A five-year-long study found that a stepped care, behavioral and technology-based intervention for adolescents living with HIV enhanced their adherence to antiretroviral therapy by greater than 30 percent and improved their viral load suppression by 74 percent over common standards of care.
Latinos have once again powered major growth for the U.S. economy, according to a new report from researchers at UCLA and Cal Lutheran. The annual U.S. Latino GDP report found that the total economic output, or gross domestic product, of Latinos in the United States hit a record high, reaching $4.1 trillion in 2023, up from $3.7 trillion in 2022.
A team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (UCLA Fielding) researchers has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve risk assessment for those suffering from diabetes and related complications.
Dr. Jonathan Fielding will deliver the keynote address for the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s 2025 Commencement Ceremony on Friday, June 13.
The 2025 U.S. News & World Report list of Best Public Health Schools ranks the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (UCLA Fielding) at number 8 (tied) in the country.
The fires may no longer be raging, but their impact on our health and communities continues.
“This is our Hurricane Katrina — an epochal disaster that’s changing Los Angeles,” said Dr. David Eisenman, whose research focuses on public health and disasters. “The fire transformed everything: our air, soil, landscapes and institutions.”
DUARTE, Calif. (AP) — Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, she said.
Now, as crews clean charred remains from the Los Angeles wildfires, she worries about a new potential source of contamination: a site to process hazardous debris from the Eaton Fire. //
In an unprecedented collective scientific effort to understand the short- and long-term health impacts of wildfires, researchers from four universities have launched a 10-year study of the Los Angeles fires. The wildfires that began in early January 2025 killed 29 people, destroyed more than 16,000 structures, and exposed millions to toxic smoke.
The research aims to evaluate which pollutants are present, at what levels, and where, and to assess the respiratory, neurological, cardiovascular, reproductive, and immune system impacts of the wildfires.
Survivors of wildfires like those burning across Los Angeles can experience mental health issues long after a blaze is out.
Data from the new California Health Interview Survey, from the Fielding School's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, show associations between gambling and a risk of poor health outcomes as well as mental health problems.