THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES without health insurance rose from 7.9 in 2017 to 8.5 in 2018 — the first year-to-year increase since 2009, just before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law. But at a time when the ACA has been…

Avram Kaplan, MPH has taught at FSPH since 2008. Previously, he was Director of the San Francisco General Trauma Center and CEO at some of the largest medical groups in Southern California. He was the key medical group administrator in creating the St. Jude Heritage…

Dr. Moore is an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics with research interests in biomedical data science and statistical genetics. He focuses on the development, evaluation, and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for developing predictive…

Bijetri Bose is a senior research analyst at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center. She is an applied microeconomist with a research interest in the evaluation of the impact of national legislations and programmatic interventions on the education, health, and gender norms,…

Daniela Abrahamian, MBA

Daniela Abrahamian is the Program Director for The Poppy Project at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. The initiative focuses on advancing public health and equity by centering wellbeing in programming and development to foster…

Carolina Cormack Orellana, ASW (she/her) is the interventionist for two PrEP-related research studies with UCLA's Center for LGBTQ Advocacy, Research and Health. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bucknell University and a Master of Social Work from University of Illinois…

Valerie has a BS in Nutritional Science from Cal State University Los Angeles and recently received her Master’s in Public Health, with a concentration in Community Health Sciences, from UCLA. She has been working with the VTA as a since June 2020 as a Skills Lab…

Parneet Ghuman, MPH, is the data access center coordinator for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). Ghuman is responsible for administering access to survey data from CHIS, organizing Data Disclosure Review Committee meetings, and providing technical assistance…

Joelle Wolstein, PhD, MPP, MA is a research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and Lecturer in the Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management. Her research has focused broadly on social and environmental determinants…

Weihao Zhou, MS, is a senior public administration analyst for the Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program. Currently he supports data management and analysis for multiple projects, including the US Health Research Services Administration Evaluation (HRSA),…

Dr. Malan currently serves as Program Manager for two public health training and workforce development programs at FSPH: the California Pathways into Public Health Fellowship Program and the CDC Lewis UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program. In…

Laurel Grzesik-Mourad is a Policy Analyst at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center. She received her BA in the Study of Religion and a minor in Arabic & Islamic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and completed her Master of Public Policy at the…

D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, PhD, MPH, is a research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Her research agenda primarily focuses on the structural and social determinants related to inequities in mental health, access to mental health care, and economic…

Nicholas Perry is a Senior Research Analyst and the Outreach Coordinator at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center. In addition to research work on work and family, education, poverty, and aging policy issues, Nicholas coordinates WORLD’s global research and dissemination…

Gonzalo Moreno is a senior analyst at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, where he is a database lead on WORLD’s constitutions and child marriage projects, and also coordinates the production of all of WORLD’s policy data for presentation and download on our website.…

Max Hechter received an MPH in epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in 1994. Max started working for the UCLA MACS (now called the MWCCS) in 1994, primarily focused on ascertainment and confirmation of clinical outcomes of interest of this cohort,…

Alison K. Herrmann, PhD is Associate Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity (Equity Center) and Research Scientist at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is also Co-Director of Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) in the UCLA…

Sean Tan (he/him) is a Senior Public Administration Analyst at UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. His primary duties as a researcher for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) include monitoring and evaluating health insurance coverage and access to care in…

Irish Del Rosario is the project manager for Dr. Ritz' lab, including the Parkinson's Disease Environmental and Genetics study, the Parkinson's Disease Registry Project, and the Human Placenta Project at UCLA. She graduated from the UCLA FSPH Masters program in Public…