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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Jonathan E. Fielding papers
Creator:
Fielding, Jonathan E.
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.1243
Physical Description:
96.8 Linear Feet
(239 boxes, 6 flat boxes, 3 cartons)
Date (inclusive): circa 1955-2017
Abstract: Jonathan Evan Fielding is a
Distinguished Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Jonathan
and Karin Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. Dr. Fielding is also a Professor of
Pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Born to parents Robert and
Gertrude on October 4, 1942, Dr. Fielding grew up right outside of New York City in
Mamaroneck, New York. The Jonathan Fielding papers consist of materials related to
Fielding's administrative work in public health departments and corporations; management of
or contributions to task forces, advisory committees, and foundations; leadership in
community, county, state, and national programs in health reform and enhancement; teaching
in public health policy and management; publications, presentations, and interviews; and
awards, tributes, and memorabilia. Formats of materials include publications, presentations,
publicity and media, project and grant records, correspondence, subject files,
entrepreneurial and business files, and education files.
Physical Location: Portions of the collection stored
off-site. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. All requests to access
special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on
this page. Box 214 stored on-site.
Language of Material: Materials are in English and
French.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All
other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not
hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Jonathan Fielding papers (Collection 1243). Louise M. Darling
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of
California, Los Angeles.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jonathan E. Fielding, 2018.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make
them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and
resources, competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of
preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts
more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to
national and local standards and best practices.
Processed by Mario A. Gallardo and Alex Nguyen in the Center for Primary Research and
Training (CFPRT), under the supervision of Russell Johnson and Courtney Dean, 2018-2019.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
8879205
Jonathan Evan Fielding is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Health Policy and
Management in the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. Dr. Fielding
is also a Professor of Pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Born to parents Robert and Gertrude on October 4, 1942, Dr. Fielding grew up outside New
York City in Mamaroneck, New York. The family changed their surname from Finkelstein to
Fielding while Dr. Fielding was in college.
Dr. Fielding attended Williams College in Massachusetts where he majored in French (BA).
Dr. Fielding spent a year in France during his undergraduate career. After graduating from
Williams in 1964, he attended Harvard University. At Harvard, Dr. Fielding earned his MD, as
well as an MA in the history of science. Dr. Fielding graduated from Harvard in 1969 and
then conducted his residency at Boston's Children's Hospital, where he finished in 1971. In
1971, Dr. Fielding returned to Harvard to earn his Masters in Public Health (MPH) in the
executive MPH program. In 1972, Dr. Fielding worked at Georgetown Hospital as a Pediatric
Resident, earning a specialty in Pediatrics.
While at Georgetown, Dr. Fielding also worked for the federal government in several
capacities. From 1971 to 1973, he served as the Principal Medical Services National Officer
for the Job Corps within the Department of Labor. During the same period of time, he also
served as a Special Assistant to the Director in the capacity of Director of Peer Review in
the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. From 1974 to 1975, Dr. Fielding was
promoted to the Director of the Health Services Administration within the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare.
In 1975, then Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis appointed Dr. Fielding the Commissioner
of Public Health in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 1977, Dr. Fielding attended the
Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, earning his Masters in
Business Administration (MBA). He ended his tenure as the Commissioner of Health in
Massachusetts in 1979.
In 1979, Dr. Fielding moved to California to become a Professor of Public Health and
Medicine at UCLA. He co-founded and co-directed the Center for Health Enhancement Education
and Research at UCLA when he arrived in 1979. He also co-directed the Center for Healthier
Children, Families, and Communities at UCLA from 1995-2008. At UCLA, Dr. Fielding researched
workplace and corporate health plans, national health policies and systems, maternal and
child health, community report cards, and smoking. He continues to be a professor in both
the public health and medical schools at UCLA until the time of this writing (2019). Dr.
Fielding became a Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medicine in 2011. In 2012,
Dr. Fielding and his wife Karin bought the rights to name the School of Public Health at
UCLA. After their donation, the school was renamed to the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School
of Public Health.
In 1983, Dr. Fielding founded US Corporate Health Management Incorporated, a consulting
company focused on helping corporations manage their health care policies. This consulting
company was an extension of Dr. Fielding's research into corporate and workplace health
plans. The success of US Corporate Health Management Incorporated caught the attention of
Johnson & Johnson. In 1986 Johnson & Johnson acquired US Corporate Health Management
Incorporated to become Johnson & Johnson Health Management.
