Faculty List

MPH/HP Teaching Faculty

The UCLA MPH/HP program in Community Health Sciences is taught by faculty who are leaders in both public health and health promotion research and practice, including:

Diana M. Bonta, R.N., Dr.P.H. email:diana_bonta@hotmail.com

Associate Adjunct Professor, Community Health Sciences

Vice President, Public Affairs for Southern California Region, Kaiser Permanente

Former Director, California Department of Health Services

Areas of interest: Public Health Practice and Standards, Public Health Leadership and Program Development, Managerial and Policy Solutions to Community Health Issues

Linda B. Bourque, Ph.D. email:lbourque@ucla.edu

Professor, Community Health Sciences

Associate Director, UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters

Areas of interest: Community Response to Disasters, Intentional and Unintentional Injuries (e.g. sexual assault, natural disasters), Research Methodology with Emphasis on Questionnaire Design, Analysis of Survey Data, Data Processing Procedures, Ophthalmology

Aram Dobalian, Ph.D., M.P.H., J.D. email:adobalia@ucla.edu

Assistant Professor, Health Services

Areas of interest: Health Law, Health Administration Ethics, Health Policy, Long-term Care, Nursing Home Malpractice, Advance Care Planning, Public Health Emergency Preparedness

Deborah Glik, Sc.D. email:dglik@ucla.edu

Professor, Community Health Sciences

Director, UCLA Health and Media Research Group

Areas of interest: Health Promotion Communication Planning and Evaluation, Media Development, Maternal and Child Health, Child Injury, Religion and Health, International Health and Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health Problems

Snehendu B. Kar, Dr.P.H., M.Sc. email:kar@ucla.edu

Professor, Community Health Sciences

Areas of interest: Health Communication, Public Health Practice in a Multicultural Community, Acculturation and Quality of Life, International Health, Social Interventions, Population Environmental Psychology

Virginia C. Li, Ph.D. email:vcl@ucla.edu

Professor, Community Health Sciences

Areas of interest: Community Organization, Program Planning and Evaluation, Chronic Disease Prevention, Cancer Control, International Health, Family Planning and AIDS Prevention

Roberta Malmgren, Ph.D. email:malmgren@ucla.edu

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology

Areas of interest: Prevention of Age-Related Diseases Such as Stroke, Epidemiology of Unsuccessful Aging, Role of Epidemiology in Health Services Issues and Aging, Familial Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

Kevin Malotte, Dr.PH. email:kmalotte@csulb.edu

Adjunct Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences

Areas of interest: Community-based participatory research with community health members as health leaders, HIV and STD prevention intervention research including HIV counseling and testing, provider training, and use of new technologies in screening and prevention.

Donald E. Morisky, Sc.D, M.S.P.H. email:dmorisky@ucla.edu

Professor, Community Health Sciences

Areas of interest: Program Planning and Evaluation, Adherence to Medical Recommendations, AIDS Prevention, Tuberculosis and Hypertension Control, International Health

Mike Prelip, M.P.H., D.P.A., C.H.E.S. email:mprelip@ucla.edu

Acting Program Director

Associate Adjunct Professor and Field Program Supervisor, Community Health Sciences

Areas of interest: Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation, Adolescent Health Issues, Training of Public Health Practitioners, Curriculum Design, Fund Development

Paul Rosenfeld, Ph.D. email:prosenfe@ucla.edu

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Areas of interest: Fate and Transport of Contaminants in Soil, Water and Air, Risk Assessment, Air Dispersion Modeling, Odor Analysis and Control

James W. Sayre, Dr.P.H. email:jsayre@ucla.edu

Professor, Biostatistics and Radiological Sciences

Areas of interest: Computational Statistics and Database Management, Clinical Trials, Statistical Methodology in Medical Diagnostic Systems

Kimberley Shoaf, Dr.P.H. email:kshoaf@ucla.edu

Associate Adjunct Professor, Community Health Sciences

Project Director, UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters

Areas of interest: Disasters and Public Health, Reproductive Health, Child Health, Health in the Latino Community

Bonnie Taub, M.P.H., Ph.D. email:btaub@ucla.edu

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Community Health Sciences

Areas of interest: Medical Anthropology, Maternal, Teen and Child Health, Mental Health, Traditional Medicine and Shamanism, Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Human Rights, Qualitative Research Methodology, Video Ethnography and Cultural Competency

Dawn Upchurch, Ph.D. email:upchurch@ucla.edu

Professor, Community Health Sciences

Areas of interest: Adolescence, Transition to Adulthood, Women's Health, Women's Life Course, Social Contexts of Health, Research Methods and Social Demography

Steve Wallace , Ph.D. email:swallace@ucla.edu

Professor, Community Health Sciences

Areas of interest: Access to health care and health equity for older people, including projects that identify inequities in health status and in the use of long-term care for Latino, African American, Asian American, and American Indian elders; organizational capacity building projects in communities of color; and projects that investigate equity of access for the elderly to health resources within and between countries in Latin America.

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