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Participation by the UCLA Fielding community in the 2026 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo in San Antonio, Texas

UCLA’s refreshed values — integrity, excellence, and belonging — emerged from two years of conversation, collaboration and candid feedback across campus; UCLA Fielding alum Naomi Hammonds (MPH ’26) served on the project.

Shafir will provide overarching strategic, academic, and administrative leadership for the school-wide Master of Public Health degree.

Students, faculty, staff, and alums were out in force for UCLA Fielding’s annual “Fall Welcome,” held Oct. 15 in the UCLA Court of Sciences.

Don’t be surprised if Dr. Kenneth Wells trades research papers for sheet music after hours - the psychiatrist and public health professor is also an opera composer whose work explores mental health, recovery and resilience.

Don’t be surprised if Dr. Wendelin Slusser is as comfortable in a vineyard as she is on campus — she is a fifth-generation rancher whose family has worked the land in California’s Russian River Valley for generations.

Don’t be surprised if Dr. Robert Kim-Farley looks familiar from somewhere other than the classroom - he has also taken the stage as a singer and guitarist under the name “Gage.”

Don’t be surprised if you can’t book an early morning meeting with Dr. David Eisenman (M.S. ‘02) — he likes to leave his calendar open in case the swells are good. If they are, he’ll grab his surfboard, open his garage door and walk the block and a half from his home to the ocean.

The San Jose Mercury News quoted Dr. David Eisenman, a physician and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about the mental health of disaster survivors.

The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) published a commentary co-authored by UCLA Fielding’s Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, on a partnership between the AJPH and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to help disseminate a Maternal Immunization Schedule.

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is welcoming almost 500 new undergraduate and graduate students this fall.

SF Gate interviewed Dr. Kayla de la Haye, a professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about plant-based food and the challenges faced by vegan restaurants.