An international team led by UCLA researchers has been awarded a $9 million grant to study links between exposure to pollutants, including certain pesticides, air pollution, and the increased risk of Parkinson’s disease.
PBS interviewed Dr. Ninez Ponce, professor and chair in the Department of Health Policy and Management and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, about food insecurity and climate change in California.
In the spring, 2026 edition of UCLA Magazine, writer Robert Huber focused on student civic engagement and faculty mentorship, including the work of UCLA Fielding faculty and staff overseas and featuring the research work of Dr. Anne Rimoin and Dr. Nicole Hoff on the ebola virus in Central Africa.
TIME interviewed Dr. Dana Rose Garfin, associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about the mental health impact of public health crises.
'That tracks with what Dana Rose Garfin, a psychologist and professor at University of California, Los Angeles, who studies collective trauma, sees in her data. Major events like COVID, she says, rewire people.
ABC News interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology, about the efforts of the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to monitor passengers and crew of the cruise ship MV Hondius.
EFE quoted Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, was about new research into how U.S. Latinos weathered the COVID-19 pandemic and the scale of their contributions to the U.S. economy.
Dr. Michele Guindani, professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, will serve as interim chair of the department beginning on July 1, 2026.
The UCLA Center for LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Research & Health (C-LARAH), led by Dr. Matthew Mimiaga, professor and vice chair in UCLA Fielding’s Department of Epidemiology, held its annual research symposium recently at UCLA’s Mathias Botanical Garden.
Dr. Onyebuchi “Onyi” Arah, professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology for more than 15 years, will serve as interim chair of the department beginning July 1, 2026.