Dr. Thomas Rice is Distinguished Professor of the Department of Health Policy and Management. He served as Vice Chancellor, Academic Personnel for the UCLA campus from 2006-11. He teaches courses in international health care systems, health economics, and current issues in health policy.
Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Dr. Sheena Sullivan is an infectious diseases epidemiologist, with a focus on viral respiratory pathogens. She completed an MPH at the University of Western Australia in 2002 and her PhD in 2011 at UCLA. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology with the UCLA Fielding Schools of Public Health.
Education
- BSc (hons), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia (1998)
- MPH, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (2002)
- MS, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2009)
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2011)
Dr. Anne Pebley is a social demographer and public health specialist who works on a wide range of issues related to social inequality and the determinants of health, both globally and in the United States. She is well-known for design, conduct, and analysis of social and health surveys, with the goal of answering key policy and basic research questions.
Education
- PhD, Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- MPS, International Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- BA, Comparative Communist Studies, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Education
- PhD
- MA
- MN
- RN
- FAAN
Dr. Rachael M. Jones, PhD, CIH is a professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Jones is an exposure scientist and industrial hygienist, with experience with exposure modeling, simulation studies and experiments, and field sampling. Dr. Jones' work has centered on the assessment and control of workplace exposures to infectious agents, especially respiratory viruses. More recently, Dr. Jones begun exploring the impact of power and (in)equity on occupational health and safety. Dr.
Center Affiliations
- Southern California NIOSH Education and Research Center
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Education
- PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- MPH, Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- BS, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Dr. Burt Cowgill is an associate professor-in-residence who resides in the UCLA Kaiser Permanent Center for Health Equity and Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also a Pod Leader for the Research Well Pod at the UCLA Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center. Dr.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
By training, I am both a clinical psychologist and an epidemiologist.
Graduate Education
- Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California Los Angeles
- M.S., Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles
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