public health

Prescription drug monitoring programs and laws aimed at preventing opioid abuse are not doing much to stem this growing threat to public health.

UCLA students study aging through a prism of disciplines, from biology through public health, and interact with older adults.

Wayne Wong spent three years at UCLA studying microbiology and globalization, never suspecting that he would soon be facing issues he studied and discussed in the classroom in Uganda.

Cain, a faculty associate of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, says most Californians don't know about this new law.

Over many years, UCLA researchers have learned that families change their behavior when they get live interactive training sessions with the familiar staff at their child’s Head Start school.

Social work professor Mark Kaplan found that an increase in high-risk drinking during the Great Recession may explain the rise in alcohol-related suicides by men — but not women.

Dr. Alice Kuo and Dr. Angelica Zen argue that gun safety is a relevant issue for children's doctors and, if discussed in appointments, could reduce the number of accidents and deaths involving children.

A policy report by the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability finds that Proposition 84 achieved some, but not all, of its ambitious goals.

A new study traces how a largely unfamiliar pathogen led to a global epidemic that has linked the virus to fetal brain-development disorders and Guillain-Barre syndrome.

The initiative will train a new generation to help achieve a set of ambitious U.N.-approved goals to reduce poverty and hunger, improve health, advance education and make cities more sustainable.

More than 1 in 9 people around the world do not have access to safe, clean drinking water, and the problem is expected to worsen due in part to climate change.

Professor Roshan Bastani of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is the director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Prevention Research.

The public health researcher and educator has educated two generations of Asian health leaders who are altering the path of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The results presented in a new study by researchers at UCLA and in Brazil Zika revealed associations between infection and “grave outcomes” including fetal death, fetal growth restriction and nervous system damage.

Mangione will join a diverse group of national xperts working to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services.

A 24-runner team from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health took part in the 2016 Los Angeles Marathon and Charity Relay on Feb. 14.

The report recommends that a state agency and agricultural commissioners evaluate pesticide mixtures and implement regulations to more adequately protect human health.

People who become targets of discrimination can suffer effects ranging from low self-esteem to a higher risk for developing stress-related disorders such as anxiety and depression.

Even smokers want to live free of secondhand smoke, says the director of UCLA Smokefree Air for Everyone at the Center for Health Policy Research.

Through a systematic review of Alzheimer’s studies, Ron Brookmeyer’s team at UCLA has found that the rate of being diagnosed with the disease doubles every five years in older populations.

Data may still underestimate the nation’s homicide rate, researchers say.

The adjunct professor of public health helped develop 'A Path Appears: Actions for a Better World' at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

These laws were intended to control the spread of the virus but an analysis of data show that they’ve had a punitive effect on people they were meant to protect.

A new Fiat Lux course at UCLA is familiarizing students with a bygone era of acceptance of the cigarette and how a nationwide anti-smoking campaign gained momentum.

American Academy of Pediatrics gives $4.1 million to help more families nationwide manage their health needs.