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
Dr. Anne Pebley is a social demographer and public health specialist who works on a wide range of issues related to social inequality and the determinants of health, both globally and in the United States. She is well-known for design, conduct, and analysis of social and health surveys, with the goal of answering key policy and basic research questions.
Education
- PhD, Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- MPS, International Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- BA, Comparative Communist Studies, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Dr. Julie Elginer is an associate professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She teaches master’s and doctoral-level classes in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Her courses on Healthcare Financial Management, Healthcare Marketing, Building Advocacy Skills in Reproductive Health, and Healthcare in International Perspectives consistently receive teaching evaluation scores in the top 3% among faculty.
Center Affiliations
Education
- DrPH, Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MBA, Strategy and Marketing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- BA, Carthage College, Accounting and Business Administration, Kenosha, WI
Dr. Moira Inkelas, PhD, MPH is professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She has a background in public health and public policy, with specific training and expertise in designing and implementing improvement science research. Her research focuses on improvement in primary care and human service organizations, and she has led learning networks of national and local health care providers and systems. She teaches core courses in the Master of Science in Implementation and Improvement Research in the Fielding School of Public Health.
Education
- PhD, RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA
- MPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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Education
- PhD, Educational Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
About Dr. Dorian
Education
- PhD
- BS
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.
Education
- Post-Doctoral Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship from the NICHD/NIH, Rockville, MD
- PhD, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MHS, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MS, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- MD, Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi’an, China
Dr. Randall Kuhn (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999) is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health among vulnerable populations. He is an expert in survey design, longitudinal analysis and counterfactual research design. In the field of migration and health, Dr. Kuhn has designed new approaches to estimating the impact of migration on health. In global health, Dr.
Education
- PhD, Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- MA, Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- AB, Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA