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Dr. Yifang Zhu, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of environmental health sciences and senior associate dean for academic programs, was interviewed about the state of air quality in southern California and its relationship to the pandemic.

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista and Dr. Paul Hsu, both with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, have found that Latino Californians are among the hardest hit by the pandemic.

Dr. Matthew Mimiaga, director of the UCLA Center for LGBTQ Advocacy, Research & Health (C-LARAH), leads $8.8 million HIV prevention project funded by the National Institutes of Health.

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researcher Dr. Lara Cushing, assistant professor of environmental health sciences, has co-authored a nationwide assessment of the U.S. population facing exposure risks from the burning off of excess natural gas at oil and gas production sites.

Research led by UCLA Fielding School professors Dr. Vickie Mays and Dr. Susan Cochran found Black men face near-daily discrimination despite financial and educational success.

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, led by Dr. Ninez Ponce, releases new data on the impact of the “public charge” rule that made it harder for immigrants on public assistance to obtain legal residency.

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, led by Dr. Ninez Ponce, releases data on specific questions on hate incidents, views on governments’ handling of the pandemic and financial challenges.

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista and Dr. Paul Hsu, both with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, have found that Latino Californians have suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic because of their employment and familial patterns.

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, led by Dr. Ninez Ponce, finds rates are higher among poor, multiracial, female, gender-nonconforming and foreign-born young people.

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professors Jack Needleman, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Nadereh Pourat, professor of health policy and management, co-authored a research report evaluating California's Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in Medi-Cal (PRIME) program.

A revised second edition of “United States: Health System Review,” co-authored by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Professor Thomas Rice and published by the WHO, is now available from the University of Toronto Press as "Health Systems in Transition: USA."