A professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been honored for his work leading research and education efforts to promote inclusive health among sexual and gender minorities and marginalized communities worldwide.
For the first time in history, one out of every five people in the U.S. are Latino, according to a new data analysis by the Latino GDP Project from UCLA and California Lutheran University.
Bloomberg interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology, about the current outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa.
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.