Dr. Kristen Choi, associate professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, co-authored research that found children with adverse childhood experiences are more likely to miss school due to illness or injury.
A UCLA Health surgical team has performed the first-in-human bladder transplant.
Dr. José J. Escarce, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, is a co-author of new research that found self-employed women have fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to non-self-employed women, suggesting that the work environment may play a role in the development of risk factors that can lead to heart attacks.
Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by Politico about the demographics of the U.S. healthcare workforce.
Dr. Dylan Roby, an associate professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by CNBC about the U.S. health insurance industry.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Donatello Telesca, professor in the Department of Biostatistics, co-authored research that predicts which patients with prostate cancer are most likely to develop long-term side effects from radiation therapy.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, co-authored research that found clinical outcomes improve when patients and surgeon's ethnicity match.
The study found improved metrics in a subset of patients; when Hispanic surgeons operated on Hispanic patients, for example, it led to reduced length of stay, by half a day, and fewer readmissions to the hospital.
NBC News quoted the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) systems.