Faculty

Thomas R. Belin, Ph.D., is a Professor in the UCLA Department of Biostatistics and has served as departmental Vice Chair since 2012.  His methodological interests have focused on causal inference and handling incomplete data, and building on a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, his collaborative work has included wide-ranging applications […]

Dr. Beltrán-Sánchez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health and Associate Director at the California Center for Population Research, both at UCLA. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, M.S. in Mathematics from Northern Arizona University, and B.S. […]

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 […]

Dr. Jacqueline Casillas, MD, M.S.H.S., is a pediatric oncologist and a health services researcher at UCLA whose area of interest is access to care, quality of life and quality of care for long-term survivors of childhood cancer. Dr. Casillas received her medical degree from UCLA and completed her residency and fellowship at UCLA-Harbor Medical Center. […]

Kristen Choi, Ph.D., M.S., R.N., is a child/adolescent psychiatric nurse and health services researcher. Dr. Choi studies health services and policy approaches to mental health, trauma, and violence among children, adolescents, and other vulnerable populations. Her current research projects include studies on Autism Spectrum Disorder, adverse childhood experiences, the impact of trauma and violence on […]

Emmeline Chuang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management, where she directs the Ph.D. program and teaches courses on organizational theory and behavior and mixed methods research. Dr. Chuang’s research focuses on how the organization and management of health and human services affects service access and quality of care, particularly […]

Paul Chung is an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the UCLA School of Public Health and chair of health systems science at the Kaiser Permanente Medical School. He is also Research Director of the UCLA/RAND Prevention Research Center, associate director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA, and Public Policy […]

Brian Cole, Dr.P.H., is program manager and lead analyst for the Health Impact Assessment Group at the UCLA School of Public Health, conducting and providing technical assistance on  HIAs on a wide range of public policies and projects, including Living Wage Ordinances, urban redevelopment, school programs and transportation projects.  Overlapping this work in HIA, Dr. […]

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 […]