About Dr. Prelip
Center Affiliations
- Center for Public Health and Disasters
- UCLA Bixby Center to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity
- UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Education
- DPA
- MPH
- CHES
- CPH
Dr. Dallas Swendeman, PhD, MPH, is an applied multi-disciplinary behavioral scientist whose research currently focuses on leveraging mobile phones’ nearly ubiquitous integration into our daily routines for innovative intervention and research methods, specifically for prevention, self-management, and treatment adherence and retention interventions targeting HIV/AIDS, substance use, sexual risk behaviors, mental health and quality of life.
Education
- PhD, Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Michael Ong, MD PhD, is a Professor in Residence of Medicine & Health Policy and Management at UCLA. He is currently the Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development, and was the Hospitalist Chief from 2018-2022, at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. He also is the Desert Pacific Healthcare Network (VISN 22) Research Officer, overseeing research at the 8 VA facilities in Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Dr. Ong is a practicing general internist.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Health Services & Policy Analysis, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- MD, University of California, San Diego, CA
Dr. Joann G. Elmore is a professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She also serves as Director of the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program. She is a national leader in academic general internal medicine and has a distinguished career as an investigator, mentor, administrator and educator.
Education
- Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Fellowship, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- MPH, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- MD, Honors in Research and Teaching, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
- BS, Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Dr. Li joined UCLA in 2019. He shares a position between the Fielding School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Department and the School of Nursing, with a joint-appointment in the Fielding School of Public Health, Epidemiology Department. Before his appointment at UCLA, Dr. Li had been working in China and Germany with extensive experience on occupational health. He is an active member of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) Scientific Committees on Cardiology in Occupational Health, and on Work Organisation and Psychosocial Factors.
Center Affiliations
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
- Southern California NIOSH Education and Research Center
Education
- Doctor of Security Science (Safety Sciences), University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
- PhD, Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
- MD, Preventive Medicine, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China
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
Dr. DerSarkissian is an epidemiologist whose expertise includes epidemiologic methodology and applications of modern methods to observational health data. She has a wide range of experience in pharmacoepidemiology and health economics and outcomes research, including studies on causal methods and global health. Dr.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Dr. Su Yon Jung is an Associate Professor in the UCLA School of Nursing and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Jung is a faulty member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Genetics & Genomics Graduate Program in Bioscience. Dr. Jung is a molecular genetic cancer epidemiologist. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA
- MPH, Occupational Health, The Catholic University of Korea, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul, Korea
- BSN, Nursing Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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