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The Jonathan Fielding Chair in Climate Change and Public Health — the first endowed chair at UCLA with climate change in its title — has been established at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health through a generous donation by Dr. Jonathan and Karin Fielding. Dr.
Vilsa Eliana Curto, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a Faculty Affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Dr. Curto is a health economist with an AB in Mathematics from Harvard, an MA in Economics from Stanford, and a PhD in Economics from Stanford. Before joining UCLA, Dr. Curto was Assistant Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr.
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- AB, Mathematics, Harvard University
- MA, Economics, Stanford University
- PhD, Economics, Stanford University
If you haven’t visited the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s first-floor corridor lately, a vastly different environment awaits.
2024 UCLA Fielding Commencement
Congratulations to UCLA Fielding's Class of 2024!
The 2024 UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Commencement Ceremony was held on Friday, June 14 at 5:30pm PT in Royce Hall. To view the ceremony, please visit the school's YouTube page.
Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, director of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and State Public Health Officer since January 2021, will deliver the 2024 commencement address at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s commencement ceremony on Friday, June 14.
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Dr. Ying-Ying Meng, director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and scholar at UCLA Fielding, whose work focused on the causes of and solutions to inequities in health and health care delivery from a holistic perspective, died of cancer on April 11. She was 68.
The 2024 U.S. News & World Report list of the Best Public Health Schools ranks the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (UCLA Fielding) at number 9 in the country and number 1 in California.
In a special issue of the American Journal of Public Health, guest editors Vickie M. Mays and Susan D. Cochran call for a reframing and redoubling of public mental health efforts.