Professor, Health Services and Pediatrics
UCLA School of Public Health
Department of Health Services
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
(310) 206-1141
Fax: (310) 825-3868
E-mail: Jfieldin@ucla.edu

Jonathan Fielding is a Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities. Dr. Fielding serves as Director of Public Health and Health Officer for Los Angeles County where he is responsible for the full range of public health activities for ten million county residents. Dr. Fielding teaches Determinants of Health and participates as faculty lecturer in several of the Department courses. He received both his M.D., M.A. (History of Science) and M.P.H. from Harvard University, and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business Administration. His areas of expertise include the development of clinical preventive services guidelines, prevention economics and financing, and health promotion for children, adults and families in community, clinical and occupational settings. As the founding Co-Director of the Center for Health Enhancement, Education and Research, he provided the first comprehensive university-based center to focus on clinical and worksite prevention opportunities. He formerly served as the Founding Board Member, Chairman of the Board and member of the Executive Committee of The California Wellness Foundation, the largest U.S. Foundation devoted to disease prevention and health promotion, and is among the 50 largest U.S. Foundations. Further, he was a founding member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and is Vice-Chair, Community Preventive Services Task Force. He is immediate past President of the American College of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Fielding's awards include the Porter Prize, given for his national impact on improving the lives of Americans; and membership in the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine. He is the Author of over 150 original scientific articles and chapters, Editor of Annual Review of Public Health, and Associate Editor of the textbook, Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Selected Publications

Fielding, J.E., Corporate Health Management, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1984, 416 pp.

Fielding, J.E., Williams, C.A., "Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States: A Review and Recommendation for Clinicians and Research Needs." Am J. Prev. Med., 7:47-52 (1991).

Fielding, J.E., Knight, K.K., Goetzel, R.Z., Laouri, M., "Utilization of Preventive Health Services by an Employed Population." J. Occup. Med., 33:985-990 (1991).

Fielding, J.E., Rice, T., "Can Managed Competition Solve the Problems of Market Failure?" Health Aff., 12 (Supplement): 216-228 (1993).

Fielding, J.E., Lancry, P-J, "LESSONS FROM FRANCE "VIVE LA DIFFERENCE" The French Health Care System and U.S. Health System Reform." JAMA, 270:748-756 (1993).

Fielding, J.E., Cumberland, W.G., Pettitt, L., "Immunization Status of Children of Employees in a Large Corporation-1992." JAMA, 271:525-530 (1994).

Halfon, N., Fielding, J.E., "Commentary: Where is the Health in Health System Reform?" JAMA, 272:1292-1296 (1994).

Fielding, J.E., Mason, T., Knight, K., Klesges, R., Pelletier, K.R., "A Randomized Trial of the Impact Worksite Cholesterol Reduction." Am J. Prev. Med., 11:120-123 (1995).

Stokols, D., Pelletier, K.R., Fielding, J.E., "Integration of Medical Care and Worksite Health Promotion." JAMA, 273:1136-1142 (1995).

Fielding, J.E., Halfon, N., Sutherland, C., "Community Report Cards", Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 46(28):647-655 (1997).

Fielding, J.E., Editor, Annual Review of Public Health, , Vol. 20, 1999.