UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Last updated
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health - Main Entrance .jpg
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health building main entrance
Type Public
Established1961
Parent institution
 University of California, Los Angeles
Dean Ron Brookmeyer [1]
Academic staff
247, 70 full-time
Students690
Postgraduates 480
210
Location
Los Angeles
,
California
,
US

34°04′00″N118°26′54″W / 34.066750°N 118.448280°W / 34.066750; -118.448280
Website ph.ucla.edu
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health logo.png

The UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health is the graduate school of public health at UCLA, and is located within the Center for Health Sciences building on UCLA's campus in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has 690 students representing 25 countries, more than 11,000 alumni and 247 faculty, 70 of whom are full-time. [2]

Contents

UCLA was named the No. 1 U.S. public institution by U.S. News & World Report for the third consecutive year. [3] [4]

Founded in 1961. [2]

History

UCLA began offering undergraduate instruction in public health in 1946. For the next fifteen years, public health instruction at UCLA was within a system-wide University of California public health school. In 1957, UCLA started a program that led to an advanced degree in public health. The UCLA School of Public Health was created on March 17, 1961, and Lenor S. (Steve) Goerke was named the first dean. [5] In June 1993, UCLA announced that it was planning to merge the School of Public Health into the School of Public Policy. UCLA rescinded the plan in March 1994. [6]

In 2003, the School of Public Health began awarding an undergraduate minor in public health. [7]

On February 16, 2012, the school received a gift valued at $50 million from the Fielding family, the largest single donation the school has received since its creation in 1962. On March 22, 2012 the school was officially named the UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health and the new sign on the building was unveiled. [8]

Students and Faculty

Students

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has students from 27 countries. The school has five academic departments  — Biostatistics, Community Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Management — and offers three degree types: MPH, MS and PhD. Additionally, concurrent and articulated degrees and certificates enable students to gain specialized knowledge in areas such as global health, population and reproductive health, environmental health, and health care management and leadership. [2]

Faculty

The school also has 19 Memoranda of Understanding with institutions in countries that include Cambodia, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Germany, Mexico and the Philippines. [2] The schools of medicine, law, nursing, business, dentistry, engineering and more are all located on the Westwood campus of UCLA, named the No. 1 public university in the United States in 2018. [3] Additionally, UCLA ranked ninth in the world in research and teaching according to the 2018 Times Higher Education World (University) Reputation Rankings. [9]

Departments and degrees

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health offers degrees in the following departments: [10]

The Fielding School of Public Health offers two executive-style MPH degrees: [10]

UCLA also offers an interdepartmental degrees:

The Fielding School of Public Health offers the following joint degrees with other UCLA graduate schools: [11]

Research centers

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty and students are involved in projects that span bench science, applied research, policy analysis, and community-based local and international projects. Examples of research areas include: access to healthcare, environmental quality, reproductive health, cancer, health disparities, children's health, as well as newer areas of strength in genomics, global health and emerging infectious diseases. Research throughout the school is supported by generous federal, state and private funding, a testament to the merit of the school's faculty and the quality of their research. [12]

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health research centers include: [12]

Notable faculty

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health</span> Public health institution

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first graduate training program in population health, which was founded in 1913 and then became the Harvard School of Public Health in 1922.

The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California teaches and trains physicians, biomedical scientists and other healthcare professionals, conducts medical research, and treats patients. Founded in 1885, it is the second oldest medical school in California after the UCSF School of Medicine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA</span> Medical school of UCLA

The University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, also known as the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (DGSOM), is an accredited medical school located in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1951, it is the second medical school in the University of California system, after the UCSF School of Medicine. The school was renamed in 2001 in honor of media mogul David Geffen who donated $200 million in unrestricted funds.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yale School of Public Health</span> School of public health in Connecticut, U.S.

The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) was founded in 1915 by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow and is one of the oldest public health masters programs in the United States. YSPH is both a department within the school of medicine as well as an independent, CEPH-certified school of public health.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health</span> Public health institution in North Carolina, U.S.

The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health is the public health school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jonathan Fielding</span> American physician

Jonathan Evan Fielding is a board-certified physician in both Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, and the former director and health officer of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. At UCLA, he is a Distinguished Professor in the Fielding School of Public Health and a Professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine. He is the founder and co-director of the UCLA Center for Health Advancement in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Columbia University. Located on the Columbia University Irving Medical Center campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, the school is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Linda Rosenstock</span>

Linda Rosenstock is a public health specialist and administrator. She served as the director for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health from 1994 through 2000 and was dean of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health from November 2000 to July 1, 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine</span> Public health institute of Tulane University

The Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is an affiliated school of Tulane University, a private university in New Orleans, Louisiana.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Milken Institute School of Public Health</span> School of public health of the George Washington University, in Washington, DC

The Milken Institute School of Public Health is the school of public health of the George Washington University, in Washington, DC. U.S. News & World Report University Rankings ranks the Milken SPH as the 11th best public health graduate program in the United States.

Lester Breslow was an American physician who promoted public health. Breslow's career had a significant impact. He is credited with pioneering chronic disease prevention and health behavior intervention. His work with the Human Population Laboratory in the Alameda County Study established the connection between mortality and lifestyle issues like exercise, diet, sleep, smoking, and alcohol. He has been called "Mr. Public Health".

Anne Walsh Rimoin is an American infectious disease epidemiologist whose research focuses on emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), particularly those that are crossing species from animal to human populations. She is a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Infectious Disease Division of the Geffen School of Medicine and is the Director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health. She is an internationally recognized expert on the epidemiology of Ebola, human mpox, and disease emergence in Central Africa.

