UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Joann Elmore, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, co-authored an article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could help detect breast cancers that develop between routine screenings before they become more advanced and harder to treat.
Less than half of children ages 5 and younger in California had regular child care arrangements in 2023, with affordability, lack of available space, or concerns about quality being the main reasons, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR).
Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, co-authored a data brief published by the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute on the demographics of Medi-Cal enrollees in California.
Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor-in-residence in the departments of Epidemiology and Community Health Sciences.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health alum Dr. Fola May has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, one of the oldest and most recognized medical honors societies and among the few focused on honoring the accomplishments of physician-scientists.
Dr. Alice Kuo, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and associate professor of internal medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was interviewed by the Washington Post about federally-funded research into the cases of autism.
An estimated 2.6 million Californians directly experienced at least one act of hate over the course of a year between 2022 and 2023, according to new findings released by the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) in partnership with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s California Health Interview Survey.
The CRD sponsored a series of questions that were added to the annual California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to gain a clearer understanding of the overall prevalence of hate acts across California.
Though Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) experienced negative mental health and economic impacts during the pandemic, for a range of reasons, available assistance programs and resources were underutilized, according to a new report spotlighting how COVID-19 affected NHPIs in California.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, co-authored research that found clinical outcomes improve when patients and surgeon's ethnicity match.
The study found improved metrics in a subset of patients; when Hispanic surgeons operated on Hispanic patients, for example, it led to reduced length of stay, by half a day, and fewer readmissions to the hospital.