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The HPV vaccine represented a breakthrough in the fight against cervical and other cancers, but immunization rates remain disappointingly low. FSPH researchers are teaming up with a major provider of care for low-income patients to test strategies to increase uptake.

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THE DISCOVERY IN THE 1980s linking the human papillomavirus (HPV) to nearly all cases of cervical cancer led to the groundbreaking development of a cancer-prevention vaccine, approved for use in females in 2006 and for males in 2009. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends that the HPV vaccine — which can prevent cervical, anal, vulvar, vaginal, penile and certain throat cancers, as well as genital warts — be offered routinely to adolescents and young adults ages 11-26. The vaccines are administered in two (ages 11-14 years) or three (age 15 or older) doses over the course of about 6-12 months.

But 12 years after the HPV vaccine was introduced, usage rates among adolescents remain disappointingly low, says Dr. Roshan Bastani, Fielding School professor, director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and director for disparities and community engagement in the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Nationally, in 2016, just 60 percent of 13-17 year olds had received the first dose of the vaccine, and only 43 percent had completed the series, according to CDC data.

Bastani attributes this in part to missteps in the way the vaccine was introduced. “The fact that it was initially promoted by the pharmaceutical industry and certain legislators raised suspicions among some people,” she says. “In addition, HPV is a sexually transmitted virus and there were early media reports of concern among parents that receipt of the vaccine would encourage their child to engage in sexual activity. Our own research and that of others around the country has shown that most parents do not hold such beliefs. We do know that many providers do not routinely recommend the vaccine to their patients, and that some providers are not comfortable having a discussion about a sexually transmitted virus with parents of young adolescents.”

To learn how health systems can effectively increase HPV vaccination rates, Bastani heads a $6.6 million, five-year study funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The study is being done through a partnership with the Northeast Valley Health Corporation (NEVHC), a multisite federally qualified health center (FQHC) serving a low-income population in Los Angeles’ San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. Bastani’s team — including Drs. Beth GlennAlison Herrmann (PhD ’12) and Catherine Crespi from the Fielding School and Debra Rosen and Dr. Gina Johnson from NEVHC — will compare three strategies:

  • A system-level strategy targeting physicians, staff and clinic-level policies, procedures and practices;
  • Text-messaging or mailing reminders to parents of NEVHC adolescent patients who are due for a dose of the HPV vaccine; and
  • A combination of the system-level and parent-reminder strategies. More than 17,000 HPV vaccine eligible adolescents will receive services at participating NEVHC clinics during the five-year study period. The impact of each strategy will be assessed through a review of NEVHC’s electronic medical records.

The team has been laying the groundwork for the current study for nearly a decade, beginning shortly after the vaccine was introduced. In partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, NEVHC and other community clinics, the FSPH researchers have conducted multiple studies to learn about parental knowledge and beliefs about the HPV vaccine and ways to improve vaccine uptake, and to pilot-test parent-reminder and system-level strategies.

This isn’t a vaccine to prevent a sexually transmitted disease; it’s a vaccine to prevent cancer.


Dr. Roshan Bastani

“We didn’t find major opposition to the vaccine; it was more that many parents didn’t know much about it,” says Glenn, an FSPH associate professor of health policy and management and associate director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. “Knowing that, we began to focus on developing interventions within health systems to make sure that parents were consistently offered the vaccine and were reminded when their adolescent was due.”

NEVHC, the community partner in the study, provides care to a primarily uninsured or publicly insured population in which only about one-third of the teens have received the full HPV vaccine series. “This is a great opportunity to better understand what interventions will work with our safety-net population,” says Rosen, NEVHC’s director of quality and health education. “We are excited to collaborate with the Fielding School and to share what we learn with other organizations.”

Rosen notes that many adolescent patients fail to return to the health center after getting the first dose of the HPV vaccine; to that end, the text and mail reminders will serve both to let parents know that their child is due and to reinforce the importance of completing the series.

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At Northeast Valley Health Corporation, both system-level changes and text and mail reminders are being tested as strategies to increase HPV vaccine rates among adolescent patients.

