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A Los Angeles Magazine article about ways to improve indoor air quality featured Yifang Zhu, professor of environmental health sciences and associate dean for academic programs at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

A Los Angeles Times article about how corporate America wants to hire transgender workers cited research by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law and the California Health Interview Survey, administered by the Fielding School’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, which found that there are an estimated 80,000 transgender Californians in the workforce.

Research from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, UC Berkeley and Cornell University conducted an examination of peer-reviewed studies published over six years on hazardous air pollutants associated with the extraction of oil and natural gas, and found that that measurements of hazardous air pollutant concentrations near operational sites have generally failed to capture levels above standard health benchmarks; yet, the majority of studies continue to find poor health outcomes increasing as distance from these operations decreases.

Amy Raub, principal research analyst with the WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was featured in a radio show on NPR station KJZZ-FM, Phoenix, which examined how the U.S. compares to the rest of the world on paid family leave.