Less than half of children ages 5 and younger in California had regular child care arrangements in 2023, with affordability, lack of available space, or concerns about quality being the main reasons, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR).
Dr. Annette Regan, assistant professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Epidemiology, was interviewed for a Q&A by The Conversation about why pertussis, also known as whooping cough, has become so prevalent and how families can protect themselves from the disease.
Dr. Alice Kuo, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and associate professor of internal medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was interviewed by the Washington Post about federally-funded research into the cases of autism.
Prevention interviewed Dr. Dana Hunnes, a UCLA dietician and nutrition expert, on the differences between soy and almond milk.
“ 'Plant-based milks are a great alternative and ought to be considered as part of a healthy diet,' says Dana Hunnes, Ph.D, M.P.H., R.D., an assistant professor at UCLA and senior dietitian at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center."
Assistant Professor Rebecca Delafield’s work primarily focuses on understanding and assessing health outcomes and health care experiences of Pasifika people. She is trained in community-based research approaches and maternal and child health. Her research examines socio-cultural, psychosocial, medical, and biological factors that influence health care quality and health outcomes, with a particular attention to pregnancy and the perinatal period.
Education
- PhD, Public Health - Community-based and Translational Research, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
- MPH, Maternal & Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
- BA, Sociology, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Inaccurate labels and confusing packaging lead people with serious medical conditions to get ‘glutened,’ says public health scholar Emily Abel
American women living in states with less restrictive reproductive rights policies are less likely to give birth to low-birth weight babies, according to a team led by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers.
Compared to infants of normal weight, low birth weight newborns may be more at risk for numerous health problems. Some infants may become sick in the first six days of life or develop infections. Other children may suffer from long-term problems, including delayed motor and social development or learning disabilities.
Researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the University of Southern California have found that a high level of exposure to oil and gas “flaring” events — the burning off of excess natural gas at production sites — is associated with a 50% higher risk for preterm birth, compared with women who are not exposed to flaring.
The researchers defined a high level of exposure as 10 or more nightly flare events within a distance of 5 kilometers (about 3 miles) of the woman’s home.
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that daily discipline rates in middle schools change throughout the school year and escalate more rapidly for Black students than for White students. Discipline rates are typically collected and evaluated with end-of-year metrics that offer a static view.
"More than a million California students could get access to condoms at school — no questions asked. Under a bill introduced this year, young people in California won't need to ask permission to grab a condom out of a dispenser at school.