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
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. Martinez-Maza received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from UCLA in 1981, going on to do postdoctoral work at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm), Pasteur Institute (Paris), and at UCLA. He has been a faculty member at UCLA since 1988, most recently serving as professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology (vice chair for Basic Research) and Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, as well as in Epidemiology in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Education
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BS, University of California, Irvine, CA
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) and a faculty member of the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), Dr. Shane Que Hee came to the Department in 1989 from the University of Cincinnati where he had been Assistant and Associate Professor since 1978. As of 2023, he had 238 peer-reviewed publications including 138 in peer-reviewed journals, 88 book chapters, 4 books, six EPA criteria documents,153 national & international meeting presentations, and 66 keynote addresses at international and national meetings.
CENTERS AFFILIATIONS
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
- Southern California NIOSH Education and Research Center
Education
- PhD, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- MSc, Physical Chemistry, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- BSc, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Dr. Javanbakht received her BA in Biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, her MPH in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Yale University, and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA in 2006, Dr. Javanbakht served as an epidemiologist for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Sexually Transmitted Disease Program.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
- MPH, Yale University
- BA, University of California, Santa Barbara
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
Dr. Kelika Konda is based in Lima, Peru and her research focuses on strategies to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) within the local social and epidemiologic context. In 2013, she received a K01 from the NIMH to study relationships between gay men in Peru and to develop an HIV prevention intervention for gay men. The proposed intervention will focus on their sexual partnerships and include couples voluntary counseling and testing for HIV infection.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- MHS, International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- BA, Barnard College of Columbia University, New York, NY
Dr. Ron Andersen is the Wasserman Professor Emeritus in the UCLA Departments of Health Policy and Management.
