Jonathan Fielding
| Jonathan Fielding | |
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| Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health | |
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Assumed office 4 April 2008 |
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| Health Officer for Los Angeles County | |
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| Born | 1942 (age 75) |
| Spouse(s) | Karin Fielding |
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| Occupation | Physician and professor |
Jonathan Evan Fielding M.D., M.P.H., M.A., M.B.A. (born 1942) is the former Director/Health Officer of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA in the Fielding School of Public Health and the Geffen School of Medicine. He is the founder and Co-Director of the School of Public Health’s Center for Health Advancement. The Center has expertise in forecasting and modeling future health and analyzing the health impact of policies and programs in non-health sectors such as education, transportation, and natural resources.
As Director of one of the largest health departments in the United States, Fielding oversaw public health activities, including those for environmental health, disease control, health education, health assessment, and chronic diseases. During his over 16 years tenure, Fielding led efforts to develop plans to deal with emergencies related to bioterrorism, pandemic flu, and other emerging diseases and conditions. He also called attention to the underlying health determinants: the physical and social environments in which we live. He was responsible for implementing the restaurant grading system which has been widely emulated. Fielding also served as Commissioner and vice-chair and chair, of the First 5 Los Angeles Los Angeles Commission, whose mission is to improve health and development of children 5 years of age and under.
Fielding has been a founding member of a number of national task forces that assess best evidence and make recommendations to improve the health of the public. These include the U.S. Clinical Preventive Services Task Force and the U.S. Community Preventive Services Task Force, which he has chaired for over a decade. Fielding has published on a wide range of public health as well as preventive medicine issues. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles, chapters and editorials. He has served as Associate Editor and then Editor of the Annual Review of Public Health over a 35 year period. Fielding is the a Board Member and former chair of the American Legacy Foundation, and also former Chair of the national Partnership for Prevention. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine and the former President of the American College of Preventive Medicine. In 2006 he received the American Public Health Association (APHA)’s oldest and most prestigious award, the Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Public Health. In 2008, he was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt to chair the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on the 2020 Health Objectives for the Nation. He was also appointed to the California Department of Public Health Advisory Committee. In April 2009 Fielding received the UCLA Medal, the university's highest honor, for his work as an innovator, leader and public health visionary. https://ph.ucla.edu/news/press-release/2011/mar/jonathan-fielding-public-health-leader-awarded-prestigious-ucla-medal In January 2011 he was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health, becoming one of the 13 founding members of the group.[4] In 2012 he received the Fries Prize for pioneering work in identifying and applying effective worksite and public prevention programs and policies that have improved health for million of Americans. The prize was given by the James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation. http://www.friesfoundation.org/prizerecip.html He was also named 2012 Honorary Fellow of the Society for Public Health Education for his visionary leadership and lifetime of contributions to public health.
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