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UCLA Fielding School of Public Health graduate Alyssa Arbolante (MPH, '22) named a Lester Breslow Impact Award Fellow.
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UCLA Fielding School of Public Health doctoral student Rebecca Woofter has been recognized for academic excellence as a 2022 recipient of the Celia and Joseph Blann Fellowship.
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The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health recognized 15 outstanding students in a ceremony at UCLA attended by family, friends, students, alumni, faculty and staff.
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CBS interviewed Dr. David Eisenman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences and director of the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters, about Los Angeles' appointment of UCLA FSPH graduate Marta Segura (MPH, ’91), as the city’s first-ever “chief heat officer."
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U.S. News & World Report interviewed Dr. Michael Rodriguez, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences, about how the pandemic has eaten away at the Latino edge in life expectancy.
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ABC News interviewed Dr. Michael Rodriguez, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences, about the realities of treating gunshot victims, including children and those shot multiple times.
Source: ABC News Read Full ArticleThe Sacramento Observer quoted Dr. Chandra Ford, founding director of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about racism’s impact on public health.
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Dr. Kimberly Gregory, a physician and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, has been recognized by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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ABC News interviewed Dr. Paula Tavrow, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of community health sciences and director of the Bixby Program in Population and Reproductive Health, about abortion, including the small number – roughly 9% - that occur later than 13 weeks after gestation.
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Finalists - who include four UCLA Fielding School of Public Health graduate or doctoral students - will develop proposals to address a health equity issue in California and two organizations will be awarded $50,000.
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The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, about the possibility that survivors of earlier Omicron strains can get reinfected.
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Through courses taught by FSPH faculty, talented and passionate UCLA undergraduates are introduced to the foundations of public health and its potential to transform communities.
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