The maternal mortality rate in the United States exceeds that of any other developed country and it increased significantly in 2020, according to a new analysis. Outcomes are particular troubling for Black women, who face a risk nearly three times that of white women,…

Over a million Ukrainians have fled the country amid Russia's invasion so far. Public health experts told Insider that there's a correlation between war and public health. They're concerned that infectious diseases could spread and chronic illnesses will get…

Palliative care can be a godsend in the final days of one's life, but new research shows that Black and Hispanic nursing home residents are far less likely to receive it than their white peers are.

Overall, nursing homes in the Northeast provided the most…

In grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve understandably had to place most of our focus on studying and combating the disease upending society. But beyond the direct health impacts of the virus, the pandemic has had reverberations that have thrown cities, workplaces…

It’s been more than three weeks since California eased its requirement that residents mask up in most indoor public areas, but not everyone has been quick to change their own daily habits.

Whether they’re still cautious about the state of the pandemic or simply…

A full two years into the coronavirus pandemic, long-haul COVID patients remain sick and in desperate search of answers. They've lost jobs. They've lost their sense of self. Many say they have lost faith in the medical community.

Despite multiple studies, the…

Scarcely two months after the Omicron variant drove coronavirus case numbers to frightening heights in the United States, scientists and health officials are bracing for another swell in the pandemic and, with it, the first major test of the country’s strategy of living…

We’ve gone from Operation Warp Speed to Operation Slam Brakes. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Congress has moved fast (by its standards) to provide trillions of dollars for response (generous by any standard). But now, with the country seeing plunging rates of…

The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health has endorsed this statement and is calling on its members to do the same. This joint statement builds on an initial statement from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. New cosigners will…

Last week President Biden signed a new government spending bill into law. The roughly $22.5 billion for emergency funding for COVID-19 response efforts that the White House had requested was not included in the bill.

That was removed after congressional…

Dr. Carlos Irwin A. Oronce, a physician earning his doctorate at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has received the Society of General Internal Medicine’s “Best Published Research Paper of the Year Award” for 2022 for his work on Medicare costs.

Oronce,…

U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 list of the Best Public Health Schools ranks the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (UCLA Fielding) tenth for a second year in a row. The rankings, released today, account for 195 U.S. schools and programs of public health…

It can be hard to look away from your phone and live your life while terrible events are unfolding.

War is 24/7. There’s an unrelenting flow of images, videos and graphic updates out of Ukraine, filling social media, messaging apps and news sites. Then there’s…

As COVID-19 swept across the United States, it became clear that the virus disproportionately affected certain racial and ethnic groups.

But the outsized impact of the pandemic on one community, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders has been largely hidden…

The affluent city of Shanghai is going through a staggered lockdown this week as it battles its biggest surge of COVID cases in two years – more than 5,000 new case a day, a relatively huge amount for a city which had enjoyed near-zero cases for the last two years.

Less than 20 percent of people 55 and older snack every day, according to market research firm Mintel. But the science suggests that snacking can be an integral part of a healthy diet, especially for older adults. In particular, it can help compensate for nutritional…

Fox News (KTTV-TV) interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, about how best to prepare for a possible COVID-19 Omicron subvariant BA.…

When Cynthia Luogon and her young son became feverish and started vomiting one night, she feared the worst. It was 2014, and an epidemic of Ebola – the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever that can cause uncontrollable internal bleeding – was spreading like wildfire…

In its second year the UCLA Center for LGBTQ Advocacy, Research, and Health is expanding its work into myriad focuses of inquiry, from HIV and mental health to substance use issues. It is also conducting trainings about LGBTQ health for medical professionals and others…

In the summer of 2020, cities, corporations, higher ed institutions and hordes of individuals around the globe declared “Black lives matter” in public statements and on protest signs and streets and sidewalks across the country. The murder of George Floyd sparked a…