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Dr. Carol Mangione, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, addresses how to reduce the risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

The Associated Press referenced research by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s WORLD Policy Analysis Center, led by Dr. Jody Heymann, distinguished professor of health policy and management and founding director of FSPH’s WORLD Policy Analysis Center, about paid family leave.

The Wall Street Journal interviewed Dr. Timothy Brewer, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, about the possibility of contracting COVID-19 and flu at the same time.

Research co-authored by Dr. Jian Li, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of environmental health sciences, found that users of smokeless products had significantly lower levels of inflammation and oxidative stress biomarkers than cigarette smokers.

UCLA researchers found that conservatorships often result in lengthy psychiatric hospitalizations due to a lack of permanent supportive housing and community-based treatment options.

In its first year, the Fielding School’s UCLA Center for LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Research & Health (C-LARAH) has had impact across a spectrum of applied research and organizational work, focused on increasing equity for an underserved community.

Dr. Roch Nianogo, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health assistant professor of epidemiology, was honored by the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust with the 2022 Toffler Scholar Award for his ongoing research into preventing Alzheimer’s disease in vulnerable populations.

In ‘Public Health Emergencies: Case Studies, Competencies, and Essential Services of Public Health,’ published this month by Springer Publishing, Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, writes that the pandemic offers the public, and public health specialists, ample lessons for the next public health crisis.

Discover interviewed Dr. Vickie Mays, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and a psychologist, about how to sustain a new positive, healthy habit.

The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Timothy Brewer, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology, about the history of the pandemic in 2021.

The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, about the impact of treating pandemic patients on doctors and nurses.