Dr. Nathan Wong received the 2021 Joseph Stokes III, MD Award for lifetime achievement from the American Society for Preventive Cardiology.
Dr. Beate Ritz received the 2022 Kenneth Rothman Career Accomplishment Award from the Society for Epidemiologic Research.
Dr. Beate Ritz was named an ISEE fellow by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology.
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
Current Academic Appointments. Dr. Matthew J. Mimiaga is tenured Full Professor and Vice Chair of Epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA. He is Director of the UCLA Center for LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Research & Health (C- LARAH) and affiliated Senior Research Scientist at The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA.
Center Affiliations
Education & Training
- Post Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- ScD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- MPH, Boston University, Boston, MA
- MA, Brown University, Providence, RI
Dr. Michels has expertise in epidemiologic methods, and epigenetic, nutritional, and cancer epidemiology. Her research focuses on women's health.
Dr. Michels is one of the co-founders of the area of epigenetic epidemiology and has made seminal contributions to the methods used in this field. Her research addresses the role of epigenetics in the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD). The Michels' lab studied the impact of events during perinatal life on the establishment of the epigenome.
Education
- PhD, Biostatistics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- ScD, Epidemiology, Harvard University, Boston, MA
- MPH, Harvard University, Boston, MA
- MS, Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- MS, Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY
- BS Equivalent, University of Freiburg Medical School, Freiburg, Germany
Dr. Anne Rimoin served as keynote speaker on “COVID-19 and Beyond: Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It Starts” at the LABest 2021 conference.
Dr. Anne Rimoin was appointed to the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health at UCLA FSPH.
Dr. Roch Nianogo received the 2022 Karen Toffler Charitable Trust’s Toffler Scholar Award.