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Antronette (Toni) Yancey, MD, MPH
Co-Director, Professor, Department of Health Services

Center Co-Director
Professor of Health Services
UCLA School of Public Health
Box 956900, A2-125 CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900
Phone: 310-206-8729/794-9284
Fax: 310-825-3317
E-mail: ayancey@ucla.edu

Antronette K. Yancey, MD, MPH is currently a professor in the Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, and is Co-Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity.  Dr. Yancey’s primary research interests are in chronic disease prevention and adolescent health promotion.  She returned to academia full-time in 2001 after five years in public health practice, first as Director of Public Health for the city of Richmond, VA, and 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 briefs, book chapters, health promotion videos, and among those, more than 75 peer-reviewed journal articles and editorials. She has generated more than $25 million in extramural funds, including four National Institutes of Health independent investigator (R01, R24) grants as principal investigator. She serves on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention and Health Literacy Roundtable, and National Physical Activity Plan Steering Committee.  She chairs the Board of Directors of the Oakland, CA-based Public Health Institute.

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 a basketball enthusiast and poet/spoken word artist published in the public health journals, Preventive Medicine and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and several newspapers. Her book of poetry and art, a collaboration with artist Todd Berrien, An Old Soul with a Young Spirit: Poetry in the era of desegregation recovery, was published in 1997 and sold out of its first printing. Her spoken word music CD, a collaboration with musicians Ciro Hurtado and Kim Jordan, was released in 2001.  Since 2006, Dr. Yancey has been a public health commentator for the local National Public Radio affiliate, KPCC.  Her second book, Instant Recess:  How to Build a Fit Nation for the 21st Century (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA), is scheduled for release in 2010.

Current Curriculum Vitae

Personal Website

Selected Publications

1. Yancey AK.  The Meta-Volition Model:  Organizational leadership is the key in getting society moving, literally!  Prev Med.  In press, 2009.
2. Yancey A, Winfield D, Larsen J, Anderson M, Jackson P, Overton J, Wilson S, Rossum A et al.  Live, learn and play:  building strategic alliances between professional sports and public health.  Prev Med  In press, 2009.
3. Gosliner W, James P, Yancey A, Kim S, Ritchie L, Studor N, Crawford P.  Impact of a staff wellness program on the nutrition and physical activity environment of child care centers. Am J Health Promot.  In press, 2009.
4. Yancey A, Cole B, Brown R, Hillier A, Williams J et al.  A cross-sectional prevalence study of ethnically-targeted and general audience obesity-related advertising.  Milbank Q 2009;87:155-84.
5. 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;5(1):A12.
6. Yancey AK, Herring RP, Lampkin A, Kyle J, Baker P, Fraser G.  Black art posters, a low-cost incentive to increase survey response rates among Blacks in large cohort study.  Prev Med 2008;46(4):370-3.
7. Yancey, AK, Pronk NP, Cole BL.  Workplace Approaches to Obesity Prevention. Handbook of Obesity Prevention: A Resource for Health Professionals. S. K. Kumanyika and R. C. Brownson. New York, NY:  Springer Publishing Company, 2007.
8. Yancey AK, Tomiyama AJ.  Overweight, obesity and sedentary behavior: A target for primary prevention in cancer control.  Sem Onc Nurs.  2007 Nov;23(4):253-63.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Yancey AK, Leslie J, Abel EK.  Obesity at the crossroads:  feminist and public health perspectives.  Signs:  Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2006;31(2):425-443.
12. 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.
13. Yancey AK, Ortega AN, Kumanyika SK.  Effective recruitment and retention of minority research participants.  Ann Rev Pub Health. 2006;27:1-28.
14. Yancey AK, Simon PA, McCarthy WJ, Lightstone AS, Fielding JE.  Ethnic & gender differences in overweight self-perception:  relationship to sedentariness.  Obes 2006;14:980-8.
15. Yancey A, Raines A, McCarthy W, Gewa C, Weber M, Fielding J. The Los Angeles Lift Off: a sociocultural environmental change intervention to increase workplace physical activity. Prev Med 2004; 38(6): 848-56.
16. Yancey A, Siegel J, McDaniel K. Ethnic identity, role models, risk & health behaviors in urban adolescents. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 2002;156:55-61.