UCLA FSPH Department of Community Health Sciences

Congratulations to professor of community health sciences May Wang who was selected as the winner of the 2019 Excellence in Dietary Guidance Award by the Food & Nutrition Section.

Congratulations to professor of community health sciences Dawn Upchurch who has been elected to serve a three year term as section councilor for the Integrative, Complimentary and Traditional Health Practices Section of

ALUMS - Please join us for FSPH Alumni Night in DTLA on Thursday, October 24th!

FSPH Alumni Night in Downtown LA Giving to UCLA

UCLA is No. 1 public college in 2020 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranking This is the third consecutive year UCLA has held this distinction in these rankings, which focus on student success.

Congratulation to Steven Wallace -- professor in ’s UCLA FSPH Department of Community Health Sciences and an associate director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research -- who received the 2018 Aging & Public Health Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Public Health Association and the inaugural Mario Gutierrez Award on Migrant Health from the Health Initiative of the Americas. Learn more about Professor Wallace’s work here https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/wallace and visit https://ph.ucla.edu/honors for more FSPH faculty members’ honors & service.

Congratulations to Robert Kim-Farley, professor-in-residence of epidemiology and community health sciences, for receiving an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who, and the Charles DeGraw Advocacy Award from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association. Learn more about Professor Kim-Farley’s work here https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/kim-farley and visit https://ph.ucla.edu/honors for more FSPH faculty members’ honors & service.

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Congratulations to Gilbert Gee, professor in the UCLA FSPH Department of Community Health Sciences, who along with several former FSPH students, received the 2018 Award for Innovative Public Health Curriculum from Delta Omega. Separately, Gee serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Informing the Selection of Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2030. Learn more about Professor Gee’s work here https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/gee and visit https://ph.ucla.edu/honors for more FSPH faculty members’ honors & service.

Application Deadline is coming up next Wednesday, June 26th!

Students: Are you interested in improving your storytelling skills? Be sure to check out the free 2019 Digital Storytelling Workshop. Application deadline: Wednesday June 26! ph.ucla.edu/student-stories

FSPH staff are changemakers, at work and beyond. Gloria Greengard, administrative specialist at the UCLA FSPH Department of Community Health Sciences, volunteers with the Reading to Kids program at Esperanza Elementary. UCLA