Dr. Nadereh Pourat, Ph.D., is the associate Center director and the director of the Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. She is also a professor of health policy and management at the UCLA…

Dr. Emmeline Chuang’s research focuses on how the organization and management of health and human services affects service access and quality of care, particularly for underserved populations. Her research has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the…

Kristen Choi, PhD, PMHNP-BC, FAAN is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and health services researcher. Dr. Choi studies health services and policy approaches to mental health, trauma, and health disparities among children and other vulnerable populations.…

Dr. Arthur Cho's laboratory utilizes chemical approaches to conduct research in biotransformation reactions and their role in the actions for foreign compounds such as drugs and environmental chemical species. The biotransformation studies investigate mechanisms of…

Dr. Liwei Chen is a Professor (tenured) in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.  Dr. Chen’s research mainly research area is cardiometabolic disease epidemiology, including the etiology and prevention of obesity, diabetes, and…

Dr. Randall Kuhn (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999) is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health among vulnerable populations. He is an expert in survey design, longitudinal analysis and counterfactual research design. In the field…

Roshan Bastani, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and Co-Director of the Center for Cancer Prevention…

Sudipto Banerjee, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and in the Department of Statistics & Data Science with an affiliate appointment in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. His research expertise includes Bayesian inference…

Dr. Krause is the Director of the NIOSH Southern California Education and Research Center and Professor Emeriti in Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA. Before his appointment at UCLA, Dr. Krause has been associate professor in residence in the Division of Occupational…

Dr. Kelika Konda is based in Lima, Peru and her research focuses on strategies to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) within the local social and epidemiologic context. In 2013, she received a K01 from the NIMH to study relationships between gay…

Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante is a Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy & Management and serves as Faculty Research Director at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. The primary focus of his research has…

Dr. Robert Brook is Professor of Medicine, and Health Policy and Management. He also directs the Clinical Scholars Program and is a Corporate Fellow at RAND and the Director of RAND's Health Sciences Program. Dr. Brook teaches a course entitled, "Quality of Care" in the…

Dr. Timothy Brewer is Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and of Medicine, and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

He previously served as the Director of Global Health…

Dr. Brian D. Bradbury, MA, DSC, is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Director in the Center for Observational Research at Amgen, Inc. leading the epidemiologic research program for medications used in the treatment of patients…

Dr. Alexandra Binder is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and an Assistant Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center. Dr. Binder received her Bachelor of Arts in…

Dr. Barbara Berman's research focuses on tobacco prevention among high risk adolescents and young adults, low-income multi-ethnic populations, and deaf and hard of hearing youth. Berman also works on developing effective cancer prevention and control programming, with a…

Dr. Beltrán-Sánchez’s research focuses on the demography of health and aging. He has written on health patterns and trends in low- and middle-income countries; on aging in high-income countries including issues about compression of morbidity; on the links between early…