UCLA Fielding's Dr. Nadereh Pourat, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times about the impact of federal Medicaid reductions over the next decade in California, especially in rural counties.
Reuters interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Lara Cushing about the public health impact of so-called "peaker" electrical generating plants in residential communities.
A 2022 study of formerly “redlined” U.S. communities, which were cut off from financial services like mortgages for being predominantly Black or immigrant, found that residents were 53% more likely to have had a peaker plant built nearby since the year 2000 than in non-redlined areas.
Dr. Cody Ramin is a cancer epidemiologist with expertise in cancer prevention and survivorship. Her research seeks to use real world data to identify targeted approaches and early detection strategies to optimize health outcomes in cancer patients from the time of diagnosis through survivorship. Her current research program is focused on cardio-oncology, the late effects of cancer treatment, and health inequities in cancer survivors. Dr. Ramin received her PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and MS in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H.
Education
- PhD, Biostatistics; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- SM, Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
For Americans who felt 2025 was a ceaseless storm of norm-challenging change, there may be balm in the celebrations of the republic’s 250th birthday on July 4. Bruin experts, including UCLA Fielding's Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, a physician and professor in the departments of Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology, cast a light on the path ahead.
Dr. Ninez Ponce, professor and chair in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the California Health Care Foundation.
The Associated Press interviewed Dr. Lara Cushing, associate professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, about her research into the public health risks of sea level rise.
Sijia (Lucy) Li, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Fielding School of Public Health. Previously, she was a postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Rui Duan at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Washington, advised by Dr. Alex Luedtke.
Education
- PhD, Biostatistics; University of Washington, Seattle, USA
- B.S., Materials Science & Engineering; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Alison Gemmill is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health and a nationally recognized expert in perinatal epidemiology and fertility. Her research leverages large-scale data and natural experiments to understand how structural and political determinants—such as policies, economic shocks, and social stressors—shape maternal, infant, and reproductive health outcomes, including preterm birth, fetal loss, and maternal complications.
Education
- PhD, Demography, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- MA, Demography, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- MPH, Maternal and Child Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- BA, Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA