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In Singapore, Fielding School alum Angela Chow is playing a key role in a response whose early success drew international praise.

The Guardian interviewed Ninez Ponce, professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and director of the Fielding School’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, on the impact of the pandemic on the Pacific Islander population.

UCLA public health and psychology professor Vickie Mays on how better data could help prevent the virus’s spread. Black Americans have a higher risk for COVID-19, Mays says, in part because of a lack of health care resources and the difficulty of responding to stay-at-home orders.

Dr. Jody Heymann -- founding director of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s WORLD Policy Analysis Center and a distinguished professor of public health, public policy, and medicine at UCLA -- co-authored an opinion piece published by CNN.com about the role that paid sick leave could play in reducing the spread of COVID-19. “Paid sick leave is the only way all workers in America can afford to stay home when they are sick and not spread the novel coronavirus to others,” Heymann and her co-author, Brigid Schulte, a former Washington Post staff writer, wrote. “The costs of not providing paid sick leave are what we can't afford. Workers without paid sick leave are 1.5 times more likely to go to work when ill, reducing productivity and spreading disease.”