JUNE 2001 - UCLA School of Public Health

UCLA
PUBLIC HEALTH
JUNE 2001
UCLA
School of
Public
Health
Everyone’s talking
about a public
health approach
to violence, and
the School’s
faculty, students
and alumni are
showing the way.
No one can
agree on how
to arrive at final
census figures.
The stakes
are huge. Enter
Thomas Belin.
Heal the Bay’s
Mark Gold uses
“impact science”
to clear the
murky waters
off of Santa
Monica.

UCLA
PUBLIC HEALTH
Albert Carnesale, Ph.D.
Chancellor
Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean, UCLA School of Public Health
Julie Tisdale Pardi, M.A.
Assistant Dean for Communications
Dan Gordon
Editor and Writer
Martha Widmann
Art Director
features
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Roshan Bastani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Health Services
Thomas R. Belin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
William Hinds, Ph.D.
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Jeffrey Luck, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Health Services
Hal Morgenstern, Ph.D.
Professor, Epidemiology
Corinne Peek-Asa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Michael Prelip, D.P.A.
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Community Health Sciences
Susan B. Sorenson, Ph.D.
Professor, Community Health Sciences
Mara Baer
President,
Public Health Students Association
Joyce A. Page, M.S.P.H., J.D.
Alumni Association President
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Current Events
Discussions of the hot
topics of the day make
the lectures, forums and
seminars of the Healthcare
Collaborative at UCLA
can’t-miss affairs for a
growing constituency.
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Thomas Belin:
Counting on a
Controversy
Sparks fly every 10 years
over the high-stakes question
of how to tally the U.S.
population. One School
of Public Health faculty
member is among a select
group of experts advising
the U.S. Census Bureau.

When the
Best Medicine
Is Public Health
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The national shortage
of physicians trained
in public health is being
addressed at the School,
where M.D.’s find a
variety of good reasons
to enroll.
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Striking a
Blow Against
Violence
It’s no longer seen as
random or inevitable.
Public health leaders,
including the School’s
faculty, students and
alumni, are showing that
prevention approaches
can successfully tackle
a formidable foe.
Pillars of the
Community
19
Four years ago, Robert
and Marion Wilson made
a generous donation
to support students in
community-based health
improvement efforts.
The impact of their gift
can be seen in neighborhoods
across the region.
departments
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RESEARCH
Arsenic and cancer...chiropractic
vs. medical care for
lower-back pain...impact of
mental health, coordination
of care for elderly veterans...
boron lowers prostate cancer
risk...HIV treatment disparities...ethnic
identity linked
to good health...health-risk
factors greater for lesbians.
ALUMNI
Heal the Bay’s Mark Gold
FACULTY
STUDENTS
FRIENDS
ON THE COVER
High school students rising up to protest the rape of a classmate is but one example of the more
activist approach being taken to preventing violence. Thanks to public health researchers and professionals,
violence is now seen as neither random nor inevitable. Protest photo courtesy of the
Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women. Police tape from Eyewire. Shattered glass
from PhotoDisc. Cover image created by Martha Widmann.
PHOTOGRAPHY
ASUCLA / TOC: Current Events, Wilsons; p. 9; p. 19: Wilsons; p. 24: Rosenstock/Factor/Katzin
Yvette Roman / cover: Belin, Gold; TOC: Belin, Ko, human target; p. 2; p.10; pp. 12-13; pp. 16-17:
students with human target; p. 21; p. 22: Que Hee; p. 23: Souleles; p. 28
Reed Hutchinson / cover: Peek-Asa; p. 17: Peek-Asa
Mary Ann Stuehrmann / p. 24: Bixby Foundation Trustees, Salinas/Gillespie
Courtesy of Daily Bruin / pp. 16, 22: Sorenson
Courtesy of LACAAW / pp. 14-15: protest
Courtesy of Alina Bueno / p. 18
Courtesy of Rachel Gonzales / p. 19: Project E.M.P.A.C.T.
