Sung-Jae Lee, PhD, is a Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Nathanson Family Resilience Center, Division of Population Behavioral Health. Dr.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Epidemiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- BA, Social Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Education
- BS, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
- MSHS, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
- FAAFP, American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, KS
Dr. Liwei Chen is a Professor (tenured) in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Chen’s research mainly research area is cardiometabolic disease epidemiology, including the etiology and prevention of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In particular, her research focuses on 1) lifestyle factors such as diet and physical activity; 2) the life-course perspective of cardiometabolic diseases for women; 3) maternal and child health; and 4) health disparities in cardiometabolic diseases. Dr.
Education
- Post-Doctoral Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship from the NICHD/NIH, Rockville, MD
- PhD, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MHS, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MS, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- MD, Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi’an, China
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 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 Disparities and Community Engagement and Co-Director of the Cancer Control and Survivorship program. 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
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