Undocumented Latino immigrants have some of the lowest rates of health care use — and signs point to it getting worse, reports a new study co-authored by FSPH faculty members
Catherine Crespi, professor-in-residence of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been appointed by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute as a member of its advisory panel on clinical trials.
Gerald Kominski, professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a senior fellow at the Fielding School's Center for Health Policy Research, commented in a Los Angeles Times column about former President Obama's endorsement of expanding Medicare to all Americans.
An Arizona Republic story on last year’s record number of heat-related deaths in Phoenix featured Dr. David Eisenman, professor-in-residence of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and director of the Fielding School's Center for Public Health and Disasters.
La Opinión covered a new study led by Arturo Vargas Bustamante, associate professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. According to the study, more Latinos in California reported having health insurance and a usual source of care after the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions were implemented.
WIRED cited research from the WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in an article about Microsoft’s new policy requiring that companies that supply it with subcontractors offer the subcontractors paid parental leave.
A team of researchers at UCLA was recently awarded a $2.8 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development to test an obesity prevention program in about 60 preschools in Los Angeles.
Leah Vriesman, associate adjunct professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been named the 2018 Faculty Member of the Year by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration.
Dana Hunnes, Adjunct Assistant Professor in FSPH's Department of Community Health Sciences, was quoted in a TIME article that discusses the health benefits of guacamole.
Karen Díaz and Teniope Adewumi-Gunn, both students at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, are 2018 recipients of the Switzer Environmental Fellowship, a program of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation.
