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Jonathan E. Fielding, M.D., M.P.H. is Director of Public Health and Health Officer for Los Angeles County responsible for all public health functions including surveillance and control of both communicable and non-communicable diseases, and of health protection (including against bioterrorism) for the County’s 10 million residents. He directs a staff of 3,600 with an annual budget exceeding $650 million within the Department of Health Services. He is also a Commissioner of the First 5 L.A. Commission, which distributes over $100 million per year to improve health and development of children 0-5.
He chairs the US Community Preventive Services Task Force. He was also a founding member of the US Clinical Preventive Services Task Force. Dr. Fielding is also a Professor in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA and has authored over 160 peer-reviewed articles, chapters and editorials on a wide range of public health and preventive medicine issues. He has been particularly involved in tobacco control efforts at the local, State and national Level. He teaches the course Determinants of Health in the School of Public Health. He is Editor of Annual Review of Public Health, Chairman of the national Partnership for Prevention and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine.
Formerly Dr. Fielding was Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health and was a Vice President of Johnson & Johnson. He received his medical and public health degrees from Harvard University, and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School of Business. | 