Politico's E&E News interviewed Dr. Kathryn Leifheit, assistant professor in UCLA Fielding's Department of Health Policy and Management, about recent research she co-authored that finds climate change is a top factor in year-to-year homelessness spikes in the United States.
More than 160 volunteers - including a large contingent of UCLA students, faculty and staff - fanned out across the streets of Westwood Jan. 22 as part of the Westwood Homeless Count, an annual effort to accurately tally the number of unhoused people living in the local community.
UCLA Fielding's Dr. Randall Kuhn, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, was interviewed on KPCC-FM's "AirTalk" program about homelessness in Los Angeles County.
A team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers has received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand their study of Los Angeles County’s unhoused population.
The New York Times interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Chelsea Shover, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the impact of funding reductions for "harm reduction" strategies in addiction treatment.
"... Harm reduction supporters reject the notion that protecting people from the worst consequences of drugs encourages use.
Kathryn Leifheit, PhD MSPH is a social epidemiologist who aims to identify policy levers to improve population health and health equity, with a focus on housing programs and policies. Her research has documented population health impacts of widespread housing insecurity and evictions, as well as health impacts of key housing policies.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, US
- MSPH, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, US
- BA, Biochemistry and Latin American Studies, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, US
A team of UCLA engineers and researchers has developed a new technique to make it feel up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit cooler outside while preserving a sense of safe and open space.
Dr. Crable is an Assistant Professor with expertise in health policy, health services research, and implementation science. Her research investigates the roles of policy and politics in achieving health equity outcomes. Dr. Crable tests dissemination and implementation strategies aimed at improving how research is communicated to policy actors, and increasing access to evidence-based substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, harm reduction, and HIV prevention services for safety-net and criminal/legal-involved populations.
Education
- PhD, Health Services Research, Boston University, Boston, USA
- MPH, Global Health, Boston University, Boston, USA
- BA, Journalism & Anthropology, American University, Washington DC, USA
Research from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Randall Kuhn and colleagues at UCLA and USC shows the health risk for people experiencing homelessness goes beyond challenges inherent to living without shelter.
A countywide sample of unsheltered homeless people surveyed on their mobile phones reported that police were more likely than outreach workers to be their initial contact during sweeps of homeless encampments and that they were as likely to be cited as to gain housing.