The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Alumni Hall of Fame was established in 2002 to honor alumni with outstanding career accomplishments in public health, as well as those who have volunteered time and talent in their communities in support of public health activities. These are the 2018 inductees:
Inductee
Class of: 1973
Lester Breslow Lifetime Achievement Award
Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Named FSPH’s 2019 Commencement Speaker
BERNARD J. TYSON, CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF KAISER PERMANENTE, will deliver the keynote address at the Fielding School’s commencement ceremony June 14 in UCLA’s Royce Hall.
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Alumni Hall of Fame was established in 2002 to honor alumni with outstanding career accomplishments in public health, as well as those who have volunteered time and talent in their communities in support of public health activities. These are the 2019 inductees:
Lester Breslow Lifetime Achievement Award
AS A DOCTORAL STUDENT in the Fielding School’s Department of Community Health Sciences, Nelida Duran (PhD ’15) spent months at a time living with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE WARNED ABOUT FOR DECADES is now unfolding for all to see, on a global scale — extreme heat, severe droughts, intense storms, rising sea levels, and an expanding geographic range for vectors that spread deadly infectious diseases such as malaria, yellow fever and Ebola, to name a few. These alarming developments, which are likely to become increasingly problematic for the foreseeable future, have made climate change the defining issue of the 21st century.