Courtesy of Myra Bastidas / p. 20
Courtesy of the School of Public Health / p. 23: college bowl; pp. 26, 29
PhotoDisc / pp. 5, 6
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dean’s message
IN THIS FIRST ISSUE of the new UCLA Public Health
Magazine, we have captured many of the year’s successes. The School is in a strong
position — ranked 7th in the nation among schools of public health — and is
poised to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
UCLAPUBLIC HEALTH
UCLA
School of
Public
Health
Since my arrival on November 1, 2000,
I have been working to not only ensure our continued
prominence in the field, but to elevate the School to
an even higher level. In these first seven months we
have made a great deal of progress. The School is in
the middle of a strategic planning process that will
help clarify our vision for the future. The final plan,
which will be available in the fall, will incorporate
input from internal and external audiences. We are
also undertaking an administrative review to help us
ensure that the School is running most efficiently.
While specific goals and objectives will be
articulated through the strategic plan, we have
already begun to make progress in a few broad areas
that I emphasized throughout my recruitment
process. One is to increase the visibility of the School
and the field of public health. To that end, we have
developed a logo for the School (below left) and produced
documents such as a new School brochure,
new SPH magazine, and a reformatted newsletter to
help us better communicate with our many partners.
Another area for emphasis is increased extramural
research funding. The School has been successful
in securing extramural funds (see the graph on next page). Of the UCLA professional
schools, the School of Public Health currently has the third-largest extramural
research budget. As new state money becomes less of a certainty —
especially in light of the California energy crisis — our ability to secure other
sources of funding is not only important to enable us to conduct cutting-edge
research and training, but also necessary to ensure the growth and sustainability

DEAN’S
ADVISORY
BOARD
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ANDREW ALLOCCO, JR.*
IRA ALPERT*
LINNAE ANDERSON
DIANA BONTÁ*
LESTER BRESLOW
ROBERT DRABKIN
TOM EPLEY
GERALD FACTOR, Vice Chair
ROBERT GILLESPIE
ROGER F. GREAVES
JOANNE HALE
TERRY O. HARTSHORN*
of the School. To assist the School in increasing its extramural
ALAN HOPKINS*
funding by finding new opportunities and facilitating faculty STEPHEN W. KAHANE*
grant-getting success, I have created a new Associate Dean for
CAROLYN KATZIN,* Chair
CAROLBETH KORN*
Research position.
EDWARD J. O’NEILL*
I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome three
WALTER OPPENHEIMER
new members to the Dean’s Advisory Board: Linnae Anderson, FRED WASSERMAN*
Tom Epley, and Joanne Hale. They join our Board (see the entire
* SPH Alumni
list on this page) just as we begin one of our most ambitious projects
— raising $30 million for a new School of Public Health
Building. The current building suffered significant damage in the 1994 Northridge
earthquake and will be replaced as part of the overall seismic rebuilding of the
Center for the Health Sciences. In addition to the seismic issues posed by the current
facility, we have simply outgrown our current space. Working with the university,
we have accelerated the planning of a new building. Based on available
funding and continued planning, a new School of Public Health Building will be
located adjacent to a new Medical Education Building across Westwood from the
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
new hospital. This proximity to the new medical school will allow for continued
Grants and Contracts
academic collaboration and sharing of resources. The new state-of-the art building
will play a critical role in ensuring the School’s continued success, helping to
State Generated Funds
maintain our research competitiveness and attracting the best talent to the School.
Gifts and Other
I look forward to keeping you posted on the School’s activities, and invite you
to communicate your thoughts on our strategic planning process or other activities
through our Web site at www.ph.ucla.edu.
Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean
Fiscal Year 1999-2000 = $24 million
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research highlights
Mortality Rate Ratios
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100
10
RELATION BETWEEN ARSENIC
EXPOSURE AND CANCER RISK
MALES
Skin
Bladder
Kidney
Lung
Liver
0 200 400 600 800
0 200 400 600 800
Well Water Arsenic Concentration (parts per billion)
100
Cancer mortality rate ratios, 1973-1986
(relative to rates in the Taiwanese general
population), for the population of the
blackfoot disease endemic area of
Taiwan, according to well water arsenic
concentration (parts per billion).
