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The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (FSPH) has joined the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA), a consortium of more than 200 universities, research institutes, and government agencies committed to understanding and addressing global environmental change and its health impacts.

In response to the escalating health emergency that is already inflicting substantial damage on people in Southern California and around the world, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has created the UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions.

David Hayes-Bautista and Paul Hsu, both with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, have found that over the past three months, there was a nearly five-fold increase in death rates among working-age Latinos in California.

A team led by Anne Rimoin, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and director of the UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health, has just launched an epidemiologic study to understand occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens in high-risk populations, including veterinary medicine and animal care/welfare workers.

A team that includes UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor James Macinko is moving forward in its study of why Americans buy firearms with the support of a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

A team led by Ninez Ponce, Fielding School professor and director of FSPH's Center for Health Policy Research, and Dr. Michael Rodriguez, professor of community health sciences at FSPH, has received a $596,000 grant from the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research to address data gaps about gun use and improve firearms policies.

A research team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty has been awarded a contract by the California Air Resources Board to study connections between air pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic.

A study co-authored by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Nadereh Pourat, professor-in-residence of health policy and management, shows large gaps in access to oral health care for poorest Californians. Low-income residents, even those with insurance, see dentists less often, researchers found.

A new research brief from experts at the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative, including FSPH faculty David Hayes-Bautista and Arturo Vargas Bustamante, compares the prevalence and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two large metropolitan areas, Los Angeles County and New York City, and among racial and ethnic minorities.

Researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has found that pregnant women exposed to high levels of ultrafine particles from jet airplane exhaust are 14% more likely to have a preterm birth than those exposed to lower levels. The researchers examined exposure among women living near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), in an area that includes neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

Researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health found deaths related to COVID-19‒associated conditions do not occur randomly in the state’s population; they occur more in some racial/ethnic (R/E) populations than in others.