But for any organization with limited resources, it is important for strategies to be not just effective, but also efficient. “Convincing individual patients is very inefficient,” Bastani says. “We need to look at systematic changes that will serve patients today, tomorrow and into the future.” Among the system-level changes being emphasized at NEVHC is to view each visit by an adolescent patient, even if it’s for another purpose, as an opportunity to determine whether an HPV vaccine is due, and to offer it when it is. The NEVHC physicians are also being encouraged to make the HPV vaccine a more routine part of practice in the same way that vaccines are routinely ordered for younger-age children, and to de-emphasize that the virus is sexually transmitted. “This isn’t a vaccine to prevent a sexually transmitted disease; it’s a vaccine to prevent cancer,” Bastani says.

The UCLA-NEVHC study is funded through PCORI’s Pragmatic Clinical Studies initiative, which aims to produce results that are broadly applicable to a diverse range of patients and health care settings and can be more quickly adopted in routine clinical practice. “Making an impact on 17,000 patients in this one system is huge,” Bastani says. “But what we learn from this study will also have the potential to improve the prevention of HPV-related cancers in other low-resource clinical settings across the country. This is an extremely safe vaccine that prevents a horrible disease from ever developing. It is important that we learn how to ensure that it’s reaching the population.”

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Project Director, Data Informed Futures

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Lara Cushing
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Frederick Zimmerman
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Marielle Castaneda
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Laura Erskine
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Christina Ramirez
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Thomas Rice
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Patricia Ganz
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Warren Scott Comulada
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Nataly Soberanes

Research Administration Analyst

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Jingyi Jessica Li
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Corrina Moucheraud
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Randall Kuhn
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Srikanth Kadiyala
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Bryan Astrachan
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Karin B. Michels
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Xi Zhu
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Andrew Holbrook
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Elizabeth D’Amico
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Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
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Robert J. Kim-Farley

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Sarah Blenner

Director of Field Studies and Applied Professional Training

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Weng Kee Wong
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Donatello Telesca
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Burt Cowgill
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Anthony Hunter Schiff
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Yusuke Tsugawa
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Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
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Alice Kuo
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Dylan Roby
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Michael Ong
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Arturo Vargas Bustamante
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Deborah Anne Freund
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Minette Ozuna

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Miriam Marlier
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May Sudhinaraset
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Vickie Mays
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Mia Hashibe
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Marc Suchard
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Jonathan Bates
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Jason H. Moore

Automated and accessible artificial intelligence methods and software for biomedical data science.

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Gilbert C. Gee
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Janae Hubbard

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Alina Dorian
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Robert Erin Weiss
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Ron D. Hays

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Abdelmonem A. Afifi
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Candace Tsai

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Joann G. Elmore
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Michael Galper
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Jeanne Miranda
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Catherine Ann Sugar
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Porchia Toussaint

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Michael Jerrett
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Michele Guindani
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Eric Wilks

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Clifford Ko
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Kristy J. Sherrer

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Roch A. Nianogo
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Moira Inkelas
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Michelle S. Keller

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Elizabeth (Becky) Yano
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Liwei Chen

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Roger Detels
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Donald E. Morisky
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Kenneth Wells
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Thomas R. Belin
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Daniel Uslan
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Samuel Stratton
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Yvonne Flores
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Dena Herman
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Matthew J. Mimiaga
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Jonathan Fielding
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May C. Wang
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Beate Ritz
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Lillian Gelberg
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Jonathan Jacobs
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Charlotte G. Neumann
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Dvora Joseph Davey

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Brittney Hawkins
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Leonel Ibarra

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Dana Hunnes
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Dana Rose Garfin
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Sung-Jae Lee
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Martin L. Lee
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Catherine Cortez
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Ilan H. Meyer
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Paul Fu, Jr.
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Flor Vasquez

Administrator, California Health Interview Survey

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Shira Shafir
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Nicole Werking

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Aria Fallah
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Michael Prelip
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Nathan D. Wong
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Susan Cochran
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Kyle Sullivan

Director, Executive Programs in Health Policy and Management

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Samuel Sessions
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Rebecca Wolfe

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Oliver Hankinson

Dr. Hankinson is a Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and of EHS, and Chair of the Molecular Toxicology IDP

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Hamid Arabzadeh
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Anne Rimoin
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Anna Lim
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Paul Hsu
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Joseph Fong
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David Eisenman
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Julia Bailey
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Sandra Aronberg
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Anne Pebley
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Irish del Rosario
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Luis Diaz