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FEMALES
Genetics Key to Arsenic’s Cancer-Causing Ability
THE LATEST IN A DECADE-LONG SERIES OF STUDIES by Dr. John Froines on
the carcinogenicity of arsenic suggests that certain individuals are more genetically
susceptible than others to the cancer-causing effects of the compound.
“Based on our results, the ability of humans to metabolize arsenic — that is,
to detoxify it — varies within the population, and appears to be an important factor
in the carcinogenesis of arsenic,” says Froines, Professor of Environmental
Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health.
Arsenic is found in the drinking water of certain parts of the country, particularly
in arid states in the West. Unsafe
levels of the compound can cause cancer
and other diseases. A 1999 report
by the National Academy of Sciences
linked high levels of arsenic to bladder,
Bladder lung and skin cancer, and possibly kidney
and liver cancer.
Kidney
The Bush Administration outraged
many environmentalists and public
Skin health leaders earlier this year when it
announced it was rescinding a Clinton
Administration decree lowering the
Lung amount of arsenic allowed in the
nation’s drinking water, declaring that
more studies were needed to determine
Liver safe levels. Current regulations allow
arsenic in tap water at a level of 50 parts
per billion. The Clinton Administration
ruling lowered the level to 10 parts per
billion, the standard also adopted by the
European Union and the World Health
Organization.
Froines’ most recent study analyzed
two years’ worth of data on animals
exposed to different concentrations of arsenic. While some of the animals
had regular diets, others consumed diets that were methyl-deficient — low in
folic acid, methionine, and choline. In previous research, Froines had found that
arsenic exposure changes animals’ methylation of DNA, affecting genes possibly
related to cancer. Preliminary results from the follow-up study indicate that
the arsenic-exposed animals on methyl-deficient diets developed liver cancer. In
addition, the methyl deficiency alone was enough to produce lung cancer,
regardless of whether there was arsenic exposure.
Froines intends to continue looking at the role of DNA methylation and the
mechanistic features of arsenic-related diseases. By performing molecular biology
experiments on the animal tissues from the most recent studies, he hopes
to shed light on the gene or genes involved in arsenic-related cancers. But while
his work continues, Froines believes the evidence is already more than sufficient
to lower the federal drinking water standard. “From a human health risk-assessment
standpoint, the standard should probably be somewhere between 1 and 5
parts per billion,” he contends. “At the 10-20 parts per billion level being discussed,
there is evidence for increased risk of cancer. Normally, one would want
to set a standard considerably below that for public health protection.”

Chiropractic Care Appears Slightly More Effective
Than Medical Care for Treating Low-Back Pain
PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM A UCLA School of Public Health study comparing
the effectiveness of medical and chiropractic care for low-back pain indicate
that chiropractic care may be slightly more effective, and physical therapy
may be marginally more effective than medical care alone for reducing disability
in some patients. Physical modalities such as heat therapy, electrical muscle
stimulation, and ultrasound do not appear to yield additional clinical benefit for
chiropractic patients, though perceived treatment effectiveness was somewhat
greater in these groups.
Low-back pain affects the majority of Americans at some point in their lives,
and thousands every year become disabled because of chronic pain. Moreover,
the rate of disabling back pain has increased steadily in recent years. “Although
back-pain sufferers have many treatment options available, there is little scientific
evidence showing which of the most common approaches is most effective,”
says Dr. Eric Hurwitz, who conducted the study along with his colleague in the
Department of Epidemiology, Dr. Hal Morgenstern, and collaborators from the
School of Public Health and School of Medicine.