Joann G. Elmore is a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Director of the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program, the endowed chair in Health Care Delivery for The Rosalind and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and a practicing physician. She publishes studies on diagnostic accuracy of cancer screening and medical tests in addition to AI/machine learning, using computer-aided tools to aid in the early detection process of high-risk cancers Previously, she held faculty and leadership positions at the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Research Center, Group Health Research Institute, Yale University and was the Associate Director and member of the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale and University of Washington. Elmore received her medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine, residency training in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, with advanced epidemiology training from the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health and the RWJF Clinical Scholars Program. In addition, she was a RWJF generalist physician faculty scholar. Elmore is board certified in internal medicine and serves on many national and international committees. She is Editor in Chief for Adult Primary Care at Up-To-Date and enjoys seeing patients as a primary care internist and teaching clinical medicine to students and residents.

Karin B. Michels is an epidemiologist currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology for the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ana Victoria Diez-Roux is the former dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health and Distinguished University Professor of epidemiology at Drexel University. Her research focuses on the social determinants of health, and the impacts of neighborhoods on health.

Collins O. Airhihenbuwa is a Beninese public health researcher. He is Director of the Global Research Against Non-communicable Disease (GRAND) Initiative and Professor of Health Management & Policy at Georgia State University.

Chandra L. Ford is an American public health academic who is Professor of Community Health Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. She serves as Founding Director at the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health. Her research considers relationships between racism and health outcomes.

Anne Louise Coleman is an American ophthalmologist. She is currently the Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Director of the Stein Eye Institute at University of California, Los Angeles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Claire Brindis</span> American paediatrician

Claire Brindis, DrPH, is a Distinguished Emerita Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health Sciences and Emerita Director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her research considers women's, adolescent and child health, as well as adolescent pregnancy prevention strategies. She was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine in 2010.

Ronald S. Brookmeyer is an American public health researcher. He is a professor of biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

References

  1. ↑ "About the Dean". UCLA School of Public Health. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health". ph.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  3. 1 2 Fricano, Mike. "UCLA ranked No. 1 public university by U.S. News & World Report". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  4. ↑ U.S. News & World Report L.P. (2019). "Top Public Schools National Universities" . Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Lenor Stephen Goerke, Preventive Medicine; Public Health: Los Angeles" . Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ Thomas H. Maugh II (March 18, 1994), "UCLA's School of Public Health to Remain Intact in Restructuring", Los Angeles Times, retrieved April 11, 2010
  7. ↑ "Public Health Minor". UCLA School of Public Health. Retrieved April 11, 2010.
  8. ↑ Gorman, Anna (February 16, 2012). "UCLA School of Public Health gets $50-million gift". Los Angeles Times.
  9. ↑ Kendall, Rebecca. "UCLA ranked No. 9 in Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  10. 1 2 "Academic Departments | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health". ph.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  11. ↑ "Concurrent & Articulated Degree Programs". UCLA Graduate Division. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  12. 1 2 "Centers and Programs". UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
  13. ↑ "Abdelmonem A. Afifi | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health". ph.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  14. ↑ Writer, a Times Staff (2002-08-17). "Roslyn Alfin-Slater, 86; UCLA Professor, Expert on Nutrition". Los Angeles Times. ISSN   0458-3035 . Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  15. ↑ Julie Marquis (October 13, 1997), "Dr. Lester Breslow: Mr. Public Health", Los Angeles Times, retrieved April 11, 2010
  16. ↑ Health, UCLA Fielding School of Public. "Ronald S. Brookmeyer named interim dean of UCLA Fielding School of Public Health". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  17. ↑ Driscoll, Gwen. "Obituary: E. Richard Brown, 70, UCLA professor, leading health care reform advocate". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  18. ↑ Molly Hennessy-Fiske (October 16, 2009), "Town hall focuses on L.A.'s battle with HIV/AIDS", Los Angeles Times, retrieved April 11, 2010
  19. ↑ "Emerson, Gladys Anderson | 1943". oklahomahof.com. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  20. ↑ "Jonathan Fielding | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health". ph.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  21. ↑ "John Froines | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health". ph.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  22. ↑ "Jody Heymann | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health". ph.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  23. ↑ Myrna Oliver (March 21, 1992), "Derrick Jelliffe; UCLA Public Health Expert", Los Angeles Times, retrieved April 11, 2010
  24. ↑ "Lenor Stephen Goerke, Preventive Medicine; Public Health: Los Angeles", 1975, University of California: In Memoriam, University of California (System) Academic Senate, Author, July 1975
  25. ↑ Kenneth J. Rothman; Sander Greenland; Timothy L. Lash (2008). Modern Epidemiology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN   978-0-7817-5564-1.
  26. ↑ Alternative health care: medicine, miracle, or mirage?. GoogleBooks. 20 September 2010. ISBN   9781439905678 . Retrieved April 11, 2010.
  27. ↑ "UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Magazine - Summer 2021 | Our Path Forward by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  28. ↑ "Jack Needleman | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health". ph.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  29. ↑ Myrna Oliver (January 10, 2001), "Dr. Milton Roemer; Expert on Public Health Taught at UCLA", Los Angeles Times, retrieved April 11, 2010
  30. ↑ Elaine Woo (August 5, 2005), "Ruth Roemer, 89; Pioneer in Public Health Law Was Active in Tobacco, Abortion Issues", Los Angeles Times, retrieved April 11, 2010
  31. ↑ "Linda Rosenstock | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health". ph.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  32. ↑ Stephen J. Williams, Paul R. Torrens (2007), Introduction to Health Services (7th ed.), Delmar Cengage Learning, ISBN   978-1-4180-1289-2
  33. ↑ Abdelmonem A. Afifi (March 25, 1997), "Honor for Torrens", Los Angeles Times, retrieved April 11, 2010
  34. ↑ "Directory Search Form". National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  35. ↑ Ponce, Ninez. "Ninez A. Ponce". UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.