Building a Healthier Future Together

Dean's Message

In public health we focus on protecting and promoting the health and well-being of communities locally, nationally, and around the world.

Building a Healthier Future Together

Throughout the school’s history, thousands of individuals — FSPH students, faculty, staff, graduates, and collaborators — have educated, researched, and applied their public health knowledge and skills in partnerships with communities, policymakers, and leaders across a wide range of professions and organizations. They have done so in service to the betterment of the public’s health and well-being, at home in Los Angeles and around the world.

Fighting a Rigged System

When UCLA’s public health school opened in 1961, the U.S. civil rights movement was gaining momentum.

Student Perspectives: Community Health Sciences

Lifting All Communities

Healthy People 2030, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ data-driven objectives for improving the nation’s health, defines health equity as “the attainment of the highest level of health for all people.”

Student Perspectives: Health Policy and Management

Harnessing 'Big Data'

In 1964, when the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health was in its third year, IBM released System/360, a mainframe computer that would dominate the market through the 1970s.

Student Perspectives: Biostatistics

Exposing Environmental Injustices

For anyone driving to the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in the 1960s and 1970s, the most vexing local environmental health challenge could be seen out of the car window, shrouding the surrounding mountains and blurring the downtown skyline.

Student Perspectives: Environmental Health Sciences

Learning From Outbreaks

Before the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health was a decade old, prominent health leaders in the U.S. and around the world were declaring victory in the war on infectious diseases.

Student Perspectives: Epidemiology

Generating Evidence for Impact

For more than six decades, faculty, staff, and students at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health have produced research findings that have advanced the health and wellness of populations by contributing evidence-based information leading to more effective and inclusive programs and policies.

Meeting the Challenges Ahead

About 40% of U.S. adults were regular smokers in 1961, unrestricted in where they could indulge their habit and undeterred by any surgeon general’s warning.

Building a Foundation in Destructive Times

Through wars and a global pandemic, Dr. Alina Dorian has worked with government and academic leaders to develop public health capacity in Armenia and Artsakh.

Taming Wildfires’ Far-Reaching Effects

With climate change portending a smokier future, FSPH’s Dr. Miriam Marlier works with colleagues to learn about the public health implications and the best ways to address them.

Leveraging Social Media's Potential

FSPH’s Dr. Philip Massey says public health needs effective strategies to capitalize on the platforms’ power to disseminate information, and to counter the spread of misinformation.

Forward Thinking

An analysis by FSPH’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research lays out what California needs to do today to ensure that in 100 years, all residents have the opportunity to thrive.

UCLA Fielding Graduates Building a Healthier Future Around the World

In its six-plus decades, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has graduated more than 11,600 students. These FSPH alums currently live or work in 71 countries, using their degrees to build healthier futures in communities around the world. UCLA Fielding has inducted 80 of these individuals into the school’s Hall of Fame.

UCLA Fielding Hall of Fame

Eighty UCLA Fielding graduates have been inducted into the Hall of Fame since it was established in 2002. You can read more about them at ph.ucla.edu/alumni, where you also can submit a nomination for future consideration.

Boosting the Fight to Prevent the Next Pandemic

In establishing UCLA Fielding’s fifth endowed chair, longtime FSPH supporter Tom D. Gordon and his wife Edna, along with the Don S. Levin Trust, have amplified the work of a leading expert.

Future Investment

After establishing a fellowship for first-generation college graduates pursuing an MPH in health policy, Dr. Gerald F. Kominski will make a bequest through his estate to further his legacy.

School Work

How Will You Celebrate?

For more than 60 years, UCLA Fielding has collaborated with communities near and far to transform public health. Join us in marking the occasion by contributing to even greater success.