Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA (Chair)

Elected to Task Force: 1996

Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA is the chair of the Community Preventive Services Task Force and was a founding member of the U.S. Clinical Preventive Task Force. Dr. Fielding is currently the director of Public Health and Health Officer, Los Angeles County; distinguished professor of Health Services and Pediatrics, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; and a commissioner of the Los Angeles County Children and Families First–Proposition 10 Commission.

Dr. Fielding is also a director of the American Legacy Foundation. Dr. Fielding has certification from the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He served as president and regent for the American College of Preventive Medicine. He has authored or coauthored more than 175 original research articles and chapters on various aspects of public health, preventive medicine, and health services. Dr. Fielding is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and has served on their Population Health and Public Health Practice Board. Dr. Fielding is the editor of the Annual Review of Public Health and a presidentially appointed member of the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health to the National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council.

Dr. Fielding received his MD with honors from Harvard University School of Medicine and a Master of Public Health in health services administration and health economics from the Harvard University School of Public Health. Dr. Fielding received his MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Service on international/national research, practice or policy boards or committees

• Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
• Member of the Board of Directors, The American Legacy Foundation
• Chair, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives
• Member, Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health to the National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council
• Former Commissioner of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

National research or practice awards

• Sedgwick Medal, for Distinguished Service in Public Health, American Public Health Association, 2006
• UCLA Medal from University of California Los Angeles, 2009
• Milton and Ruth Roemer Prize, for Creative Local Public Health Work, American Public Health Association, 2003
• Distinguished Service Award, for Outstanding Service to the American College of Preventive Medicine, 2000
• Porter Prize, for National Impact on Improving the Health of Americans, 1994
• Outstanding Alumnus Award, Harvard School of Public Health, 2006
• Investing in Information Award by the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, Inc., 1997
• Beverlee A. Myers Award for Excellence in Public Health, California Department of Public Health, 2007
• The Lester Breslow Distinguished Lectureship, University of California Los Angeles, 2009
• Winston Crouch Award for Innovation in Government, The American Society for Public Administration, 2009

Service on recent Community Guide reviews

1. Campbell CA, Hahn RA, Elder R, Brewer R, Chattopadhyay S, Fielding J, Naimi TS, Toomey T, Briana Lawrence B, Middleton JC, Task Force on Community Preventive Services. The effectiveness of limiting alcohol outlet density as a means of reducing excessive alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harms. Am J Prev Med 2009;37(6):556-69.
2. Elder RW, Lawrence B, Ferguson A, Naimi TS, Brewer RD, Chattopadhyay SK, Toomey TL, Fielding JE, Task Force on Community Preventive Services. The effectiveness of tax policy interventions for reducing excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. Am J Prev Med 2010;38(2):217-29.
3. Hahn RA, Kuzara JL, Elder R, Brewer R, Chattopadhyay S, Fielding J, Naimi TS, Toomey T, Middleton JC, Lawrence B, Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Effectiveness of policies restricting hours of alcohol sales in preventing excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. Am J Prev Med 2010;39(6):590-604.
4. Middleton JC, Hahn RA, Kuzara JL, Elder R, Brewer R, Chattopadhyay S, Fielding J, Naimi TS, Toomey T, Lawrence B, Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Effectiveness of policies maintaining or restricting days of alcohol sales on excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. Am J Prev Med 2010;39(6):575-89.
5. Rammohan V, Hahn RA, Elder R, Brewer R, Fielding J, Naimi TS, Toomey TL, Chattopadhyay SK, Zometa C, Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Effects of dram shop liability and enhanced overservice law enforcement initiatives on excessive alcohol consumption and related harms: two Community Guide systematic reviews. Am J Prev Med 2011;41(3):334-43.
6. Anderson LM, St Charles J, Fullilove MT,Scrimshaw SC, Fielding JE, Normand J, Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Providing affordable family housing and reducing residential segregation by income: a systematic review. Am J Prev Med 2003;24(3S):47-67.
7. Anderson LM, Shinn CM, Fullilove MT, Scrimshaw SC, Fielding JE, Normand J, Carande-Kulis VG, Task Force on Community Preventive Services. The effectiveness of early childhood development programs: a systematic review. Am J Prev Med 2003;24(3S):32-46.
8. Anderson LM, Fielding JE, Fullilove MT, Scrimshaw SC, Carande-Kulis VG, Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Methods for conducting systematic reviews of the evidence of effectiveness and economic efficiency of interventions to promote healthy social environments. Am J Prev Med 2003;24(3S):25-31.
9. Anderson LM, Scrimshaw SC, Fullilove MT, Fielding JE, Task Force on the Community Preventive Services. The Community Guide's model for linking the social environment to health. Am J Prev Med 2003;24(3S):12-20.
10. Hopkins DP, Husten CG, Fielding JE, Rosenquist JN, Westphal LL. Evidence reviews and recommendations on interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: a summary of selected guidelines. Am J Prev Med 2001;20(2S):67-87.