Dr. Penelope Fu, MD, MPH, FAMIA, FAAP, is VP/Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at City of Hope, and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Most recently, she was CMIO and Division Chief and Fellowship Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. She was also previously CMIO and CIO at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, one of the largest public health service delivery systems in the country.
Education
- MD, Boston University, MA
- MPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BS, Boston University, MA
Dr. Yvonne Flores, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and a research scientist at the Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. She is also a member of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Additionally, Dr. Flores is an investigator at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), where she has led numerous bi-national projects since 2000.
Education
- PhD, Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MPH, Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
I am a health services researcher with an abiding interest in the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. I am especially concerned with improving preventive medicine practice and the quality of health care for older adults.
Education
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MA, Columbia University, New York City, NY
Dr. Jonathan Fielding is a Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and of Pediatrics in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Fielding is an expert in public health preparedness and communications.
Center Affiliations
Education
- MD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- MPH, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- MA, History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- MBA, Wharton School of Business Administration, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Aria Fallah is a fellowship trained pediatric neurosurgeon who practices at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is board certified in Neurosurgery by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is also board certified by the American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery.
Education
- Fellowship, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Miami Children's Hospital, Miami, FL, 2015
- Residency, Neurosurgery, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Canada, 2014
- MSc, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2013
- MD, McMaster University School of Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2008
A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty member has been honored with the State of California’s highest award for public service in the discipline, the Beverlee A. Myers Award for Excellence in Public Health.
Will all Californians have a chance to enjoy good health in the coming 100 years? What steps can policymakers and healthcare leaders take to make that happen?
Research led by Dr.
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) and MolinaCares today named the 10 finalists in the inaugural Health Equity Challenge, a competition that provides UCLA graduate students the opportunity to respond to a health equity iss
Researchers led by Dr. Nadereh Pourat, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, have released findings from the Final Summative Evaluation of California’s Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in Medi-Cal (PRIME) Program.