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Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center partners with other organizations to help Los Angeles-area women by bringing classes to locations convenient for them.

El Sereno Middle School celebrates grand opening of UCLA Health Sound Body Sound Mind fitness center.

Event at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs served as a way to one day help diversify the ranks of urban planners.

Students and city leaders weigh policy options regarding homelessness during annual UCLA Luskin Day at Los Angeles City Hall.

UCLA students helping teach former gang members how to resolve their conflicts peacefully find themselves transformed by the experience.

UCLA Blueprint: L.A. County struggled to help its most vulnerable, then learned some lessons.

Los Angeles Incubator Consortium brings together graduates of UCLA Law, Loyola Law School and Southwestern Law School to gain skills necessary to work in underserved communities.

UCLA history professor Kelly Lytle Hernández’s Million Dollar Hoods project that maps the costs of incarceration in Los Angeles is now housed at the center.

Three in five of the poorest, sickest residents in L.A. County opted out of a managed health care program meant to improve their access to health services.

As part of the JusticeCorps program, which UCLA helped form in 2004 with the L.A. Superior Court, students make sure clients know their rights, assist with forms and help with translations.

Results of UCLA report are the first from a national effort to reform public hospitals.

The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs social welfare department provides lessons in social work and a diversity of experiences to first-year medical students.

Despite initiatives launched by community groups, foundations and government agencies, unemployment and poverty have worsened in most areas of South Los Angeles.

The show marks 10 years of influential research from UCLA’s urban planning and architecture think tank.

More than 300 health care workers from UCLA Health volunteered their time and expertise at the free Care Harbor health clinic in Los Angeles.

The drought is highlighting disparities in the price of water that vary widely, depending on who is supplying it in this archaic and complex water delivery system serving Southern California.

UCLA urban planners create an interactive mapping tool to analyze whether developments near Los Angeles light-rail and subway projects displace people.

Two urban planners at UCLA have taken a close look at the effects of cultural revitalization on two adjoining, but vastly different areas in downtown Los Angeles.

Sixteen urban planning students from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs worked on a research project to assist and inform Mexico City officials and their consultant on ways to improve life in Tacubaya.

A new study conducted by researchers in UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs finds decline in giving since 2006 amid urgent and rising need in Los Angeles.

Over many years, UCLA researchers have learned that families change their behavior when they get live interactive training sessions with the familiar staff at their child’s Head Start school.

A new UCLA study examining child health in the context of asset poverty indicates that household wealth is linked more closely to health disparity than income or education level.

With support from the UC Global Food Initiative, Savannah Gardner and Tyler Watson are leading efforts to bring fresh produce and healthy eating to cash-strapped Bruins.

The screenwriter and former reporter was the keynote speaker for the two-day inauguration of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.

Robinson shared the story of her awakening to the global impact of climate change on the world's impoverished countries and communities at a lecture hosted by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Tuesday.