Professor
DrPH Program Director
Department of Health Services
UCLA School of Public Health
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772

Phone: 310-206-8729/794-9284
Fax: 310-825-3317
E-mail: ayancey@ucla.edu

Antronette (Toni) Yancey, MD, MPH is currently Professor, Department of Health Services, and Co-Director, Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Health Disparities (www.ph.ucla.edu/cehd), UCLA School of Public Health, and a nationally recognized leader in chronic disease prevention intervention, particularly in communities of color. She returned to academia full time in 2001 after five years in public health practice, first as city Director of Public Health, Richmond, VA, and, subsequently, as Director of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Dr. Yancey has authored more than 100 scientific publications, including more than 60 refereed journal articles and editorials. She has also generated $20 million in extramural funds, including four National Institutes of Health independent investigator (R01, R24) grants as principal investigator. She serves on the USDHHS Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Health Literacy Roundtable, the American Heart Association Physical Activity Sub-Committee, and chairs the Board of Directors, Public Health Institute. She recently completed service on Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the IOM Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity Committee. Dr. Yancey completed her undergraduate studies in biochemistry and molecular biology at Northwestern University, her medical degree at Duke, and her preventive medicine residency/MPH at UCLA. She is also a basketball enthusiast, a published poet/spoken word artist (www.toniyancey.com), and a public health commentator on local NPR affiliate, KPCC (www.kpcc.org/off-ramp).

Selected Publications

Yancey AK, Kumanyika, SK, Ponce N, McCarthy WJ, Fielding JE, Leslie JP. Population-based interventions engaging communities of color in healthy eating and active living: a review. Prev Chronic Dis 2004 Jan;1(1):A09. 2004. Epub [serial online].

Yancey A, Robinson R, Ross R, Washington R, Goodell H, Goodwin NJ, Benjamin ER, Langie RG, Galloway JM, Carroll LN, Kong BW, Leggett CJWB, Williams RA, Wong MJ. Discovering the full spectrum of cardiovascular disease: Minority Health Summit 2003: report of the Advocacy Writing Group. Circulation. 2005 Mar 15;111(10):e140-9.

Yancey AK, Lewis LB, Guinyard JJ, Sloan DC, Nascimento LM, Galloway-Gilliam L, Diamant A, McCarthy WJ. Putting promotion into practice: the African Americans Building a Legacy of Health organizational wellness program. Health Promot Prac. 2006;7(3):233S-246S.

Yancey AK, McCarthy WJ, Leslie J, Wong WK, Siegel JM, Harrison GG. Challenges in improving fitness: results of a randomized, controlled lifestyle change intervention. J Women’s Health. 2006 May;15(4):412-29.

Yancey AK, Ortega AN, Kumanyika SK. Effective recruitment and retention of minority research participants. Ann Rev Pub Health. 2006;27:1-28.

Yancey AK. Overweight, obesity and sedentary behavior: A target for primary prevention in cancer control. Sem Onc Nurs. 2007 Nov;23(4):253-63. Review.

Yancey AK. Social ecological influences on obesity control: instigating problems and informing potential solutions. Obes Management. 2007;3(2):74-79.

Yancey AK, Fielding JE, Flores GF, Sallis JF, McCarthy WJ, Breslow L. Creating a public health infrastructure for physical activity promotion: a challenge to chronic disease control policy. Am J Prev Med. 2007;32(1);68-78.

Lara A, Yancey AK, Tapia-Conyer R, Flores Y, Kuri-Morales P, Mistry R, Subirats E, McCarthy WJ. Pausa para tu salud: Reduction of weight and waistlines by integrating exercise breaks into workplace organizational routine. Prev Chronic Dis. 2008 Jan [E-pub--serial online].

Wilcox S, Laken M, Bopp M, Gethers O, Huang P, McClorin L, Parrott AW, Swinton R, Yancey A. Community-based participatory research to increase physical activity in churches. Am J Prev Med. 2007;32(2):131-8.