Current Academic Appointments. Dr. Matthew J. Mimiaga is tenured Full Professor and Vice Chair of Epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA. He is Director of the UCLA Center for LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Research & Health (C- LARAH) and affiliated Senior Research Scientist at The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA.
Center Affiliations
Education & Training
- Post Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- ScD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- MPH, Boston University, Boston, MA
- MA, Brown University, Providence, RI
Dr. Xi Zhu, PhD, is a Professor and the Paul Torrens Chair in Healthcare Management in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Zhu received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on micro and macro organizational behaviors in healthcare delivery systems.
Center Affiliations
- Center for Healthcare Management
- Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research
- UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
- UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Education
- PhD, Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- MS, Business Administration, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
- BS, Accounting/Applied Mathematics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Education
- PhD, Sociomedical Sciences/Social Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY
- MA, Psychology, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
- BA, Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Dr. Jennifer Wagman earned her PhD in Reproductive, Perinatal and Women’s Health and her Master’s degree of Health Science in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and a Bioethics and Health Policy Certificate from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Her postdoctoral training, completed at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, was in alcohol and substance use, HIV and related infections. Since 2000, Dr.
Education
- PhD, Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MHS, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- BA, Animal Behavior, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA
Dr. May Sudhinaraset, PhD is a Professor and Vice Chair in Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at UCLA. She is trained as a social epidemiologist from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on understanding the social determinants of migrant, adolescent, and women’s health both globally and in the US.
Courtney S. Thomas Tobin, PhD is an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences and the Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion at the Fielding School of Public Health. She is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and holds a join appointment in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA.
Education
- Postdoctoral Training, University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Ph.D. Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- M.A. Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- B.S. Psychology, Xavier University of Louisiana
Stephanie L. Taylor is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Taylor’s primary appointment is Senior Investigator at the Greater Los Angeles VA. As a health services researcher and sociomedical scientist with over 25 years’ experience in effectiveness and implementation research, Dr.
Education
- PhD, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
- MPH, Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY
Vickie Mays is a Professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Letters and Sciences, as well as a Professor in the Department of Health Services. Professor Mays is also the Director of the UCLA Center on Research, Education, Training and Strategic Communication on Minority Health Disparities (www.MinorityHealthDisparities.org).
Education
- PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- MSPH, Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Mayeda's research focuses on identifying modifiable determinants of cognitive decline and dementia among older adults. Her research program has both applied and methodological themes. Her research focuses on identifying effective population-level strategies to promote late-life cognitive and brain health. She also leads work addressing methodological challenges in longitudinal studies of cognitive aging and dementia risk.
Education
- Postdoctoral fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
- PhD, University of California, San Francisco
- MPH, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- BA, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Annette Maxwell is Professor of Health Policy and Management and conducts research at the Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research and the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. She has developed a cancer research program that focuses on reducing cancer disparities. With funding from the NIH, ACS and DOD, she has conducted randomized trials to test interventions to increase breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening, hepatitis B testing, and to improve adherence to diagnostic follow-up procedures.
Center Affiliations
Education
- DrPH