2025

National Public Radio | Fielding School alum Dr. Fola May interviewed on "All Things Considered” about health disparity research


UCLA Fielding School of Public Health alum Dr. Fola May was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" about health disparity research.

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UCLA Fielding School of Public Health alum Dr. Fola May was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered"  about health disparity research.

Dr. May is an associate professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and associate director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity.

Read and listen to the full NPR interview here 

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