Mirroring a national trend, 45% of California youth between the ages of 12 and 17 report having recently struggled with mental health issues, with nearly a third of them experiencing serious psychological distress that could interfere with their academic and social functioning, according to a UCLA policy brief released today.

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professors Jack Needleman, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, and&n

Research published in the peer-reviewed Journal of General Internal Medicine found that Californians who had moved due to unaffordable housing are significantly more likely to report unmet medical needs compared to people with non-cost-related moves.

A landmark work that details the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. healthcare system, including how it lags behind those of other wealthy countries in measures that include infant mortality, has been published in a revised edition.

The UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, led by Professor Paul M.

Ninez Ponce, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management and director of the Fielding School’s 

Nadereh Pourat, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, is co-lead of a tea

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s (CHPR) has released the August 2020 COVID-19 Preliminary Estimates, which includes pooled data from May through August for individual counties and small county groups.

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is introducing an online Master of Healthcare Administration degree program in 2021. The degree will be the first of its type to be offered by a University of California campus. 

Older people who undergo emergency surgeries on their operating surgeon’s birthday may be more likely to die within a month than patients who go through similar procedures on other days, a new UCLA-led study suggests.