Max Hechter received an MPH in epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in 1994. Max started working for the UCLA MACS (now called the MWCCS) in 1994, primarily focused on ascertainment and confirmation of clinical outcomes of interest of this cohort, and management of several sub-studies that have arisen under the auspices of this long-running natural history of HIV and AIDS study.
Irish Del Rosario is the project manager for Dr. Ritz' lab, including the Parkinson's Disease Environmental and Genetics study, the Parkinson's Disease Registry Project, and the Human Placenta Project at UCLA. She graduated from the UCLA FSPH Masters program in Public Health in 2015 during which she conducted research addressing maternal and reproductive health in Bangladesh. She also previously gained experience as a grant writer and coordinator for refugee resettlement and rights in Hungary.
Ms. Stanley is currently the Project Director for the national initiative, Data Informed Futures, which is focused on promoting the health and well-being of young children at a local level. The initiative provides coaching and tools to over 90 communities in 18 states aimed at building local capacity to improve the alignment of service systems across the health, social service and education sectors. In this role, Ms.
When I called the epidemiologist Denis Nash this week to discuss the country’s worsening COVID numbers, he was about to take a rapid test. “I came in on the subway to work this morning, and I got a text from home,” Nash, a professor at the City University of New York, told me. “My daughter tested positive for COVID.”
Jacqueline Beltran is a research coordinator at the Biobehavioral Assessment Research Center known as BARC. BARC promotes research on high impact science in NIH identified high priority areas of public health research. The Center works to expand the toolboxes of clinical and behavioral researchers across these divides.