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.

Current Academic Appointments. Dr. Matthew J. Mimiaga is tenured Full Professor and Vice Chair of Epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA. He is Director of the UCLA Center for LGBTQ+ Advocacy, Research & Health (C- LARAH) and affiliated Senior Research Scientist at The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA.

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.

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.

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.

Virginia C. Li, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita in the Department of Community Health Sciences at Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA.  Born in China, she received a masters degree in Nutrition from New York University.  As a mother of three preschool children, she returned to graduate school and received her M.P.H. and doctorate in Public Health Education from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. She has held professorships at the University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Dr. Robbins is a professor in the Environmental Health Sciences Department, and the School of Nursing. She holds faculty appointments with the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Molecular Toxicology IDP, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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).