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.

Updated COVID-19 vaccines were released earlier this month by the CDC, but will California adults be flocking to their local pharmacies? Not all of them, according to data released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Nearly one-third — or 29% — of California adults surveyed in June 2023 said they would not get additional COVID-19 vaccine doses if recommended by public health guidelines.

UCLA researchers, in collaboration with EMERGEncy ID NET, a CDC-supported US emergency department (ED)-based network for study of emerging infection led by Dr. David Talan, a professor of emergency medicine and of medicine/infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, have been awarded funding from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct surveillance of Mpox (formerly known as Monkeypox). Summer 2022’s international Mpox outbreak drastically receded by the fall after widespread public attention and vaccination of high-risk individuals.

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.

U.S. adults who reported feeling discriminated against at work had a higher risk for developing high blood pressure than those who reported low discrimination at work, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

According to the 2023 American Heart Association statistics, high blood pressure, which impacts nearly half of U.S. adults, is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease — the leading cause of death among Americans.

For the past three years, the LAist newsroom's public affairs show "AirTalk" — which airs weekdays on 89.3 FM — has dedicated hundreds of on-air hours to COVID-19 coverage. One of the ways AirTalk has been able to deliver this information is through a powerhouse roster of COVID-19 experts working on the frontlines who offered their time and answered your questions.

Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor of epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, is interviewed by BBC News regarding COVID-19 and what can be done to prepare for future pandemics.

"The sudden dismantling of China’s Covid Zero restrictions in December means hundreds of millions of people are headed home for the Lunar New Year holiday for the first time since 2019. The crush of travel risks supercharging the world’s biggest Covid outbreak, spreading it to every corner of the country.

Long COVID patients can experience many of the same lingering negative effects on their physical, mental, and social well-being as those experienced by people who become ill with other, non-COVID illnesses, new research suggests.