Work by UCLA Fielding's Dr. Michael Jerrett and Dr. Yifang Zhu, and by alum Dr. Kristen Ochoa (MPH, '11), was referenced by UCLA Magazine in a summary of how the university has responded to the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires.
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.
More than 5,500 hazardous sites across the U.S. are projected to be at risk of coastal flooding by 2100, according to new research published today and led by University of California scientists.
In a testament to UCLA research that transforms lives across the globe, 39 faculty members - including four with UCLA Fielding - have been named among the world’s most influential scholars in the sciences and social sciences. The distinction reserved for only one out of every thousand researchers.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty brought the importance of academic research to an audience of more than 3,000, made up of new UCLA students and their families, at the annual Bruin Family Weekend events last week on the Westwood campus.
A decade after the largest methane leak in U.S. history, a new study by UCLA and NYU researchers sheds light on the mental health impacts of the 2015–2016 Aliso Canyon natural gas disaster on residents of Porter Ranch and surrounding communities.
Drawing on a series of six focus groups with residents who lived within 5 miles of the gas leak wellhead, the research reveals persistent mental health symptoms — including emotional distress, anxiety, depression, anger and post-traumatic stress disorder — as well as a deep sense of abandonment and loss of trust in institutions.
As breast cancer survival rates continue to climb — 4.3 million women in the U.S. are currently living with a history of the disease and in the next 10 years that number is expected to rise by another million — heart health has become an increasingly important part of survivorship care.
Certain breast cancer therapies, while lifesaving, can also place stress on the heart, raising important questions about who might benefit from closer monitoring.
But does every breast cancer survivor need to see a cardiologist?
While Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a powerful tool that physicians can use to help diagnose their patients and has great potential to improve accuracy, efficiency and patient safety, it has its drawbacks. It may distract doctors, give them too much confidence in the answers it provides, and even lead them to lose confidence in their own diagnostic judgement.