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 Inaugural 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.
Dr. Matthew Mimiaga was invited to serve as an advisory board member for UCLA Extension’s behavioral health program.
Dr. Matthew Mimiaga was invited to serve on the UCLA Institutional Review Board.
Dr. Matthew Mimiaga was recognized with the Uncommon Bruin of the Game Award, UCLA Women’s Basketball, in 2020 and 2021.
Dr. Elizabeth Rose Mayeda’s research was chosen as an “Editor’s Choice” paper in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.