Professor, Health Services and Medicine
UCLA School of Public Health
Department of Health Services
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
(310) 206-5838 or 206-1632
Fax: (310) 825-3317
E-mail: wcunningham@mednet.ucla.edu

Biographical Information

William E. Cunningham MD, MPH is a Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, and Department of Health Services, School of Public Health. He received his training in health services research through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and received his MPH degree in epidemiology from UCLA. Dr. Cunningham is author of over 60 manuscripts addressing access to medical care, disparities, and health outcomes in AIDS and other populations. He is currently PI of a HRSA-funded Special Project of National Significance (SPNS) where he is conducting a case-management intervention study for vulnerable persons with HIV infection. Dr. Cunningham is co-PI on an NICHD-funded project on gender and HIV risk prevention. He is also an investigator at RAND, and was a collaborator on the HIV Costs and Utilization Study (HCSUS), a national study of AIDS costs and AIDS patients' access to and quality of care. He is Director of the Investigator Development Core for the NIA-funded Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR), Director of the Training Core for the NCMHD-funded project Export, and an Associate Director of the newly refunded Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA. He teaches courses on race, ethnicity and health, health services organization and outcomes and effectiveness research. He is a practicing physician in internal medicine. In 2004, Dr. Cunningham was selected for honors in the prestigious American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Selected Publications

Cunningham WE, Davidson PL, Nakazono TT, Andersen RM. “Do Black and White Adults Use the Same Sources of Information About AIDS Prevention?” Health Education
and Behavior 1999; 26(5): 703-713.

Morales LS, Cunningham WE, Brown JA, Liu H, Hays RD. “Are Latinos Less Satisfied with Communication by Health Care Providers?” Journal of General Internal Medicine 1999; 14(7): 409-417.

Cunningham WE, Mosen DM, Morales LS, Andersen RM, Shapiro MF, Hays RD. “The Effect of Ethnicity and Race on Long-Term Survival from Hospitalization with HIV Disease.” Journal of Health Care for Poor and Underserved 2000; 11(2): 163-178.

Cunningham WE, Markson LE, Andersen RM, Crystal SH, Fleishman JA, Golin C, Gifford A, Liu HH, Nakazono TT, Morton S, Bozzette SA, Shapiro MF, Wenger NS “Prevalence and Predictors of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Use in Persons with HIV Infection in the U.S.” Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology. 2000; 25(2): 115-123.

Katz MH, Cunningham WE, Fleishman J, Andersen RM, Kellog T, Bozzette SA, Shapiro MF, “Effect of Case Management on Unmet Needs and Utilization of Medical Care and Medications among HIV-infected Persons.” Annals of Internal Medicine 2001;135 (8, part1): 557-165.

Gifford AL, Cunningham WE, Heslin KC, Andersen RM, Nakazono T, Lieu DK, Shapiro MF, Bozzette SA. "Participation in research and access to experimental treatments by HIV- infected patients." New England Journal of Medicine May 2002; 346(18); 1373-82.

Harawa NT, Bingham TA, Cochran SD, Greenland S, Cunningham WE. “HIV Prevalence among Foreign- and US-Born Public STD Clinic Clients” American Journal of Public Health December 2002;92(12);1958-63.

Solorio RM, Currier J, Cunningham WE. “HIV Health Care Services for Mexican Migrants.” Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes November 2004, Supplement 3.

Cunningham WE, Crystal S, Bozzette S, Hays RD. “The Association of Health-related Quality of Life with Survival among Persons with HIV Infection in the US” In press Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004.

Heslin KC, Andersen RM, Ettner Sl, Cunningham WE. “Racial and ethnic differences in access to physicians with HIV-related expertise: Findings from a nationally representative study.” In press to Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004.