The Los Angeles Daily News quoted Dr. Kayla de la Haye, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about Americans' diets, including what are healthy amounts of protein.
KPCC-FM ("LAIst/The Brief") quoted UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Dr. Yifang Zhu, professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, about her volunteer work supporting the re-opening of Palisades High School in Los Angeles after the 2025 wildfires.
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.
Dr. David Eisenman, with the Department of Community Health Sciences, and Dr. Yifang Zhu, with the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, were interviewed by The Atlantic about their research into the health impacts of the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires.
Dr. Yifang Zhu, professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, was interviewed on NPR's "Science Friday" program about her research into the aftermath of the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires.
UCLA Fielding's Dr. Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about her research into the use of the pesticide methyl bromide in California, including the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
UCLA Fielding’s Dr. David Eisenman, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, was interviewed by ABC News (KABC-TV) at the inaugural LA Fire Health Research Conference about new research into the health impacts of the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires.
When hundreds of researchers studying everything from fire-related contaminants to survivor health and recovery gathered at UCLA this week, they were not there to relive the Palisades and Eaton blazes. They were there to confront a harder question: how to respond to the growing reality of urban wildfires and to protect public health before, during and long after these disasters.
UCLA Fielding's Dr. David Eisenman and Dr. Yifang Zhu were interviewed by NPR about their work studying the public health impacts of the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires.
In a new study of the continuing use in California of the pesticide methyl bromide, a known developmental, neurologic, and respiratory toxin, researchers from UCLA and UC Irvine found the compound is still in widespread use across the state, from San Diego and Los Angeles counties north through the Central Valley.