Mia Giordano spent most of last summer traveling from Antigua, Guatemala to reproductive health clinics within a day’s travel of the city.
“Some days were very long. We would leave at 5:00 a.m. and didn’t return until 5:00, 6:00 or even 7:00 p.m.!” said the UCLA graduate student of her work as a monitoring and evaluation intern for WINGS Guatemala. A nonprofit organization headquartered in Antigua, WINGS provides free reproductive health services to mostly rural, underserved populations in the country.
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
Dr. Gipson's work focuses on reproductive health, mostly in lower-income settings. Her research incorporates both qualitative and quantitative research methods to investigate reproductive health and reproductive decision-making among women and couples.
Education
- PhD, Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MPH, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
- BS, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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