A team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (UCLA Fielding) researchers has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve risk assessment for those suffering from diabetes and related complications.

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Joann Elmore, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, co-authored the research.

Dr. Li, professor in the Department of Biostatistics, is among a distinguished group of 198 scholars, scientists and creative professionals from the U.S. and Canada - including five UCLA faculty - selected to receive 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships.

Data revealed reduced hospital stays and readmissions when Hispanic patients were treated by Hispanic surgeons; Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, is a co-author.

The findings spotlight the potential prevalence of hate beyond hate crime data reported to law enforcement.

Dr. Pamina Gorbach, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor in the Department of Epidemiology and in the Division of Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was interviewed by KABC-TV about her research.

Dr. Alice Kuo, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and associate professor of internal medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was interviewed by the Washington Post.

New report spotlights how COVID-19 affected NHPIs in California.

Co-authors include UCLA Fielding School's Dr. David Hayes-Bautista and Dr. Paul Hsu.

Dr. Yu Yu is a physician and senior research analyst at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) whose work focuses on the health impacts of weather and climate with an emphasis on wildfires.