Hurwitz notes that back-pain sufferers may receive prescriptions for
painkillers or muscle relaxants from conventional medical providers, or a referral
to physical therapy. Still other patients may visit an alternative or complementary
provider, such as a chiropractor or acupuncturist — indeed, more visits for back
pain are to chiropractors than to any other type of health-care provider. The relative
therapeutic benefits of each therapy, however, have not been known.
From 1995 through 1998, a total of 681 low-back-pain patients were
enrolled in the study and randomly assigned to one of four treatment protocols:
medical care with and without physical therapy, and chiropractic care with and
without physical modalities. Patients were followed up through 18 months.
The researchers are now analyzing the data to address other objectives,
including the cost effectiveness of low-back-pain care and the influence of occupational
and psychosocial factors on low-back-pain prognosis. Patients’ satisfaction
with care and their perceptions of treatment effectiveness and how these
relate to clinical outcomes are also being investigated.
Mental Health, Coordination of Care Reduce
Health Costs for Elderly Veterans Group
INTERDISCIPLINARY MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT and care coordination
can help to reduce health care costs for elderly veterans who have undiagnosed
psychiatric conditions, according to a large randomized clinical trial involving
more than 1,600 elderly veterans hospitalized in nine Veterans Administration
sites across the country.
Dr. Gerald F. Kominski and colleagues at the UCLA School of Public Health
evaluated data from a national clinical demonstration project with the VA known
as the Unified Psychogeriatric Biopsychosocial Evaluation and Treatment
(UPBEAT) program. The program, which took place from 1995 to 1998 and was
headed by Dr. Lissy Jarvik of UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute, provided individualized
interdisciplinary mental health treatment and care coordination to elderly
veterans with acute non-psychiatric conditions whose accompanying
depression, anxiety, or alcohol abuse could result in overuse of inpatient services
and underuse of outpatient services.
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Low-back pain affects the majority of
Americans at some point in their lives,
and thousands every year become
disabled because of chronic pain.
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assessment and proactive mental health care coordination by a multidisciplinary
clinical team trained in psychogeriatrics, including nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists,
and social workers. UPBEAT began once the patient was discharged from
the hospital and was based on a comprehensive treatment plan that included regular
telephone or face-to-face contact between the patient and an assigned clinician.
This clinician acted as mental health care coordinator with patients, families,
and primary care providers; facilitated and monitored ambulatory care; and provided
continuity of care for both mental health and physical health.
Kominski, Associate Professor of Health Services, found that because of
UPBEAT’s emphasis on increased use of appropriate ambulatory care, veterans
in the program had increased outpatient costs of $1,171 when compared with
control-group patients. However, inpatient costs were significantly lower for the
UPBEAT group, producing an overall savings of $1,856. Inpatient savings
resulted from shorter lengths of stay rather than fewer admissions.
Veterans with the most severe disease burden, defined as having one or
more hospitalizations both before and after initial study enrollment, benefited the
most from UPBEAT, with an overall savings of more than $6,000.
“The care coordination that was an essential element of UPBEAT appears
to accelerate the transition from inpatient to outpatient care for veterans with
acute non-psychiatric admissions,” says Kominski, the lead author of the study
(published in the journal Medical Care), who was joined in the effort by Drs.
Ronald Andersen and Roshan Bastani. “The next step is to determine whether
screening for, and treating, undiagnosed psychiatric conditions among veterans
in ambulatory care settings proves to be more effective in reducing symptoms.”
Diets High in Boron Lower Risk for Prostate Cancer
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Boron can be
found in nuts,
avocados, red
and white wine,
grapes, peaches,
nectarines, plums
and apples.
THE FIRST EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY TO LOOK AT THE RELATIONSHIP
between dietary boron intake and prostate cancer has found that individuals with
the highest boron intake (the top 25%) had a 65% lower risk of developing prostate
cancer than did individuals with the lowest boron intake (the bottom 25%).
Epidemiologist Zuo-Feng Zhang and colleagues at the UCLA School of
Public Health used data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey to compare a group of 76 prostate cancer patients with 7,651 men without
cancer. Dietary boron intake was estimated based on dietary history, and the
results were adjusted for the effects of age, race, education, cigarette smoking,
body mass index, and total dietary intake of calories.
Although the study involved a relatively small number of patients with
prostate cancer, Zhang says there was a clear relationship between boron intake
and the disease: The lower the amount of boron consumed in the diet, the higher
the risk for prostate cancer. The relationship was also very specific to prostate
cancer. Consuming higher or lower amounts of boron did not appear to affect the
likelihood of cancers of the breast, cervix, uterus, colon and rectum.
Boron is present in the diet because it is an essential nutrient for plants and
a natural component of plant cells. Foods high in boron include those associated
with the Mediterranean diet such as nuts, avocados, red and white wine, grapes,
peaches, nectarines, plums and apples.
Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men after skin cancer,
and the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the United States after
lung cancer.
Zhang was joined on the study by Dr. Curtis Eckhert, Chair of the
Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the School, who initiated the
research. According to Eckhert, boron’s ability to lower the risk of prostate cancer
may be related to its role in cell division and growth. His laboratory has
shown that fertilized eggs require boron to develop into embryos; he is currently
studying the role of boron in gene expression.

Disadvantaged Groups Less Likely
to Get State-of-the-Art HIV Treatment
HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTI-RETROVIRAL THERAPY (HAART), the state of the art
in HIV treatment, is less likely to be used by certain socioeconomically disadvantaged
groups, according to the latest findings to come out of a large national
research consortium based at UCLA and RAND. The recent study, headed by Dr.
William Cunningham of the Schools of Public Health and Medicine, found that
the major factor predicting lower use among populations was lack of insurance
coverage.
HAART, the drug cocktail that contains protease inhibitors, has been shown
in other studies to improve health outcomes among people with HIV.
Cunningham’s group found that by the end of 1996, the year protease inhibitors
became widely available, 37% of patients reported that they had
taken the medication. Interviews with the same patients in
January 1998 found that 71% had ever been on the medication.
But the proportion of patients still taking HAART at the time of
the second interview was only 53%.
Moreover, certain groups were least likely to be taking the
drug combination: African Americans, drug users, women who
contracted HIV through heterosexual contact, people with less
education, the uninsured, and those covered by Medicaid. While
insurance was the key determinant in this study, another study by
the group identified other barriers to HAART use, including transportation
and having competing subsistence needs. “Insofar as
there are non-clinical explanations for these disparities, this fits a
pattern we have observed both in HIV and in other diseases, in
which the most socioeconomically disadvantaged groups are not
getting the best treatment,” Cunningham says. His group is now
studying the effect of these differences on outcomes, and examining
interventions that could address the problem, including the
use of case managers to ensure more coordinated and comprehensive
care.
The research is part of the HIV Cost and Services Utilization
Study, in which a national consortium of investigators, funded by
the federal Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, has been examining
HIV/AIDS health services. Cunningham has led the access section along with Dr.
Ronald Andersen, Chair of the UCLA School of Public Health’s Department of
Health Services.
Strong Ethnic Identity Among African American
Women Is Linked to Good Mental, Physical Health
A UCLA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH STUDY EXAMINING the relationship
between obesity and depression in African American women links, for the first
time, good mental and physical health with strong feelings of ethnic identity.
The study, supported by a National Cancer Institute grant and published in
Preventive Medicine, surveyed 429 Los Angeles women from a culturally tailored
program promoting healthful eating and exercise. The research team, headed by
Drs. Antronette K. Yancey and Judith M. Siegel, found an inverse relationship
between depression and strong ties to the African American community, independent
of other demographic and health factors. Their survey found the lowest
levels of depression among women with strong ethnic identity and less excess
weight.
