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.
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.
About Dr. Gao
Dr. Gao’s research focuses on understanding the effects of environmental exposures (e.g., metals, pesticides, and PFAS) on human health (e.g., cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and aging) through multi-omics data and novel computational methodologies. His research includes exposure assessment modeling, toxicity prediction, environmental epidemiology, and disease prediction.
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UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty members have been named among the world’s most influential researchers in the sciences and social sciences.
The Highly Cited Researchers list, compiled annually by analytics firm Clarivate, identifies scholars whose work has been cited most often in papers published by other researchers in their fields over the past decade. Those chosen for the 2023 list have authored studies that rank in the top 1% in the number of scholarly citations worldwide.
Projects led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health investigators have received grants through a partnership between the University of California and the state intended to spur research and real-world solutions that tackle the threat of climate change throughout California.
High rates of food insecurity, hate incidents, and difficulties accessing health care were all at the forefront of issues that plagued Californians in 2022, according to the annual California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data released today by FSPH's
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health postdoctoral scholar Dr. Haoxuan Chen, whose research focuses on the complex interaction between the human respiratory system and the external environment, was selected to receive the prestigious Sheldon K. Friedlander Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR).
Wildfires and climate change are locked in a vicious circle: Fires worsen climate change, and climate change worsens fires. Last week, wildfire smoke prompted another round of unhealthy air quality in California. Fires in Oregon and Northern California sent smoke into Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Hundreds of hazardous industrial sites that dot the California coastline – including oil and gas refineries and sewage-treatment plants – are at risk of severe flooding from rising sea level if the climate crisis worsens, new research shows.
If planet-warming pollution continues to rise unabated, 129 industrial sites are estimated to be at risk of coastal flooding by 2050 according to the study, published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology by researchers from University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley, as well as Climate Central.