Core Faculty

Catherine Crespi, Ph.D.

Catherine Crespi, Ph.D.

Dr. Crespi is a Professor of Biostatistics in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and is affiliated with the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Center of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research areas include cancer prevention and control, cancer epidemiology, cancer survivorship, HIV, obesity, nutrition, physical activity, health disparities, health psychology and quality […]

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Carrie Wong, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Carrie Wong is a transplant hepatologist and fellow in the Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine. She recently completed a Ph.D. at the Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management at UCLA.  Dr. Wong received her bachelor’s degree in public […]

Folasade (Fola) May, MD, PhD, MPhil

Folasade (Fola) May, M.D., Ph.D., M.Phil.

Dr. Fola May is an Assistant Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine and an Associate Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. She received a B.A. in Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology from Yale University before obtaining a Masters of Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge (UK) where she studied […]

William J. McCarthy, Ph.D.

William J. McCarthy, Ph.D.

Dr. McCarthy has devoted most of his 30-year career to intervention studies designed to encourage members of special populations to adhere to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (African American adult women, low-income middle school students, low-income patients of community health centers) and to be smokefree (WIC participants, aerospace workers, Korean and […]

Roshan Bastani, Ph.D.

Roshan Bastani, Ph.D.

Dr. Roshan Bastani, Ph.D., is a professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. In the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, she is Director for Disparities and Community Engagement and Co-Director for […]

Barbara Berman, Ph.D.

Barbara Berman, Ph.D.

Dr. Barbara Berman’s research focuses on tobacco prevention among high risk adolescents and young adults, low-income multi-ethnic populations, and deaf and hard of hearing youth. Berman also works on developing effective cancer prevention and control programming, with a current emphasis on breast health and breast cancer, for adult populations. These cancer prevention and control programs […]

Beth Glenn, PhD

Beth Glenn, Ph.D.

Dr. Beth Glenn is a professor of Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Co-Director for Community Outreach and Engagement in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA, and Associate Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. The focus of her work is on conducting scientifically rigorous, […]

Alison Herrmann, Ph.D., M.S.

Alison Herrmann, Ph.D., M.S.

Alison Herrmann, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Associate Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity (Equity Center) in the Fielding School of Public Health. She is also Co-Director of Community Outreach, Education and Disparities in the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. […]

Burt Cowgill, Ph.D.

Burt Cowgill, Ph.D.

Dr. Cowgill is an adjunct assistant professor who resides in the UCLA Kaiser Permanent Center for Health Equity and Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research in the Jonson Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also an active member of the UCLA Semel Healthy Campus Initiative. Dr. Cowgill has extensive experience working with community-based organizations in […]

Yvonne Flores, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Yvonne Flores, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Yvonne Flores, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and a research scientist at the Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. She is also a member of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Additionally, Dr. Flores is an investigator at the […]