AS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC unfolded, Dr.

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.

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.

WHAT STEPS CAN CALIFORNIA policymakers and healthcare leaders take today to enhance the prospects for all of the state’s residents to enjoy good health into the next century? One of the most important is to broaden the definition of health to encompass much more than the healthcare system, says Dr.

THE ENORMOUS POWER WIELDED by social media to spread health-related information — for better and for worse — was on full display in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

AS CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS KNOW all too well, climate change is making for warmer and drier conditions in the Western U.S., resulting in longer, more active, and more severe wildfire seasons. The apocalyptic images of forests engulfed in flames and the human toll of lives and property lost tend to draw the most attention, but people who live farther away from the fires are also affected.

Editor’s note: This article was published in September 2023, just before a full-scale military operation in which Azerbaijan seized control of Nagorno-Karabakh (also known as Artsakh), resulting in the forced displacement of the vast majority of the region’s ethnically Armenian population.

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