Dr. Pamina M. Gorbach focuses on the biobehavioral epidemiology of infectious disease, especially how HIV transmission, acquisition and progression is affected by substance abuse. She is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and in the Division of Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Gorbach's work in HIV prevention, treatment and care involves research in Los Angeles with long time partners the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the UCLA Vine Street Clinic she helped establish. Dr.
Education
- DrPH, University of North Carolina, North Chapel Hill, NC
- MHS, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University
- BA, Brown University, Providence, RI
Education
- PhD, Brown University, Providence, RI
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. Penelope Fu, MD, MPH, FAMIA, FAAP, is VP/Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at City of Hope, and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Most recently, she was CMIO and Division Chief and Fellowship Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. She was also previously CMIO and CIO at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, one of the largest public health service delivery systems in the country.
Education
- MD, Boston University, MA
- MPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BS, Boston University, MA
Dr. Chandra L. Ford is Professor of Community Health Sciences and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Center Affiliations
Education
- Postdoctorate, Columbia University, New York City, NY
- Postdoctorate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
- PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
- MPH, University of Pittsburgh, PA
- MLIS, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Akihiro Nishi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is a social epidemiologist and medical sociologist specializing in social network analysis, network interventions, and evolutionary game theory (Nishi, Social Science & Medicine, 2015).
His research encompasses a broad range of topics, including:
Education
- Doctor of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2013
- Master of Public Health, Quantitative Methods, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2010
- MD Equivalent (Igakushi), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2007
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
Dr. Donald Morisky served as vice-chair in the Department of Community Health Sciences from 1994 to 2003 and chair from 2004-2005. His research is directed to both chronic and infectious diseases, specifically the risk factors for cardiovascular disease (high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and elevated cholesterol), tuberculosis control and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Education
- ScD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- ScM, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- MSPH, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
- BS, Chemistry/Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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