UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health  
UCLA/RAND Prevention Research CenterUCLA / RAND Prevention Research Center  
 

Center Staff

Leadership
Roshan Bastani, PhD Send Email Director and Principal Investigator
Paul J. Chung, MD, MS Send Email Director of Research & Operations and Co-Principal Investigator
Joan Tucker, PhD Send Email Deputy Director of Research & Operations
Burton O. Cowgill, PhD Send Email Center Project Director
Jennifer Hawes-Dawson, BA Send Email Community Liaison
Marc N. Elliott, PhD Send Email Center Statistician

 

Youth Liaison
Rebecca Dudovitz, MD, MSHS  

 

Raymond Perry, MD, MSHS  

 

Scientific Advisory Board
Sandra H. Berry, MA Send Email

Senior Behavioral & Social Scientist

Lester Breslow, MD, MPH Send Email

 

Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA Send Email

 

Neal Halfon, MD, MPH Send Email

 

David E. Kanouse, PhD Send Email

Senior Behavioral Scientist

Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, PhD Send Email

 

Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD Send Email

Director, Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

Marleen Wong, LCSW, PhD  

 

 

Research Members
Megan Beckett, PhD Send Email

Behavioral & Social Scientist

Laura Bogart, PhD Send Email

Behavioral & Social Scientist

Jackie Casillas, MD, MSHS Send Email

 

Deborah A. Cohen, MD, MPH Send Email

Senior Natural Scientist

Tumaini Coker, MD, MBA Send Email

Research Affiliate

Rosalie Corona, PhD  

 

Elizabeth D'Amico, PhD Send Email

Behavioral Scientist

Kathryn Derose, PhD Send Email

Policy Researcher

Susan Ettner, PhD Send Email

 

Jose Escarce, MD, PhD Send Email

 

Craig F. Garfield, MD, MAPP  

 

Harold Green, PhD  

 

Moira Inkelas, PhD Send Email

 

Sheryl Kataoka, PhD Send Email

 

David M. Kennedy, PhD Send Email

Associate Behavioral &Social Scientist

Rebecca Kilburn, PhD Send Email

Senior Economist

David J. Klein, MS  

 

William McCarthy, PhD Send Email

 

Debra A. Murphy, PhD Send Email

 

Carlos Lerner, MD Send Email

 

Karen Chan Osilla, PhD Send Email

Associate Behavioral & Social Scientist

Andrew Parker, PhD Send Email

Associate Behavioral & Social Scientist

Anisha I. Patel, MD  

 

Rajeev Ramchand, PhD Send Email

Behavioral & Social Scientist

Theodore Robles, PhD Send Email

 

Gery W. Ryan, PhD Send Email

Senior Behavioral Scientist

Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD  

 

Rashmi Shetgiri, MD Send Email

 

Roland Sturm, PhD Send Email

Senior Economist

Kimberly E. Uyeda, MD, MPH  

 

Beverly Weidmer, MA  

 

Mitchell Wong, MD, PhD Send Email

 

Antronette Yancey, MD, MPH Send Email

 

Shahram Yazdani, MD Send Email

 

Annie J. Zhou, MS Send Email

Associate Analyst

 

Research Fellows
Rebecca Dudovitz, MD, MSHS  

 

Max Hadler, BA  

 

Camillia Lui, MPH, MA  

 

Bergen Nelson, MD, MSHS  

 

Raymond Perry, MD, MSHS  

 

Erin Saleeby, MD, MPH  

 

Samantha Wellerstein, BA  

 

 

Project Coordinator
Candice Moreno, MPH Send Email  
Lindsey R. Thompson, MPH, MS Send Email  

 

Research Assistants
Sandra Chacon, BA Send Email  
Jacinta Elijah, BA Send Email  
Vanessa Garcia, BS Send Email  

 

Administrative Assistants
Catherine M. Cruz, BA Send Email