Dr. Susan Cochran served as vice-chair of the UC Systemwide Academic Senate and as faculty representative to the Regents.
Dr. Susan Cochran served as a guest editor of “When Dying Really Counts,” a special edition of the American Journal of Public Health.
Dr. Zuo-Feng Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Epidemiology, Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Environment Genomics, Director of Molecular Epidemiology Training Program, and Scientific Director of UCLA Central Tumor Registry. Dr. Zhang has been a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology (ACE) since 1999 and he served as Member of the Board of Directors of the American College of Epidemiology from 2002 to 2005. Dr.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Cancer Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, NY
- MD, Preventive Medicine, Shanghai Medical University, China
- Post-Doctoral Fellow in Cancer Epidemiology, Internaitonal Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Lyon, France
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- MPH, Epidemiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- BA, Biochemistry, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Dr. Amy Wohl is an Epidemiologist who worked for the Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health (DPH) and the LAC Department of Health Services (DHS) for almost 30 years. She oversaw the Program Evaluation Unit in the LACDHS Office of Planning and Data Analytics where she conducted research and evaluation on health outcomes and service utilization for high-need Medi-Cal clients and DHS patients.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Epidemiology and Health Services Administration, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- BA, Geography and Social Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Dr. Noel Weiss has been an epidemiologist for 50 years. While much of his work has been directed towards cancer epidemiology and epidemiologic methods, he has had a consistent interest in clinical epidemiology, i.e. the study of the outcome of illness. In 1986, he published a book on this subject - Clinical Epidemiology: The Study of the Outcome of Illness (Monographs in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 36) - which is now in its third edition.
Education
- MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
- DrPH, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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