Dr. Dvora Joseph Davey is an infectious disease epidemiologist with over 20 years of experience in maternal and newborn health research and program evaluation. Dr. Joseph Davey is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) in the Department of Epidemiology and Division of Infectious Diseases in the Geffen School at UCLA. Based in South Africa, she is a Honorary Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Center Affiliations
- Biobehavioral Assessment and Research Center
- UCLA Bixby Center to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity
- Center for Global and Immigrant Health
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Population and Reproductive Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
The maternal mortality rate in the United States exceeds that of any other developed country and it increased significantly in 2020, according to a new analysis. Outcomes are particular troubling for Black women, who face a risk nearly three times that of white women, putting their risk of maternal mortality rates on a par with that of women in Central American countries.
Dr. Pamina M. Gorbach focuses on the biobehavioral epidemiology of infectious disease, especially how HIV transmission, acquisition and progression is affected by substance abuse. She is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and in the Division of Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Gorbach's work in HIV prevention, treatment and care involves research in Los Angeles with long time partners the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the UCLA Vine Street Clinic she helped establish. Dr.
Education
- DrPH, University of North Carolina, North Chapel Hill, NC
- MHS, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University
- BA, Brown University, Providence, RI
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
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
Dr. Jennifer Wagman earned her PhD in Reproductive, Perinatal and Women’s Health and her Master’s degree of Health Science in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and a Bioethics and Health Policy Certificate from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Her postdoctoral training, completed at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, was in alcohol and substance use, HIV and related infections. Since 2000, Dr.
Education
- PhD, Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MHS, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- BA, Animal Behavior, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA
Dr. Steven M. Teutsch, MD, MPH is an adjunct professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; Senior Fellow at the Public Health Institute; and Senior Fellow at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California.
Center Affiliations
Education
- Residency, Internal Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA
- MD, Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
- BA, Biochemical Science, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
About Dr. Shafir
Education
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
- MPH, University of California, Berkeley
- BS, Loyola Marymount University
Dr. Marissa Seamans, PhD, MSPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Seamans’ research focuses on the intersection of social epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology to address substance use and mental health. Her work explores the use of large healthcare databases to examine prescription drug use in families and the effectiveness of treatments for mental health and substance use disorders. Methodologically, Dr.
Education
- Postdoctoral, Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
- MSPH, Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
- BA, Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, Columbia College, New York, NY
Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (she/her) is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Mayeda's research focuses on dementia epidemiology and quantitative methods, with particular emphasis on addressing key methodological challenges in dementia research, including selection bias. Her long-term research goals are to: (1) identify effective population-level strategies to prevent dementia and (2) develop research tools to strengthen causal inference in dementia research and lifecourse epidemiology.
Education
- Postdoctoral fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
- PhD, University of California, San Francisco
- MPH, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- BA, University of California, Berkeley