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.
WHEN DEBORAH WU (MPH ’19) discovered she was the inaugural recipient of the Levin-Gordon Health Policy and Management Fellowship, the first thing she did was tell her mother, who had taken on a second job to support her daughter’s education.
Ron Andersen received an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who.
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is pleased to honor the donors whose generosity strengthens our school and keeps us at the forefront of public health education, research and service. This Honor Roll gratefully acknowledges gifts and grants of $1,000 and above made to the school from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018. Contributions of every amount are of great importance to the school and are deeply appreciated. We are also grateful to those who give of their time and talents to enhance the educational experiences of our students.
THIS YEAR HAS BROUGHT TWO SEISMIC PUBLIC HEALTH EVENTS. One, the worst pandemic in more than a century, has laid bare our nation’s decades-long failure to adequately invest in public health. The other, a long-overdue reckoning with structural racism, casts a harsh light on an ongoing moral failing that has stained our society for centuries — with consequences that are magnified by COVID-19.
Jonah Lipsitt
HIGHER TEMPERATURES, extreme weather events, sea-level rise and more frequent outbreaks of vectorand water-borne infectious diseases are among the effects of climate change that threaten the health of populations in many parts of the world.