Food sustains life. It brings comfort and joy. It plays a role in defining cultures. Home-cooked and commercially prepared meals bring families together and unite friends, old and new.
An ambitious FSPH-led study uses computer simulations to determine the most effective strategies for combating early childhood obesity in community settings.
More than a decade after successfully pushing for the nation’s first soda-and-junk-food ban from public schools, FSPH alum Harold Goldstein continues to make the policy case for healthier eating environments.
Sophisticated modeling techniques project long-term health benefits and improved classroom performance made possible by reimagining a traditional PE program.
How can legislative strategies such as increasing the minimum wage improve the nutritional status of a society’s poorest members? FSPH researchers are investigating.
In China’s tobacco heartland, FSPH professor emerita Virginia Li showed how a crop substitution program could address food security concerns while increasing farmers’ profits.
FSPH students Tyler Watson and Hannah Malan are leading an effort to understand barriers to healthy eating among college students, and to promote sustainable solutions.
As part of the effort to prevent childhood obesity, FSPH is partnering to create tools to help elementary school teachers bring key messages to young children.
What began as a personal mission to save her family from chronic disease led to Jocelyn Harrison enrolling at the Fielding School. Now she’s made it her mission to help improve nutrition for all.
FSPH adjunct associate professor Marion Taylor Baer reflects on strategies to encourage healthier eating, and on the role of policies, for better or worse, in nutrition outcomes.
As an undocumented student set to graduate from UCLA’s three-year dual master’s program in public health and public policy, Regem Corpuz has been motivated by his experience immigrating to the United States as a child, when a clerical error rendered him undocumented.
Fielding School students who were the recipients of academic awards, scholarships, internships, grants or fellowships during the 2016-17 academic year.
and Tao Huai received the Professional Achievement Award for 2016 from the Professional Engineers in California Government for their contributions to the project, “VW Diesel Cheati
was elected to the National Academy of Medicine; received the 2016 Suzanne Véronneau- Troutman Award from Women in Ophthalmology; and was appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineerin
was invited to serve as a member of the Anti- Racism Collaborative (ARC) Advisory Board to the President of the American Public Health Association; and as co-chair of the ARC’s Council on Science.
received the “Royal Order of Sahametrie Commander” from the Royal Government of Cambodia for her contribution to public health and capacity building in Cambodia.
