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![Dr. Beate Ritz with her fellow Society for Epidemiologic Research’s award recipients](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-08/2022.06.17_Ritz_SER_Thumbnail.png?itok=a9_Gqt-4)
Dr. Beate Ritz received the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER)'s Rothman Career Accomplishment Award for her work as a teacher and researcher.
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Research by study lead author, Dr. Roch Nianogo, finds modifiable risks are linked to more than one in three cases of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia in the U.S.
Source: JAMA Neurology Read Full Article![Dr. Anne Coleman](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-08/2022.06.02_Coleman_UCLANewsroom_Thumbnail.png?itok=ddGsIjS3)
Dr. Anne L. Coleman, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and professor of ophthalmology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been named director of the UCLA Stein Eye Institute.
Source: UCLA Newsroom Read Full Article![Dr. Zunyou Wu at the 75th World Health Assembly](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-08/2022.05.27_Wu_WHO_Thumbnail_0.png?itok=VhDONbYg)
Dr. Zunyou Wu has been honored with the Nelson Mandela Award for Health Promotion on May 27 by the World Health Organization for his work to prevent HIV/AIDS in China.
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Research led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health scholars finds strong associations between drug misuse and employment status.
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Dr. Kristen Choi, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health assistant professor of health policy and management and assistant professor of nursing in the UCLA School of Nursing, to lead study of access to mental health care for LGBTQ adolescents.
Source: UCLA Newsroom Read Full Article![Dr. Martin J. Tucker and Dr. Kimberly Gregory](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-08/2022.05.13_Gregory_UCLANewsroom_Thumbnail.png?itok=Otd7wwKH)
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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Study by Dr. Jack Needleman, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, finds cap imposed in 1975 may be costing the state Medi-Cal program $245 million a year.
Source: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Read Full Article![Tablet and computer screen with report findings](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-08/2022.05.05_Pourat_CHPR_Thumbnail.png?itok=j8rhIad6)
An evaluation led by Dr. Nadereh Pourat, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, found a decreased use of emergency department visits and hospitalizations and slower growth in estimated Medi-Cal payments found in public hospitals compared with other hospitals.
Source: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Read Full Article![Health Equity Challenge finalists](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-08/2022.05.05_HealthEquity_Thumbnail.png?itok=8SKUL_QI)
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.
Source: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Read Full Article![Young children on swingset](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-08/2022.05.02_Halfon_UCLAHealth_Thumbnail.png?itok=1i2PlL6Z)
Research led by Dr. Neal Halfon, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, suggests that healthcare policymakers in the United States are not doing nearly enough to intervene in childhood to optimize later health outcomes.
Source: UCLA Health Read Full Article![Dr. Muntu Davis](https://ph.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-08/2022.04.27_MuntuDavis_Commencement_Thumbnail.png?itok=bvJripLk)
Dr. Muntu Davis, the county health officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, will deliver the 2022 commencement address for the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Commencement Ceremony on Friday, June 10.
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