Dr. Randall Kuhn (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999) is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health among vulnerable populations. He is an expert in survey design, longitudinal analysis and counterfactual research design. In the field of migration and health, Dr. Kuhn has designed new approaches to estimating the impact of migration on health. In global health, Dr.
Education
- PhD, Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- MA, Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- AB, Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Roshan Bastani, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and Co-Director of the Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. In the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, she is Director for Community Engagement. She served an 11-year term as Associate Dean for Research in the School of Public Health.
Education
- PhD, Psychology (Social/Health), University of Houston, Houston, TX
- MA, Psychology, Bombay University, Bombay, India
- BA, Psychology, Bombay University, Bombay, India
Sudipto Banerjee, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and in the Department of Statistics & Data Science with an affiliate appointment in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
Education
- PhD, Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2000
- M.STAT, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, 1996
- BS (Honours), Presidency College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata India, 1994
Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante is a Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy & Management and serves as Faculty Research Director at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. The primary focus of his research has been on health care access and utilization, particularly among Latinos/Hispanics and immigrants in the United States. He has also contributed to border and international health care research, as well as chronic care management research in primary care settings.
Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2008
- MA, Economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2006
- MPP, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2004
- Lic, El Colegio de México, 2000
Dr. Beltrán-Sánchez’s research focuses on the demography of health and aging. He has written on health patterns and trends in low- and middle-income countries; on aging in high-income countries including issues about compression of morbidity; on the links between early life experiences and late life outcomes; as well as on biomarker data from Mexico to study physiological patterns of health and their link with sociodemographic factors. Dr.
Education
- PhD, Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- MA, Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- MS, Mathematics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
- BS, Actuarial Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Dr. Gerald Kominski is professor emeritus of health policy and management and Senior Fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. His research focuses on evaluating the costs and financing of public insurance programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Workers’ Compensation. Since 2010, his research has focused on evaluating the expected and actual impacts of healthcare reform under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He co-led the development of a microsimulation model (CalSIM) for forecasting eligibility, enrollment, and expenditures under the ACA in California.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Public Policy Analysis, University of Pennsylvania
- BA, University of Chicago
Jody Heymann, MD, PhD, is founding director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center and served as dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health from 2013-2018.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Harvard University, Boston, MA
- MD, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Education
- PhD
- MPH
- RD
Dr. Su Yon Jung is an Associate Professor in the UCLA School of Nursing and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Jung is a faulty member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Genetics & Genomics Graduate Program in Bioscience. Dr. Jung is a molecular genetic cancer epidemiologist. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA
- MPH, Occupational Health, The Catholic University of Korea, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul, Korea
- BSN, Nursing Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
Mia Hashibe, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Member of the Cancer Control and Survivorship Program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. She also has a joint appointment in the Division of Digestive Diseases. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Japanese at UCLA and her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology degrees from the UCLA School of Public Health. After obtaining her PhD, she held a postdoctoral fellow and scientist position at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France.
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Epidemiology, University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- BS, Biology, University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA