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
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
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
Onyebuchi ("Onyi") Arah, MD, MSc, MPH, DSc, PhD, is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health and an Affiliated Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science. He has been an Associate Dean at UCLA's Division of Graduate Education. He has served as President-Elect, President, and Past-President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER). He is the Co-Director of the Practical Causal Inference Lab at UCLA. An internationally renowned scholar, he is also Honorary Skou Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Education
- MD, MSc, DSc, MPH, PhD
