Hamid Arabzadeh has two graduate degrees in Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health Sciences from McGill University. He is the founding Principal of HRA Environmental Consultants Inc. and teaches graduate industrial hygiene and occupational health classes for the…

Dr. Richard F. Ambrose is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. He received his B.S. from UC Irvine and his Ph.D. from UCLA. He spent seven years at the Marine Science…

Dr. Ko teaches in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. As a clinician, Ko is double board-certified surgeon with a practice focusing on patients with colorectal cancer. At UCLA, he is the Robert and Kelly Day…

Neal Halfon, MD, MPH is founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, and also directs the Child and Family Health Leadership and Training Program in the…

Dr. Ron Halbert has over three decades of experience working with healthcare systems, including industry, nonprofit, and government entities. His primary area of expertise lies in integrating…

Sander Greenland is Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics at UCLA. He received honors Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mathematics from the University of California Berkeley where he was Regent's and National Science Foundation Fellow in Mathematics,…

Dr. Greene developed a passion for Epidemiology while earning her Master of Public Health at UCLA. After spending the first 20 years of professional life as a high-risk obstetrics and gynecology research sonographer, she found that the discipline of Epidemiology would…

Onyebuchi ("Onyi") Arah, MD, MSc, MPH, DSc, PhD, is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health and an Affiliated Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science. He has been an Associate Dean at UCLA's Division of Graduate Education.…

Lara J. Cushing’s research focuses on social inequalities in exposure to environmental hazards and the cumulative impacts of environmental and social stressors to health. She has assessed the health consequences of environmental and climate-related exposures for pregnant…

My long-term interests are in the areas of finite population sampling and biomedical applications of stochastic processes. My research in sampling falls under the heading of model based estimation, and it shows that relying solely on the sampling plan can lead to very…

Dr. Crespi's research areas include cancer prevention and control, cancer epidemiology, cancer survivorship, obesity, nutrition, physical activity, health disparities, health psychology and quality of life. Her statistical methodology interests include design and…

Dr. Robert J. Kim-Farley currently serves as a Professor-in-Residence with joint appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

From 2004 to 2018, he served as the director of the…

Dr. Ron Brookmeyer serves as dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. In his research, Dr. Brookmeyer uses the tools of the statistical, informational and mathematical sciences to address…

Dr. Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia is Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at UCLA and a Senior Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation. She teaches the Politics of Health Policy (HS…

Emily K. Abel is a historian of medicine and public health. Her book, Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940 (Harvard University Press, 2000), was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2000. Her two books on the history of tuberculosis in Los…

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