Healthy Direction

Several million people in several hundred U.S. cities marched on January 21, 2017 in what has been called the largest single-day protest in the nation’s history. But the Women’s March wasn’t confined to the U.S. — demonstrators in 81 other countries across all seven continents participated.

The number of women in the VA health system is growing rapidly. FSPH’s Elizabeth Yano has spearheaded a national effort to identify and address their health care needs.

As a policy fellow with California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, FSPH student Anna-Michelle McSorley worked with Latina women advocating for health rights.

Through her research, FSPH’s Corrina Moucheraud sheds light on policies that can help low-income countries promote healthier lives for girls and women.

The HPV vaccine represented a breakthrough in the fight against cervical and other cancers, but immunization rates remain disappointingly low. FSPH researchers are teaming up with a major provider of care for low-income patients to test strategies to increase uptake.

A decade-long partnership between FSPH and colleagues in Tibet has helped more women give birth in safe settings.

FSPH faculty members are studying how abusive relationships may affect women in communities where the issue isn’t typically discussed.

Through a big-picture perspective on how women can optimize their health, FSPH faculty are contributing to a new paradigm.

A passion for advocacy led Julie Elginer to pursue a Fielding School doctorate. Now, as a faculty member, she gives students the tools they need to influence women’s health policy.

FSPH students are leading an initiative to make it easier for women at UCLA to breastfeed and pump.

FSPH professor and vice chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences Upchurch offers a more holistic view.

This Honor Roll gratefully acknowledges gifts and private grants made to the school from January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2017.

Dr. Ray Goodman (MPH ’72), a renowned public health physician dedicated to advancing population health and a Fielding School champion through his philanthropy and leadership, passed away at the age of 97 on February 19. The FSPH community gathered in April to remember Goodman and honor his achievements in public health as part of the 44th Annual Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture, an event he and his wife Betty J. Goodman established.

We are pleased to share with you our faculty members' awards and service recognitions from the 2017-18 academic year.

Visionary support puts FSPH at the forefront of prevention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the world’s most complex, important hubs of disease emergence.