Health Economics

Dr. Jack Needleman, PhD, FAAN, is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health. He teaches courses in health policy in the master’s programs and research design and research methods to doctoral and MS students, and has previously taught program and policy evaluation and health politics. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Dr. Ninez A. Ponce, MPP, PhD, is Professor and Chair in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management, Director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and was Associate Director of UCLA's Asian American Studies Center (2011-2013). She also devised the rationale and implementation of Asian ethnic oversamples and the cultural and linguistic adaptation of the survey. She teaches courses in applied research methods, health policy and health economics.