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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 7, 2025
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health recognizes first class of graduates in Master of Data Science Program

The MDSH degree program’s class of 2027 currently has 73 students, the largest group yet.

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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 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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Washington Post | “Wildfire smoke seeps into homes. Global protection would cost billions.”
May 14, 2025
Washington Post | “Wildfire smoke seeps into homes. Global protection would cost billions.”

Dr. Yifang Zhu, professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health Sciences, was interviewed by the Washington Post about research into the costs of using air purifiers and insulation to stave off the hazards of indoor wildfire smoke exposure.

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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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April 28, 2025
The Guardian | "Life for some of the immigrants cleaning up wildfire-stricken LA"

Dr. Rachael Jones, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor and chair in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, was interviewed by The Guardian about potential health risks to workers engaged in the clean-up and reconstruction efforts after the recent southern California wildfires.

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