received the 2019 Paul Cornely Award at the annual Health Activist Dinner, and the 2019 Faculty Teaching Award from FSPH’s UCLA Public Health Student Association.
received the Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award from the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health and was elected president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
received the Long-Term Excellence Award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association and delivered the Lowell Reed Lectureship for the Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association.
and the California Health Interview Survey, housed at the Fielding School's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, received AcademyHealth’s 2019 Health Services Research Impact Award. The annual award "recognizes research that has had a significant impact on health and health care."
received the National Academy of Medicine Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health and the Psychiatric Education and Research Foundation’s Advocate Award.
received the 2018 Aging & Public Health Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Public Health Association and the inaugural Mario Gutierrez Award on Migrant Health from the Health Initiative of the Americas.
was named the 2018 Faculty Member of the Year by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, and was appointed to the peer review committee for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.
was reappointed as the congressional appointee to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and was appointed to the Board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research. She received the Career Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award from the UCLA Academic Senate.
