With COVID-19 still very much present, Dr. Shira Shafir, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor of epidemiology and community health sciences, describes the start of the new school year in simple terms: “I think back-to-school is going to be a…

Dr. Frederick Zimmerman serves on the Healthcare Expenditure Collaborative, a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement.

Dr. Frederick Zimmerman was named a 2019 expert member of the WHO’s Strategic Meeting on Social Determinants of Health.

Dr. Frederick Zimmerman was named president of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences.

Dr. Elizabeth (Becky) Yano was appointed a principal investigator for the PROVEN Coordinating Hub to Promote Research Optimizing Veterancentric EHR Networks.

Dr. Kenneth Wells was appointed chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Evaluate Specific Programs in the Comprehensive Addiction/Recovery Act.

Dr. Kenneth Wells received the 2019 Department of Psychiatry’s Lifetime Teaching Award from UCLA.

Dr. Kenneth Wells received the 2019 Innovator Award from UCSF.

Dr. Kenneth Wells received the 2019 Advocate Award from the Psychiatric Education and Research Foundation.

Dr. Robert Weiss was named a fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Dr. May Wang received the 2019 Food & Nutrition Section Excellence in Dietary Guidance Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Dr. Steven P. Wallace received the 2019 Arthur Cherkin Award from the UCLA Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology.

Dr. Dawn Upchurch was elected to serve as section councilor for the Integrative, Complementary and Traditional Health Practices Section of the American Public Health Association.

Dr. Steven Teutsch contributed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Science Framework.

Stephanie Taylor was appointed member of the NIH HEAL Initiative Scientific Review Panel.

Stephanie Taylor was appointed member of L.A. Care’s Technical Advisory Committee.

Stephanie Taylor was appointed member of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program’s Chronic Pain Management Research Program Programmatic Panel.

Stephanie Taylor was appointed chair of the VA Scientific Merit Review Panel on Sociodeterminants of Health.

Stephanie Taylor received the 2019 Health Services Research & Development Health System Impact Award.

Dr. Paula Tavrow was selected as a winner in the WHO/IBP and Knowledge SUCCESS call for implementation experiences on high impact practices in family planning.