Center for Health Advancement

"Federal policymakers have a responsibility to protect those children who have been put at risk whenever a parent claims the 'right' to refuse vaccination," say... Dr. Jonathan Fielding, #UCLAFSPH distinguished professor of health policy and management, Dr. Ratzan from the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Dr. Bloom from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dr. Gostin from the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown in an op-ed they co-authored for The Washington Post: See more

Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Dr. Steve Teutsch and Vanessa Lam from #UCLAFSPH’s Center for Health Advancement authored a blog post for Health Affairs about the anti-vaccination movement: http://bit.ly/2NB3qHM

Center for Health Advancement Co-Director Dr. Fred Zimmerman was recently named president-elect of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science - IAPHS. Read more about him and the Center's work here!

Wednesday, Nov. 7, 12pm - 1pm Join the FSPH Community Meet & Greet, sponsored by the FSPH Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and the FSPH Public Health ...Student Association. Don’t forget to wear/bring your #FieldingInTheField t-shirt or FSPH sweatshirtthere will be a school-wide group photo taken with Dr. Fielding! RSVP: bit.do/fsph-meet-greet

New models of programs to improve maternal and infant health are up on our website! https://winwin.uclacha.org/

New to the website! The health and education impact of a universal preschool program in Pasadena, CA. See the results here: https://insight.livestories.com//17ab5392-329b-4f58-ac89-/

https://www.livestories.com/blog/case-study-win-win-project Read about our work with data visualization exerts, LiveStories

"The public is really misinformed about this issue," she said. "They think it's homicide. But 60 to 80 percent of gun deaths are suicides, depending on what state you're in. So we have to start raising awareness about this." #gunviolence #suicide #npr #nprmorningedition https://www.npr.org//sharp-increase-in-gun-suicides-signal

http://thehill.com//395273-chickenpox-shows-how-unprepared #thehill The Hill

Are you interested in improving high school graduation rates? We added three graduation-boosting programs to our website: dual enrollment, school-based health centers and high school mentoring. Click to see their impact and ROI: http://winwin.uclacha.org/

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http://thehill.com//387531-treat-owning-and-using-a-gun-li The Hill

Action on the social determinants of health can be bolstered by providing flexible and sustained funding, by better meeting the research needs of public health departments, and by presenting research in a way that promotes cross-sector collaboration. Read more in this editorial from Drs. Zimmerman and Narain! https://ajph.aphapublications.org//10.2105/AJPH.2018.304430