A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor has been chosen by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to serve as a subject matter expert on dissemination and implementation science.
Karla Tovar Aguilar, a student in the Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program, has been awarded the Fall, 2026 New Student Scholarship. The MHA program is led by Dr. Laura Erskine, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM), and is administered by the Office of the Executive Programs in HPM.
The New York Times interviewed Dr. Chelsea Shover, associate professor in the UCLA Fielding Department of Health Policy and Management, about her research into fentanyl abuse.
People in Los Angeles who use illicit fentanyl regularly consume quantities of the drug equivalent to morphine doses hundreds of times higher than fentanyl doses used in hospitals. This use is far beyond what addiction treatment protocols were designed to address.
U.S. News & World Report quoted Dr. Chelsea Shover, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about her research into fentanyl use by substance abusers.
Dhruv Khurana, Ph.D., is a health economist specializing in the design, implementation, and evaluation of system-wide interventions using quasi-experimental causal inference methods to improve health outcomes for underserved and marginalized populations.
Education
- Ph.D., Economics (Health Econometrics), Claremont Graduate University, California, USA
- M.A., Economics (Behavioral Economics), Claremont Graduate University, California, USA
- M.S., Management (Finance), London School of Economics, London, UK
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Randall Kuhn, professor in UCLA Fielding's Department of Community Health Sciences, about conflicts over housing, including both for seniors and for in-patient treatment centers, in Los Angeles.
The New York Times interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Chelsea Shover, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about the impact of funding reductions for "harm reduction" strategies in addiction treatment.
"... Harm reduction supporters reject the notion that protecting people from the worst consequences of drugs encourages use.
Dr. Michael Ong, a professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy Management and of medicine at UCLA, was interviewed by CBS News about e-cigarettes and their associated health risks.
Dr. Crable is an Assistant Professor with expertise in health policy, health services research, and implementation science. Her research investigates the roles of policy and politics in achieving health equity outcomes. Dr. Crable tests dissemination and implementation strategies aimed at improving how research is communicated to policy actors, and increasing access to evidence-based substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, harm reduction, and HIV prevention services for safety-net and criminal/legal-involved populations.
Education
- PhD, Health Services Research, Boston University, Boston, USA
- MPH, Global Health, Boston University, Boston, USA
- BA, Journalism & Anthropology, American University, Washington DC, USA