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Linda Rosenstock
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Michael Collins
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James Macinko

Professor of Community Health Sciences & Health Policy and Management, and Associate Dean for Research

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Kristie Allen

Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations

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Elizabeth Yzquierdo
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Sean Darling-Hammond
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Yifang Zhu
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Rachel Bolanos
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Jennifer Wortham
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Jennifer Scott Powers

Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Affairs

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Kirstin Chickering
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Emily Abel
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Timothy Brewer
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Felicia Hodge
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Avram Kaplan
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Caroline Gallaher

Senior Director of Development

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Gilma Vaona

Senior Fund Manager

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Ximena Vergara
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Dorota M. Dabrowska
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Joselyne Franco

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Kristen Choi
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Brian Bradbury
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Michael Goldstein
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Gang Li
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Kathlene Avakian 

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Environmental Health Sciences
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Nora Sweeney
Nora Sweeney

Senior Program Manager, Office of Public Health Practice

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Nicole Hadjioannou
Nicole Hadjioannou
Epidemiology
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Nina Harawa
Epidemiology
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Andrew Lee

Senior Fund Manager

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Dr. Risha Gidwani
Risha Gidwani
Health Policy and Management
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Espana, Luis
Luis España
Environmental Health Sciences
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Andre Nel
André Nel
Environmental Health Sciences
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Anne Coleman
Anne Coleman
Epidemiology
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Comanor, Bill
William Comanor
Health Policy and Management
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Lisa V. Smith
Epidemiology
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Neal Halfon
Health Policy and Management
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Brunilda Balliu
Biostatistics
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Jack Needleman
Jack Needleman
Health Policy and Management
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Adelin Lo
Health Policy and Management
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Timothy Malloy
Environmental Health Sciences
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Kimberly Gregory
Kimberly Gregory
Community Health Sciences
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Dr. Ninez Ponce
Ninez Ponce
Health Policy and Management
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Vonthanak Saphonn
Epidemiology
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Dr. William McCarthy
William J. McCarthy
Health Policy and Management
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Dr. Stephanie Taylor
Stephanie L. Taylor

Nationally recognized health services researcher and sociomedical scientist with 25+ years' experience in effectiveness and implementation research.

Health Policy and Management
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Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang
Zuo-Feng Zhang
Epidemiology
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Carol Mangione
Health Policy and Management
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Jian Li
Jian Li
Environmental Health Sciences Epidemiology
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Mel Suffet
Irwin Suffet
Environmental Health Sciences
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Erin Bresnahan
Erin Bresnahan
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Dr. Daniel Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg
Health Policy and Management
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Haroutune Armenian
Haroutune Armenian
Epidemiology
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Marissa J. Seamans
Marissa Seamans
Epidemiology
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Marjorie Kagawa-Singer
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer
Community Health Sciences
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Pamina Gorbach
Pamina Gorbach
Epidemiology
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Bonnie Taub
Bonnie Taub

Chair/Associate Director - LAI

Community Health Sciences
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Julienne Jose-Chen
Julienne Jose-Chen
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Thomas Priselac
Health Policy and Management
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Paul Dluzniewski
Epidemiology
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Uyen Ha
Uyen Ha
Community Health Sciences
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Philip Massey
Community Health Sciences
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Thomas D. Gordon
Health Policy and Management
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Jessica Tuan
Jessica Tuan

Project Coordinator

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Diana Hilberman
Diana Hilberman
Health Policy and Management
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Dr. Jessica Gipson
Jessica Gipson
Community Health Sciences
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Ronald Halbert
Community Health Sciences
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Riti Shimkhada
Riti Shimkhada
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Peter Saenz

Staff Human Resources Analyst

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Dr. Robert Schiestl
Robert Schiestl
Environmental Health Sciences
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Gilda Noori
Gilda Noori
Epidemiology
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Dr. Shane Que Hee
Shane Que Hee

Industrial Hygiene & Analytical Chemistry

Environmental Health Sciences
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Michelle Garcia-Navarro
Michelle Garcia-Navarro
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Parneet Ghuman
Parneet Ghuman
Health Policy and Management
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Eric Malmquist
Eric Malmquist

Assistant Director, Academic and Staff Human Resources

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Annette Regan
Epidemiology
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Shirley Rayner
Shirley Rayner
Epidemiology
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