Canada's Globe and Mail interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Timothy Brewer, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and a physician, about the agreement between U.S. Pacific Coast states to collaborate on public health needs through a new "West Coast Health Alliance" made up of the state governments of California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.
According to recent research by UCLA scientists, exercise may help fend off early-stage Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptoms like worsening tremors, stiffness, and balance issues.
NPR interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology, about the dangers of mpox, which has been found to be actively spreading in 24 African countries, up from 13 a year ago.
"Diseases we ignore abroad can quickly land on our doorstep," Rimoin said. "We've been lucky so far. I don't know how long our luck will hold out."
A series of three related and recently published studies by an international team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers found that COVID-19 vaccination during early pregnancy is not associated with an increased prevalence of major structural birth defects in infants.
Off-label prescribing — when FDA-approved medications are used to treat conditions that they are not approved for — is widespread in the U.S.
Dr. Jonathan Jacobs, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Epidemiology, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about research into colitis that suggests a common genetic variant may interact with gut bacteria to trigger chronic inflammation in ulcerative colitis.
A professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been honored by the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) for her work researching infectious disease epidemiology.
While Dr. Beate Ritz, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's departments of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, was undergoing training in psychiatry in Germany, her 62-year-old department chair developed Parkinson’s disease. It progressed rapidly.
“When I naively asked what causes Parkinson's,” Ritz recalled, “everybody said, ‘We don't know.’”
That question began more than 25 years of research into the neurodegenerative disorder for Ritz.
Two years after creating a master’s program designed to meet the ever-increasing need of the health industry for data analysis experts, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health celebrated the achievements of the program’s first graduating students.
The “hands-on experience” element of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s new bachelors’ degrees was in full evidence among the presentations at the program’s capstone event this month at UCLA Fielding. Fifteen student teams presented their projects in areas ranging from improving oral health for school-age children in Los Angeles to providing better support for caregivers in Long Beach.