SARAH FANTA LOVED HER JOB AS A DIETITIAN with the Public Health Foundation Enterprises WIC program, which provides healthy free food, nutrition education, breastfeeding assistance, and family resources to more than 200,000 women, children, and families in Southern California. As a supervisor at WIC offices in South Los Angeles and Culver City, Fanta managed teams that provided support services as well as high-risk counseling to WIC participants.
AFTER SPENDING MUCH OF HER CAREER in the realm of maternal and child nutrition — striving to improve the life trajectory of children by focusing on pregnancy and diet during the first five years of life — Dr.
Dr. Dana Rose Garfin, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA.
Education
- PhD, Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA
- MA, Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, CA
- BA, Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, CO
Dr. Dvora Joseph Davey is an infectious disease epidemiologist with over 20 years of experience in maternal and newborn health research and program evaluation. Dr. Joseph Davey is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) in the Department of Epidemiology and Division of Infectious Diseases in the Geffen School at UCLA. Based in South Africa, she is a Honorary Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Center Affiliations
- Biobehavioral Assessment and Research Center
- UCLA Bixby Center to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity
- Center for Global and Immigrant Health
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Population and Reproductive Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
Dr. Ronald Andersen is the Wasserman Professor Emeritus in the UCLA Departments of Health Policy and Management, and Sociology. Previously he chaired the Department of Heath Policy and Management at UCLA and was professor at the University of Chicago, serving for ten years as director of the Center for Health Administration Studies and the Graduate Program in Health Administration.
Education
- Ph.D., Purdue University
Education
- PhD
Dr. Gelberg is a family physician, health services researcher, and professor in UCLA’s Department of Family Medicine and Fielding School of Public Health and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and associate director of the UCLA Primary Care Research Fellowship. Her current research focuses on clinical trials to reduce risky drug use and promote healthy lifestyle change in low income populations using leading behavior change methodologies. Over the past 2 decades, Dr.
Center Affiliations
Education
- MD, Preventive and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- MSPH, Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Psychobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- Family Medicine Residency, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, NY
Gilbert C. Gee, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. His research focuses on racism and other social determinants of health inequities among racial/ethnic and immigrant communities.
Education
- Post Doctoral Training, Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- PhD, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- BA, Neuroscience, Oberlin College, OH
Dr. Yvonne Flores, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and a research scientist at the Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. She is also a member of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Additionally, Dr. Flores is an investigator at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), where she has led numerous bi-national projects since 2000.
Education
- PhD, Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MPH, Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Nianogo is an Assistant Professor in the department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is a general medicine physician-scientist and epidemiologist.
Center Affiliations
Education
- Post-doctoral fellowship, Systems science modeling, University of California, Los Angeles
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles
- MPH, Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
- MD, General Medicine, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso