Dr. Li joined UCLA in 2019. He shares a position between the Fielding School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Department and the School of Nursing, with a joint-appointment in the Fielding School of Public Health, Epidemiology Department. Before his appointment at UCLA, Dr. Li had been working in China and Germany with extensive experience on occupational health. He is an active member of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) Scientific Committees on Cardiology in Occupational Health, and on Work Organisation and Psychosocial Factors.

Sung-Jae Lee, PhD, is a Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Nathanson Family Resilience Center, Division of Population Behavioral Health.  Dr.

Dr. Liwei Chen is a Professor (tenured) in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.  Dr. Chen’s research mainly research area is cardiometabolic disease epidemiology, including the etiology and prevention of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In particular, her research focuses on 1) lifestyle factors such as diet and physical activity; 2) the life-course perspective of cardiometabolic diseases for women; 3) maternal and child health; and 4) health disparities in cardiometabolic diseases. Dr.

Sudipto Banerjee, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and in the Department of Statistics & Data Science with an affiliate appointment in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Dr. Alexandra Binder is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and an Assistant Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center. Dr. Binder received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Scripps College, her Masters of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, and her Doctorate of Science in Epidemiology, also from Harvard University.

Mia Hashibe, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Member of the Cancer Control and Survivorship Program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. She also has a joint appointment in the Division of Digestive Diseases. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Japanese at UCLA and her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology degrees from the UCLA School of Public Health. After obtaining her PhD, she held a postdoctoral fellow and scientist position at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France.

Dr. Ron Halbert has over three decades of experience working with healthcare systems, including industry, nonprofit, and government entities. His primary area of expertise lies in integrating clinical, patient-reported and pharmacoeconomic outcomes to inform product development and marketing strategy. With deep roots in clinical practice, academia, and industry, Ron brings a unique insight to all aspects of the business of healthcare.

Dr. Greene developed a passion for Epidemiology while earning her Master of Public Health at UCLA. After spending the first 20 years of professional life as a high-risk obstetrics and gynecology research sonographer, she found that the discipline of Epidemiology would allow her to begin answering some of the many challenging questions that had arisen in her chosen field of maternal and child health and to supply the analytic tools needed to search for the answers in valid and reproducible ways.

Onyebuchi ("Onyi") Arah, MD, MSc, MPH, DSc, PhD, is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health and an Affiliated Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science. He has been an Associate Dean at UCLA's Division of Graduate Education. He has served as President-Elect, President, and Past-President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER). He is the Co-Director of the Practical Causal Inference Lab at UCLA. An internationally renowned scholar, he is also Honorary Skou Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Lara J. Cushing’s research focuses on social inequalities in exposure to environmental hazards and the cumulative impacts of environmental and social stressors to health. She has assessed the health consequences of environmental and climate-related exposures for pregnant women and infants, and investigated questions of environmental justice in the context of of oil and gas development, drinking water quality, and climate change.