UCLA Fielding's Dr. Liwei Chen, a physician and professor in the Department of Epidemiology, was interviewed by MedPage Today about her research into the timing of meals and diabetes.
In a commentary published in the January edition of the American Journal of Public Health, UCLA Fielding's Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, professor in the departments of Epidemiology and Community Health Sciences, shared his perspective on the lessons learned of the COVID-19 pandemic.
KTLA-TV in Los Angeles interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the UCLA Fielding School’s Department of Epidemiology and Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, was interviewed about the lack of any research that shows a connection between vaccines and autism.
Seven distinguished graduates of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health have been named as members of the school’s “Hall of Fame” for 2025, recognizing their work since graduation as having a major impact on public health, both in Los Angeles and globally.
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.
Alison Gemmill is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health and a nationally recognized expert in perinatal epidemiology and fertility. Her research leverages large-scale data and natural experiments to understand how structural and political determinants—such as policies, economic shocks, and social stressors—shape maternal, infant, and reproductive health outcomes, including preterm birth, fetal loss, and maternal complications.
Education
- PhD, Demography, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- MA, Demography, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- MPH, Maternal and Child Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- BA, Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
NBC News interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, professor in the departments of Epidemiology and Community Health Sciences, about the safety of flu shots.
“Really, these are extremely safe vaccines,” said Kim-Farley, a professor at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. “There’s nothing people need to be alarmed about.”
The 2025 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo will be from:
November 2, 2025 – November 5, 2025, 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm (Eastern Time), at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty, students, and staff will participate at the 2025 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC: "Making the Public’s Health a National Priority."
A professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been honored for his research into how working conditions lead to cardiovascular diseases (CVD), currently the leading cause of death in many countries, in both the West and globally.
NPR interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Gordon–Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, for the "Morning Edition" program, about a new strain of the Mpox virus, after three cases were reported last week in Southern California.