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June 14, 2025
2025 UCLA Fielding Commencement

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health celebrated 390 graduating students in a ceremony at Royce Hall.

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June 12, 2025
2025 Student Academic Honors & Awards

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health recognized 16 outstanding students in a ceremony at UCLA attended by family, friends, students, alumni, faculty and staff.

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June 11, 2025
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health student Grace Chang receives Academic Excellence Award

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health student Grace Chang receives Kim-Farley Family Award for Academic Excellence

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June 11, 2025
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health graduate student Naomi Hammonds awarded fellowship

Naomi Hammonds, a first-year student in the master of public health program, received the Abdelmonem A. Afifi Student Fellowship.

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June 11, 2025
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health graduate student Kelvin Nguyen receives fellowship

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health graduate student Kelvin Nguyen received the E. Richard Brown Social Justice Fellowship

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June 9, 2025
Community organizations awarded $200,000 to implement UCLA students’ health equity projects

Four proposals each receive $50,000 to support Black male trauma recovery, foster youth resilience, autism-friendly emergency departments, and accessible playgrounds

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June 4, 2025
UCLA Fielding School celebrates new undergraduate degree program’s 2025 graduates at capstone event

Fifteen student teams presented their data-driven research projects in areas ranging from improving oral health for school-age children in Los Angeles to providing better support to caregivers in Long Beach.

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June 2, 2025
Science | "Explosive mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone overwhelms health systems"

Dr. Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health who has studied mpox for decades, was interviewed by Science about a new outbreak in Sierra Leone.

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June 1, 2025
How are pesticides and Parkinson’s disease linked? One doctor's research spans 25 years

Dr. Beate Ritz’s research in California’s Central Valley highlights the role of the environment in the neurodegenerative disorder.

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What are the long-term health impacts of the LA wildfires?
May 12, 2025
What are the long-term health impacts of the LA wildfires?

UCLA Researchers could use the public's help finding the answers.

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May 9, 2025
New York Times | "What to know about the Hepatitis A outbreak in L.A. County"

The New York Times interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and Dr. Timothy Brewer, UCLA Fielding professor of epidemiology and of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about an outbreak of Hepatitis A in Los Angeles County.

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May 7, 2025
NPR | "Hepatitis A outbreak declared in L.A."

NPR interviewed Dr. Timothy Brewer, professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and of Medicine and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, for the "All Things Considered" program, about an outbreak of Hepatitis A in Los Angeles County.

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