As part of the acquisition, Johnson & Johnson appointed Dr. Fielding Senior Vice
President of the newly minted Johnson & Johnson Health Management. In this role, Dr.
Fielding oversaw the implementation of corporate health plans, including insurance plans and
corporate wellness plans, for major corporations. In 1990, Johnson & Johnson appointed
Dr. Fielding into a concurrent role as Senior Vice President of Health Policy to advocate
for changes to federal health policies. Dr. Fielding left Johnson & Johnson in 1993.
In 1996, Dr. Fielding joined the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services in the
positions of Acting Health Officer and Senior Policy Advisor to the Director. He was then
promoted to Director and Health Officer of the Los Angeles County Department of Health
Services in 1998, where he served as the director of the Department of Health Services,
which later became the Department of Public Health. During his tenure, Dr. Fielding oversaw
the department's response to bioterrorism in the wake of 9/11. He is perhaps best known for
instituting the food safety grade placards seen around Los Angeles County in every
restaurant and food establishment. Dr. Fielding ended his tenure at the Los Angeles County
Department of Public Health in 2014.
In his personal business, Dr. Fielding owned and operated Retina Gallery, a fine art
gallery, during the 1970s. At the same time, Dr. Fielding purchased a stake in the Boston
Phoenix, a weekly alternative newspaper in the Boston metropolitan area. When Dr. Fielding
moved to California, he sold his ownership in both entities.
In his personal life, Dr. Fielding married his wife Karin in 1976. They have two sons,
Andrew and Preston. Dr. Fielding has won countless awards and has received many recognitions
for his work in the field of public health. Dr. Fielding is also a prolific author with
hundreds of author credits on various peer-reviewed articles published in journals and
edited volumes. Dr. Fielding's career spans over 40 years of public service and private
business. He continues to write and publish on issues of public health.
This collection consists of materials related to Dr. Jonathan E. Fielding's (JEF) academic,
public service, and private careers. Materials include published and unpublished papers
authored by JEF, including some on workplace health policies, bioterrorism, and food grade
placards. Other materials include presentation materials, teaching materials from his time
at UCLA, professional correspondence related to his research and business interests,
personal business materials, and childhood ephemera. Topics covered by the material in this
collection include health care policies, federal level work, Los Angeles County Department
of Public Health operations, health prevention, art collection, tobacco use research,
maternal and child health, and community health care report cards. This collection also
includes approximately 24 floppy disks, 25 CDs, and audiovisual materials that JEF produced
over the course of his career. This collection spans JEF's more than 40-year career in
public health.
This collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Early years and education, 1955-2017
- Subseries 1.1: Biographical and pre-college years, 1955-2017
- Subseries 1.2: Williams College, 1960-1964
- Subseries 1.3: Harvard, 1963-1970
- Subseries 1.4: Wharton School of Business, 1975-1977
- Series 2: Teaching and university work, 1965-2010
- Subseries 2.1: Non-UCLA teaching, 1965-1999
- Subseries 2.2: UCLA School of Public Health, 1976-2010
- Subseries 2.3: Project proposals and grants, 1979-2000
- Series 3: Public sector work, 1970-2014
- Subseries 3.1: Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health, 1974-1979
- Subseries 3.2: Los Angeles County Department of Health and Department of Public Health, 1970-2014
- Subseries 3.3: California state-level work, 1979-1982
- Subseries 3.4: Federal-level work, 1972-2014
- Series 4: Publications, 1968-2016
- Series 5: Private sector work
- Subseries 5.1: U.S. Health Care Management and Consulting, 1977-1998
- Subseries 5.2: Johnson & Johnson, 1976-1999
- Subseries 5.3: Work on foundations and nonprofits, 1979-2010
- Subseries 5.4: Personal business, 1969-1986
- Series 6: Speeches, correspondence, and research, 1974-2003
- Subseries 6.1: Speeches and presentations, 1974-2003
- Subseries 6.2: Correspondence, 1979-2000
- Subseries 6.3: Research and subjects of interests, 1975-1997
- Series 7: Media and awards, 1964-2015
- Subseries 7.1: Media, 1973-1999
- Subseries 7.2: Awards, 1964-2015
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS UNPROCESSED AUDIO, AUDIOVISUAL, and DIGITAL MATERIALS: Materials will require
assessment and may need further processing for safe access. All requests to access special
collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this
page.
Lester Breslow papers (LSC 2246)
Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Public health
Health promotion
Health education
Fielding, Jonathan E. -- Archives
University of California, Los Angeles. School of Public Health. Faculty --
Archives