For many of us, a personal experience early in life plants the seed for our future. For Dr. Julio Frenk, UCLA’s chancellor and a pioneering public health researcher, that moment occurred when he was 16 and in his last summer of high school.
Dr. Dylan Roby, an associate professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by CNBC about the U.S. health insurance industry.
Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, co-authored a data brief published by the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute on the demographics of Medi-Cal enrollees in California.
An estimated 2.6 million Californians directly experienced at least one act of hate over the course of a year between 2022 and 2023, according to new findings released by the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) in partnership with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s California Health Interview Survey.
The CRD sponsored a series of questions that were added to the annual California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to gain a clearer understanding of the overall prevalence of hate acts across California.
Though Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) experienced negative mental health and economic impacts during the pandemic, for a range of reasons, available assistance programs and resources were underutilized, according to a new report spotlighting how COVID-19 affected NHPIs in California.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, co-authored research that found clinical outcomes improve when patients and surgeon's ethnicity match.
The study found improved metrics in a subset of patients; when Hispanic surgeons operated on Hispanic patients, for example, it led to reduced length of stay, by half a day, and fewer readmissions to the hospital.
A team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (UCLA Fielding) researchers has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve risk assessment for those suffering from diabetes and related complications.
Dr. Whitney N. Laster Pirtle is an Associate Professor of in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. Dr. Pirtle is trained as a critical race sociologist with interdisciplinary subject area expertise in race, racism, and anti-Blackness; health disparities and health equity; Black feminist sociology and praxis; and mixed methodologies.
Education
- PhD, Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- MS, Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- BS, Sociology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health alum Dr. Fola May was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" about health disparity research.
Assistant Professor Rebecca Delafield’s work primarily focuses on understanding and assessing health outcomes and health care experiences of Pasifika people. She is trained in community-based research approaches and maternal and child health. Her research examines socio-cultural, psychosocial, medical, and biological factors that influence health care quality and health outcomes, with a particular attention to pregnancy and the perinatal period.
Education
- PhD, Public Health - Community-based and Translational Research, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
- MPH, Maternal & Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
- BA, Sociology, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN