School of Public Health

Our mission is to improve the health of the most vulnerable populations in California and worldwide.

Digitizing Reproductive Health Education

January 16, 2020

In Memoriam: Leonard J. Duhl

January 14, 2020

Governor Gavin Newsom Names Richard Scheffler to Healthy California for All Commission

December 20, 2019

Designing Workplaces for Health, Well-Being and Productivity

December 17, 2019

Bridging the Bay and Getting to Zero: The 23rd International AIDS Conference

December 17, 2019

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Experience Transformational Health Research

The determinants and consequences of global changes profoundly shape population health. Many of these changes have long been underway, including climate change, food systems transformations, infectious disease pandemics, and population changes such as migration, urbanization and aging.

Africa’s Western Sahel on the brink of crisis, researchers warn

Without investment in family planning, girls’ education, agriculture, and security, the region’s political and economic systems could collapse.

A person holding a Macrobrachium river prawn

How fat prawns can save lives

Kicking China’s smoking habit

Our faculty and students conduct research that emphasizes the social determinants of health—how factors like socioeconomic status, race and place determine susceptibility to certain diseases and conditions—and how to use this knowledge to help communities implement changes that foster equality and social justice.

California bans poisonous agricultural pesticide

The decision was informed by a growing body of research linking chlorpyrifos exposure to harmful health effects, including neurodevelopmental disorders.

A large group of Coca-Cola red cans stacked in a supermarket

Do soda taxes work?

Workers pick strawberries from a field in the Salinas Valley, California USA

Cleaning up America’s Salad Bowl

Unlocking the truth behind infectious disease pandemics, social determinants of health, antibiotic resistance and other public health concerns often requires harnessing big data and technological innovation.