The 2023 UCLA Fielding Student Academic Honors & Awards ceremony — a celebration of students' outstanding achievements — was held on Wednesday, June 14, and awards were conferred by Dr. Ron Brookmeyer, dean of UCLA Fielding, as well as faculty from across the school.
The ceremony honored exemplary individuals, including:
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health celebrated 318 graduating students at the 2023 Commencement ceremony in Royce Hall on Friday, June 16. Degrees were conferred by Dr. Ron Brookmeyer, dean of the UCLA Fielding School and a distinguished professor of biostatistics.
Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, Dr. Neal Halfon, and Dr.
In a new study titled "Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial of 2 Federally Recommended Strategies to Reduce Excess Body Fat in Overweight, Low-Income Patients: MyPlate.gov vs Calorie Counting," published in the Annals of Family Medicine, researchers determined that, for some groups, the MyPlate-based intervention may be a practical alternative to the more traditional calorie counting approach.
The UCLA Alumni Association will honor a distinguished group of UCLA graduates for their wide-ranging contributions to the university, their professions and the broader community at the association’s annual awards ceremony. The event will be held May 13 at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center on campus.
Nationwide, various reports on COVID-19 cases and deaths, racial injustice, and a presidential election flooded the media circuit throughout 2020. As the U.S. continues to grapple with the pandemic’s toll on countless lives, findings from the California Health Interview Survey, or CHIS, are taking a closer look at statewide impacts among 39.5 million Californians.
Glenna Shen, an attorney and ethics specialist in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, will serve as the first-ever “executive-in-residence” at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Trusting health advice from governments and health workers, and feeling positively about vaccines, are strongly associated with trust in institutions, according to a peer-reviewed study from UCLA researchers published in the August edition of the journal Health Affairs.