Staff

A staff member

Ernesto Sosa, M.S.W., M.P.H.

Ernesto Sosa, M.S.W., M.P.H.

Ernesto is the Director of Community Programs. He graduated from the University of Washington with a Masters of Social Work and Masters of Public Health. Since then, his work has focused on health disparities and community health research, with a specific interest in promoting lung and colorectal cancer screening in the Latinx community. He was […]

Andrea Chirino, M.S.

Andrea Chirino, M.S.

Andrea Fernanda Chirino is a Health Educator for the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. Andrea started her academic career by attending Cerritos College, and then transferred to California State University, Long Beach for her Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences with an emphasis in Community Health. As an undergraduate student, Andrea worked as […]

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Carrie Wong, M.D.

Dr. Carrie Wong is a transplant hepatologist, fellow in the Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine, and Ph.D. candidate in 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 health from the […]

Natalie Rodgers

Natalie Rodgers

Natalie Rodgers is an undergraduate student assistant in the preschool obesity prevention project at the UCLA Kaiser Permanante Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Cancer Prevention and Research. Her role involves parent and teacher survey data entry, as well as height and weight data entry. Natalie is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UCLA […]

Jessica Tuan, M.P.H.

Jessica Tuan, M.P.H.

Jessica Tuan is a Project Coordinator primarily focusing on the Stand Up to Cancer project as well as other colorectal cancer projects for the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. She graduated with an MPH degree in the Community Health Sciences department at UCLA’s Fielding School […]

Alexandra Nordyke, BA

Alexandra Nordyke, BA

Alexandra Nordyke is a project assistant for the preschool obesity prevention project at the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. In her role she assists in data collection and management. Alexandra earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Earth Science and Dance from Bennington […]

Lina Tieu, MPH

Lina Tieu, MPH

Lina Tieu is a PhD student in Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She has an MPH in Health Policy from Emory University and a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley. Her main interests center on addressing health disparities for minority and vulnerable populations. Prior to […]

Analissa Avila

Analissa Avila

Analissa Avila is a graduate student in the Department of Biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She will graduate with her Master of Science in June 2020, and continue on with the PhD program. In her role as a Graduate Student Researcher, Analissa performs statistical analysis and data management for projects at […]

Phillip Sundin, M.S.

Phillip Sundin, M.S.

Phillip (Phil) Sundin is a Biostatistics Ph.D. student at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. He primarily works with data from an HPV vaccination project. The statistical challenges from this dataset will be the focus of his doctoral dissertation. His primary statistical research interests include the design of experiments, cluster-randomized trials, clinical trial design and […]