As the new chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Dr. Carol Mangione leads a national effort to promote evidence-based preventive care and mitigate systemic racism in the development and implementation of preventive services.
When Dr. E. Dale Abel, chair of the Department of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and executive medical director of the UCLA Health Department of Medicine, looks at the incidence of sickle cell disease and how patients are treated, he sees a gloomy portrait of unequal care that is “spotty at best, and very fragmented.”
“We live in a city that has significant health care disparities, and this is exemplified by sickle cell disease, which primarily affects people of color,” he said.
Dr. Steven P. Wallace, the late professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, has been honored by the Journal of Aging and Health with a special edition as a tribute to his work as a leader in the field of minority aging research.
Julie Carafelli is Assistant Director of the Executive Programs in Health Policy and Management, in UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. Julie obtained her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Michigan State University and moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter. She joined UCLA’s Executive Master in Public Health (EMPH) Program in 2005 as an Administrative Assistant under the leadership of Founding Director, Dr. Paul Torrens.
It’s a ‘human-rights’ crisis, said Dr. Ninez Ponce, chair of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management and director of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
COVID-19’s relentless death toll is robbing the Latino community of what has long been viewed as a secret weapon behind its impressive growth and rising prosperity: grandparents.
Multigenerational households have played an especially important role in helping Latinos as they’ve grown into California’s largest ethnic group and the second-largest in the nation.
Elder Latinos, who are more likely than average to remain in the workforce past retirement age, often provide an additional income to the shared household.
Dr. Patricia Ganz, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health distinguished professor of health policy and management, has been recognized for her work to improve the care and lives of cancer survivors and their families.
WHEN DR. DAVID CARLISLE (MPH ’88, PHD ’92) looks out the window of his office at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU), where he serves as president and CEO, he is reminded of the urgency of CDU’s work in bringing more diversity into the health care professions.
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