Dr. von Ehrenstein’s interdisciplinary research examines environmental factors considering the interplay with social, behavioral and biological factors in relation to health and disease. She focuses the prenatal period to adolescence, with a life course perspective. Her work aims at improving population health and sustainability, especially in low resource settings and communities in different countries.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Public Health/Epidemiology
- MPH, Epidemiology
- MSc, Biology
Dr. Vergara developed her interest in occupational and environmental epidemiology at UCLA. Prior to graduate school, she worked over ten years in analytical chemistry laboratories within private industry. She draws from over ten years of epidemiologic experience focused on rare neurodegenerative diseases and childhood cancers, she has a keen interest in exposure assessment and epidemiologic methods within the context of occupational and environmental epidemiology studies.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Environmental Health Sciences/Industrial Hygiene, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- AB, Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dr. Frank Sorvillo is Professor In-Residence in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA’s School of Public Health and Chief of Public Health Records and Research with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. His interests include the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases, particularly parasitic agents, and the application of epidemiologic methods to the study of infectious disease problems. Dr. Sorvillo currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BS, Biology, Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, CT
Dr. Smith has extensive experience teaching applied research skills. Since joining the UCLA faculty in 2001, she has co-taught several popular courses designed to enhance students’ skills in public health research including EPIDEM 411: Research Resources in Epidemiology and EPIDEM 230: Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention and Control.
Education
- SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9, SAS Institute, Cary, NC
- UC President’s Postdoc Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, CA
- DrPH, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, CA
- MPH, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, CA
- MS, Biology, California State University Los Angeles, CA
- BS, Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Paul Simon is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at USC Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Simon received his MD from the University of Michigan School of Medicine and his MPH in Epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He completed a two-year fellowship in field epidemiology with the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS Program) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Education
- MPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- BA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Julia Heck is a co-author of research listed in the National Cancer Institute’s Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program Research Highlights for 2021.
Dr. Sander Greenland was among the most highly cited researchers in the world in 2021, according to Clarivate Analytics.
Dr. Roger Detels delivered the 47th Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture at UCLA FSPH.
Dr. Susan Cochran was honored by the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute with the 2022 Impact Award.
Dr. Onyebuchi Arah received the 2021 Outstanding Contributions to Epidemiology award from the American College of Epidemiology.