Dr. David Eisenman, a physician and professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Community Health Sciences, studies extreme heat as a public health threat.

A recently published study by an international team led by researchers with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has connected working swing or night shifts with higher risk of death among U.S. workers with cardiometabolic diseases.

A new study led by UCLA researchers suggests that a personalized counseling program can significantly help women who have survived cervical pre-cancer or cervical cancer to quit smoking - and does so at a cost that researchers say represents good value for healthcare systems.

Newly-published research links womens’ exposure to agricultural pesticides, even before becoming pregnant, to poorer health in infants.

Colleges across the country are confronting what many leaders and clinicians say is a sustained mental health crisis, with national surveys documenting increased rates of anxiety, loneliness, depression and suicidal thoughts among students. What was once a growing concern is now widely recognized as one of higher education’s most urgent challenges.

Over the course of five decades as an epidemiologist, Dr. Ralph R. Frerichs has tracked disease on five continents, but one of his most lasting accomplishments may have been to introduce generations of students to the basic concepts and history of his profession.

A team of UCLA researchers has joined with community partners to test soil samples from neighborhoods across Los Angeles County for contaminants, including lead and other heavy metals.

Two related and recently published studies by international teams - including researchers with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health - have studied how chronic illnesses, including diabetes and heart disease, can stem from the combination of working conditions and lifestyle factors.

The Associated Press interviewed Dr. Dana Rose Garfin, a psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about how to cope with stress from the news of the day.

While the number of Californians ages 12 and older who said they experienced a hate act increased in 2024, a new UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) study showed how someone’s likelihood to experience a hate act was associated with race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual identity, disability, and housing status.