public health

William J. McCarthy, UCLA adjunct professor of public health, writes about the failed experiment to improve on Mother Nature’s options for fatty food by using “healthier” trans fat.

As part of the Healthy Campus Initiative, UCLA is joining the nationwide movement that was pioneered by the late Dr. Antronette (Toni) Yancey.

A team from the Fielding School of Public Health is working with East Los Angeles families to help them eat better.

In the city of Oxnard, one of the largest suppliers of strawberries for California, the majority of the pickers are indigenous farmworkers from one of the poorest regions in Mexico.

Thirty years ago, the Union Rescue Mission in downtown L.A. contacted the UCLA School of Nursing with an intriguing request: Would the school be interested in providing services to homeless adults and children staying at the mission?

The new Global Media Center for Social Impact will help screenwriters weave realistic, complex ethics and health issues into their scripts.

Yancey, perhaps best known as the creator of "Instant Recess", an award-winning program dedicated to "making America healthier 10 minutes at a time," died April 23 of lung cancer.