Faculty Honors & Service

received the 2021 Sherman Mellinkoff Award from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

was named to the MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” List.

was named one of the world’s most influential scientific researchers by the Clarivate Web of Science Group, and was appointed to the Health Effects Institute Review Committee.

was appointed to the UCLA Academic Senate Council on Academic Personnel and the Southern Indian Health Center Advisory Board, as well as being named an honorary member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.

was named one of the world’s most influential scientific researchers by the Clarivate Web of Science Group.

was named one of the world’s most influential scientific researchers by the Clarivate Web of Science Group.

received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Black Women Physicians, and the Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 from the American Library Association’s Choice magazine for a book, “Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional,” that she co-edited; and was an editorial adviser and guest editor of a special COVID-19 edition of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal.

served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use, and Wellbeing in STEMM Undergraduate and Graduate Education.

was named vice chair of the Los Angeles County Public Health Commission.