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FSPH at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo
THE 2019 AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION (APHA) annual meeting in Philadelphia was attended by Fielding School faculty, students, staff, and alumni, many of whom had their work featured. The meeting’s theme was “Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health.”
WHAT WAS LEARNED
Print-media coverage of U.S. gun control policy in the wake of mass shooting events has resulted in increases in firearm acquisition, particularly in the states with the least restrictive gun laws.
Sebastian Ramirez, MPH Student
THE 175 INDIVIDUALS IN ATTENDANCE at the Health Forum at UCLA FSPH in March 2016 included some of the most powerful health care professionals in the region.
AMID A RAPIDLY CHANGING LANDSCAPE, the only certainty for health care management professionals is that the future is fraught with uncertainty.
JACK NEEDLEMAN was reading The Boston Globe one morning in 1998 when he came across an article that would alter the course of his career.
THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES without health insurance rose from 7.9 in 2017 to 8.5 in 2018 — the first year-to-year increase since 2009, just before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law. But at a time when the ACA has been weakened federally, California has bucked the national trend.
Avram Kaplan, MPH has taught at FSPH since 2008. Previously, he was Director of the San Francisco General Trauma Center and CEO at some of the largest medical groups in Southern California. He was the key medical group administrator in creating the St. Jude Heritage Medical Group and Foundation and became their first CEO. Mr. Kaplan was the UCLA Hospital Administration resident; where he developed one of the first urgent care centers on the West coast.
Education
- MPH, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Valerie has a BS in Nutritional Science from Cal State University Los Angeles and recently received her Master’s in Public Health, with a concentration in Community Health Sciences, from UCLA. She has been working with the VTA as a since June 2020 as a Skills Lab facilitator and a Public Health Specialist and Mental Health and Wellness Liaison. Valerie works directly with both the Community of Practice and VTA+ Communications Teams and also produces a monthly Coffee Chat Podcast for the VTA+ Newsletter.
Parneet Ghuman, MPH, is the data access center coordinator for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). Ghuman is responsible for administering access to survey data from CHIS, organizing Data Disclosure Review Committee meetings, and providing technical assistance to CHIS users.