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Researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health WORLD Policy Analysis Center found that gender equality is also associated with significantly lower maternal mortality.

In an opinion piece published in The Hill, distinguished professor of health policy and management Dr. Jonathan Fielding addresses the need for increased investment in our nation’s infectious disease safety net and for global stakeholders to collaborate and fight this disease and others that will inevitably follow.

Solutions to lower health risks for students and faculty include stretch breaks, more open classrooms.

In an email today to the UCLA campus, Emily Carter, executive vice chancellor and provost at UCLA, announced that Ron Brookmeyer, interim dean and professor of biostatistics, will become dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, effective January 15.

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has formalized its research and training partnership with Sun Yat-sen University School of Public Health in Guangzhou, China.

In an opinion piece published in The Hill, distinguished professor of health policy and management Dr. Jonathan Fielding addresses the growing public health challenge posed by e-scooters.

A study co-authored by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professors finds even a short-term visit to a severely polluted city is bad for your health.

FSPH faculty members Sander Greenland, Ronald Hays, Steve Horvath, Michael Jerrett, André Nel and Dr. Marc Suchard were included on the Web of Science Group annual list.

UCLA has received $27.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to spearhead the new phase of an initiative to enhance the diversity of the U.S.'s biomedical workforce. Principal investigators of the initiative include Fielding School professors Teresa Seeman and Steven Wallace, as well as senior leader Catherine Crespi.

Thiazide diuretics demonstrate better effectiveness and cause fewer side effects than ACE inhibitors as first-line antihypertensive drugs, according to a report led by Fielding School professor of biostatistics Marc Suchard. The report was published in The Lancet.