has been named to the role of executive medical director and chair of the department of…

A new analysis led by researchers with the University of California has found the top threats to Americans today regarding dementia in old age are obesity, physical inactivity, and lack of a high school diploma.

Significantly, these risk factors are different from…

A professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been honored by the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) for her work researching the environmental epidemiology of chronic diseases originating in the prenatal period, as well as…

Dr. Jingyi (Jessica) Li, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor of biostatistics, is among 50 scholars selected as Radcliffe Institute fellows and will spend the 2022-23 academic year on sabbatical at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute.…

Students who participated in an after-school program providing four hours per week of music lessons and mentoring in five high-poverty elementary schools in Long Beach, California, not only learned to play challenging music with one another, but showed significantly…

Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) are among the fastest growing racial groups in California and nationwide. In response to a wave of attacks on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs), California passed the API…

Two professors at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health have been named to a World Health Organization (WHO) panel as part of the WHO’s response to the current monkeypox outbreak: Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of…

On July 1, Dr. Rachael Jones will join the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty and begin service as chair of the Department of Environmental Health Science and director of the Southern California Education and Research Center.

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A professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been honored by the university for his work as a researcher, scholar, and teacher while a professor emeritus, or retiree.

Dr. Roger Detels, distinguished research professor of epidemiology at…

Despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's full approval of the COVID-19 vaccine, 58.8% of Californians who are not fully vaccinated are still worried about its side effects, according to a new UCLA survey.

The finding is among the results of the 2022…

After 10 weeks of working with mentors and community partners to turn their health equity ideas into full project proposals, two UCLA students were named the winners of the Health Equity Challenge, a competition presented by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and…

HIV has an “early and substantial” impact on aging in infected people, accelerating biological changes in the body associated with normal aging within just two to three years of infection, according to a study by UCLA researchers and colleagues.

The findings…

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has updated its health data query tool, AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition™ (NE), with new topics and 2020 small area estimates that provide specific health and demographic data on Californians at progressively finer levels of…

COVID-19 spurred lockdowns and mask mandates more than two years ago. However, data released today from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) show Californians were still taking precautions, such as wearing masks and…

Based on a promising pilot program that screens for and treats depression in college students, researchers and faculty with UCLA’s Depression Grand Challenge have received a five-year, $12 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to increase the reach…

With COVID-19 still very much present, Dr. Shira Shafir, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, describes the start of the new school year in simple terms: “I think back-to-school is going to be a…

Dr. Frederick Zimmerman serves on the Healthcare Expenditure Collaborative, a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement.

Dr. Frederick Zimmerman was named a 2019 expert member of the WHO’s Strategic Meeting on Social Determinants of Health.

Dr. Frederick Zimmerman was named president of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences.