Researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) have released findings from the second Health Homes Program (HHP) Interim Evaluation report.
For a recent six-year period, the injury rate for riders of electric scooters in one section of Los Angeles was higher than the national rates for riders of motorcycles, bicycles and cars, and pedestrians, new UCLA research has found.
Two UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professors have been recognized with the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute “Impact Award” for their research into LGBTQ health disparities.
California’s homelessness crisis is unprecedented. In early 2020, more than 160,000 people experienced homelessness on any given day, representing a 40% increase since 2015. The health effects on individuals experiencing housing insecurity have been profound, including outbreaks of hepatitis A and typhus in communities experiencing homelessness, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, which has further impacted our health system, broader community, and economy, and exposed how public health impacts housing and homelessness.
Dr. Carol Mangione, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, has been elected to the Association of American Physicians, an honor given to no more than 70 physicians per year.
Two new studies, both co-authored by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty, explore the link between citizenship status and access to health care among Latino and Asian immigrants in California.
New research released today by the UC Berkeley Labor Center and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for H
A team co-led by Dr.
For Briana Moss, a Type 1 diabetic, making sure she has the health coverage she needs to live is a delicate dance.
She and her partner are putting off marriage because even with his workplace-based insurance, the co-payments for her frequent doctor visits would be more than they could afford.
And while Moss says she’d like to work full time, she keeps her hours to a minimum so she can continue to qualify for Medicaid, the government program that helps her pay for the insulin she must take every day.
When Grant Cho entered UCLA as an undergraduate, he was on the pre-med track. But in Cho’s second year, a friend introduced him to Public Health Initiative: Leaders of Tomorrow (PILOT), a student-run organization for UCLA undergraduates interested in learning about public health. “That got me to realize that a health career didn’t have to involve one-on-one clinical interventions,” Cho says. “I found out UCLA had a public health minor, and quickly realized this was the field for me.”