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 […]
Smriti Abraham is a Project Coordinator focused on promoting cancer screenings and tobacco control in Southern California communities for the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. She graduated from Grand Valley State University’s School of Public Health with an MPH specializing in Epidemiology. Prior […]
Jenna Alarcon is the Project Coordinator for the Colorectal Polyp Surveillance study to improve colorectal cancer surveillance at UCLA Health. She graduated from UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health with an MPH in Community Health Sciences. Prior to working at UCLA Jonsson Cancer Comprehension Center, she worked at the Center of Culture, Trauma and Mental […]
Diana Balderas Trujillo is a program coordinator at the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. She received her B.S. in physiological sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles. She grew up in South Central Los Angeles where she was first introduced to the health disparities […]
Cindy Chang, M.S. is a senior statistician for the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. Cindy received her Master of Science in Biostatistics from UCLA. For over three decades, Cindy has been working on various medical and public health related projects involving: melanoma treatments […]
Miriam Dvorsky is a Clinical Trials Coordinator for the Colorectal Cancer Prevention NRG Oncology clinical trial, FORTE. Miriam chose to pursue a career in clinical research trials in 2015 when she started working on her first clinical research in UCLA with Dr. May in Vatche & Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases. She managed multiple research studies in […]
Alison Elliott is a project coordinator focused on multiple California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program funded projects at the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research. Her research interests include tobacco use prevention, as well as adolescent and community mental health interventions.Prior to her work at […]
Kathleen Shumaker, MSW, MPH is the project manager for the Health Equity Toolkit project at the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. She grew up in North Carolina before receiving her Bachelor’s of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University. After working in community education and youth outreach in the intimate partner violence (IPV) field, she […]
