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
Natalie Digate Muth, MD, MPH, RDN, FAAP is on the adjunct faculty of UCLA Field School of Public Health/Community Health Sciences. She is a dual board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine physician and registered dietitian. She practices general pediatrics and obesity medicine and serves as the Senior Advisor for Healthcare Solutions for the American Council on Exercise. She also is a diplomat of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.
Education
- MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
- MPH/RDN, Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
- BS, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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. May Sudhinaraset, PhD is a Professor and Vice Chair in Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at UCLA. She is trained as a social epidemiologist from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on understanding the social determinants of migrant, adolescent, and women’s health both globally and in the US.
Dr. Wendelin Slusser is Associate Vice Provost (AVP) for the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) Center at UCLA, building a culture of health and equity through a collective impact model for the over 85,000 students, staff, and faculty, and beyond. She is also HS Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the UCLA School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor in UCLA School of Public Health, and Co-Founder and Academic Director of the UCLA Fit for Health program.
Education
- MS, Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons Pediatric Residency, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, NY
- MD, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, NY
- BA, Biology, Princeton University, NJ
About Dr. Shafir
Education
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
- MPH, University of California, Berkeley
- BS, Loyola Marymount University
Dr. Beate Ritz joined the faculty of the School of Public Health at UCLA in 1995 and is Professor of Epidemiology with co-appointments in the Environmental Health department at the UCLA School of Public Health and in Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine; she is a member of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), the Southern California Environmental Health Science Center (SCEHSC), co-directed the NIEHS-funded UCLA Center for Gene-Environment Studies of Parkinson's disease and is the Interim Director for the APDA Center of Excellence in Parkinson's Disease R
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, CA
- MPH, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, CA
- Doctoral Degree, Medical Sociology, University of Hamburg, Germany
- MD, Medical Examination Certificate, Physician Registration
Dr. Annette Regan is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and an Assistant Professor at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health. Her research is dedicated to epidemiological investigations which aim to inform global policy for improving maternal and child health. She completed her epidemiology training at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health (MPH, 2006) and infectious disease epidemiology training at the School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of Western Australia (PhD, 2016).
Education
- PhD, Infectious Diseases, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- MSc, Infectious Diseases, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- MPH, Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, United States
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD