What do barbershops, rescue dogs, simulated physical exams, and reimagining a neighborhood park have in common?
In the sharp minds of four UCLA graduate students, they’re key components of their proposals to advance health equity for Black men who have been victims of violence, foster youth, patients with autism in emergency departments, and children with disabilities, respectively.
A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health graduate student has been recognized for academic excellence and his research work at the school, one of the top public health graduate schools in the United States.
A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health graduate student has been recognized for academic excellence and dedicated service at the school, one of the top public health graduate schools in the United States.
A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health student has been recognized for academic excellence at the school, one of the top public health graduate schools in the United States.
As a child, UCLA’s Dr. Eric Esrailian listened to his great-grandmother’s stories of how she and his great-grandfather had survived the Armenian Genocide of the early 20th century and ultimately made their way to America. In those reminiscences, he said, one key element always stood out — how his forebears had benefited from the help and generosity of others.
That lesson never left him.
For many of us, a personal experience early in life plants the seed for our future. For 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. Weighing whether he wanted to go on to study medicine — like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather — or anthropology, the Mexico City native decided to spend several months in an indigenous community in Chiapas, in southern Mexico, observing the work of a famous anthropologist.
Dr. Alice Kuo, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and associate professor of internal medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was interviewed by the Washington Post about federally-funded research into the cases of autism.
Falco J. Bargagli Stoffi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Fielding School of Public Health. Previously, he was a researcher at Harvard University. His research interests are primarily in methodological and applied (bio)statistics with a focus on applications of causal inference and machine learning in public health and medicine.
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Biostatistics, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA)
- (Joint) Ph.D., Data Science & Economics, IMT School for Advanced Studies (Lucca, Italy) and KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
- M.Sc., Statistics, University of Florence (Florence, Italy)
- B.Sc., Sociology and Social Policies, University of Florence (Florence, Italy)
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that daily discipline rates in middle schools change throughout the school year and escalate more rapidly for Black students than for White students. Discipline rates are typically collected and evaluated with end-of-year metrics that offer a static view.
The United States is falling behind the rest of the world in supporting fathers and caregivers of older adults, new UCLA research finds — and women’s engagement in the economy is stagnating as a result.
Today, the WORLD Policy Analysis Center (WORLD) at UCLA, launched “Equality within Our Lifetimes,” the most comprehensive analysis to date of laws and policies related to gender equality in all 193 U.N. member states. While the U.S. performs well in some areas, it has become even more of an outlier when it comes to care.