How FSPH Training Addresses Public Health Challenges
This year has brought two seismic public health events. One, the worst pandemic in more than a century, has laid bare our nation’s decades-long failure to adequately invest in public health. The other, a long-overdue reckoning with structural racism, casts a harsh light on an ongoing moral failing that has stained our society for centuries — with consequences that are magnified by COVID-19.
In China, more than 3,000 health professionals have received training over the last three decades through the Fielding School’s UCLA/Fogarty AIDS International Research and Training Program.
Alina Dorian, FSPH's new associate dean for public health practice, discusses how training efforts at the school prepare students for successful careers in public health.
Through their insights into the social, organization, and economic factors surrounding health care delivery, FSPH-trained researchers contribute to quality, cost-effective and accessible care.
FSPH's Cancer Epidemiology Training Program prepares the next generation of researchers to identify molecular-level markers associated with disease risk - findings that inform early detection and prevention strategies.
Each summer, Fielding School students gain hands-on experience practicing public health locally, internationally and in between.
The FSPH Career Services office empowers students with information about employment trends and possible career pathways, practical resources, and a community of support to confidently make a lifetime of career decisions.
UCLA's Industrial Hygiene Program, based in the Fielding School, teaches student show to ensure that jobs are safe.
FSPH's Executive Programs in Health Policy and Management allow working health professionals to gain new skills.
The UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program engages some of the nation's most promising college students in an eight-week summer introduction to the possibilities of a public health career.
As part of his doctoral training, biostatistics student Jay Xu is studying how media narratives evolve following mass shootings, in an effort to inform guidelines.
Doctoral student Rebekah Israel Cross uses her FSPH training to amplify the voices of marginalized communities through research on race, power and health.
Hearing about the refugee journeys of her parents and their friends left Negar Omidakhsh determined to improve social conditions through research.
Having thrived during her training at the Fielding School, Kate Crespi is using her faculty position to ensure that her students reap the same rewards.
Lead funding from The California Endowment makes grassroots advocacy and community organizing an integral part of student training at FSPH.
