KPCC-FM (NPR affiliate, Los Angeles) interviewed Dr. Timothy Brewer, professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and of Medicine, and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, about planned cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
NBC News interviewed the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Jonathan Jacobs, assistant professor-in-residence of epidemiology at FSPH and a gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher, about the results of fecal transplants in cancer treatment trials.
The Los Angeles Daily News interviewed the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Timothy Brewer, professor of epidemiology at FSPH and a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, for a story on the outbreak of measles in the United States, including in Texas, New Mexico, and California.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health alum Dr. Fola May was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" about health disparity research.
Education
- PhD, Statistics; University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are racing to try to identify the cause of a mysterious, flu-like illness that has sickened 376 people and left 79 dead in that country."
NPR Los Angeles addressed some of what the future of public health might look like in an age of growing mistrust of science. UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology and community health sciences Dr.
Falco J. Bargagli Stoffi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Fielding School of Public Health. Previously, he was a researcher at Harvard University. His research interests are primarily in methodological and applied (bio)statistics with a focus on applications of causal inference and machine learning in public health and medicine.
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Biostatistics, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA)
- (Joint) Ph.D., Data Science & Economics, IMT School for Advanced Studies (Lucca, Italy) and KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
- M.Sc., Statistics, University of Florence (Florence, Italy)
- B.Sc., Sociology and Social Policies, University of Florence (Florence, Italy)
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.
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.