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PERCENTAGE OF AFRICAN
AMERICANS AND WHITES WHO
EVER RECEIVED HAART
20%
DEC 1996 JAN 1998
African Americans
47%
Whites
59%
78%
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“Ethnic-identity enhancement strategies should be studied for their effectiveness
in strengthening identity and for their potential in attracting individuals
especially likely to benefit from programs that promote healthier lifestyles,” says
Yancey, an Associate Professor at the School and Director of the Division of
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the Los Angeles County
Department of Health Services.
For people of color, a strong sense of ethnic identity may buffer the impact
of discrimination on psychological well-being, the research suggests, as well as
playing an indirect role in protecting individuals from physical risks such as high
blood pressure. Other studies have shown that differences in blood pressure
between blacks and whites are partially explained by exposure to racial discrimination
and responses to unfair treatment.
“The positive experience of cultural sensitivity in the health intervention program,
in contrast with the experience of cultural insensitivity or discrimination in
everyday life, helps create positive attitudes toward the program and increases
the likelihood of sticking with its objectives,” says Siegel, a Professor in the
Department of Community Health Sciences.
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LESBIANS AND BISEXUAL WOMEN
HAVE GREATER HEALTH RISK
FACTORS THAN EXPECTED
Ever pregnant
Ever gave live birth
Ever used birth control pills
Current cigarette smoker
Overweight
Drinks alcohol
Has health insurance
RISK INDICATORS FOR U.S. WOMEN
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Lesbian/Bisexual Women All Women
Lesbians and Bisexual Women at Greater Risk
for Smoking- and Obesity-Related Diseases
HEALTH-RISK PATTERNS AND LOWER RATES OF IMPORTANT screenings
among lesbians and bisexual women leave them at greater risk of cancer and
other chronic diseases linked to smoking and obesity than heterosexual women,
according to a UCLA School of Public Health study.
The study, led by Dr. Susan D. Cochran and published in the
American Journal of Public Health, showed that lesbian and bisexual
women have higher rates of obesity, alcohol use and tobacco
use than other women, and are less likely to have health insurance
coverage or to have had a recent pelvic examination or
mammogram. Self-reported histories of breast cancer, however,
did not differ from estimates for the general U.S. female population.
“A key, and unexpected, finding is that lesbians and bisexual
women are more likely to be current or former tobacco smokers
than women in general,” says Cochran. “The effects of cigarette
smoking on health are broad and well documented. Considered
in conjunction with other risk factors, such as obesity and alcohol
use, these finding raise new concerns about the health needs
of lesbians and bisexual women.”
Data were drawn from seven independent surveys conducted
between 1987 and 1996 involving lesbian/bisexual health
issues. The surveys assessed patterns of health screening,
smoking and alcohol-use history, pregnancy, birth control and
parity, prevalence of obesity, and breast cancer history.
“Health care for women is organized around contraceptive
needs, which bring women periodically into the health system,” says Cochran.
“But lesbians typically don’t have contraceptive needs.”
She also suggests that negative past experiences with the health care system
might make lesbians more reluctant to get regular care. “For lesbians, experiences
during late adolescence and early adulthood are likely to include
exhortation to use contraceptives, disclosure of sexual orientation and provider
discomfort or negative behaviors,” Cochran says.
“If public health truly is for everyone, the results of this study demand the
development of culturally competent educational campaigns and health care
services to address the needs of this community.”

The Healthcare
Collaborative at UCLA
facilitates the exchange
of information and services
to enhance the development
of health care professionals
and organizations
in California. The
Collaborative sponsors
events on a variety of
relevant topics, featuring
speakers who are publicand
private-sector health
care leaders.
• The Quarterly Forum
(no fee) focuses on major
policy issues, with speakers
from the national,
state, and local levels.
The morning event
includes breakfast and
time for networking.
• The Management Series
(no fee) addresses the
latest issues challenging
the health care community,
specifically managers.
These monthly evening
seminars are held at UCLA.
• Health Care Business
Seminars are all-day
events, tackling timely
issues from multiple
perspectives.
For more information
or to be added to The
Healthcare Collaborative
at UCLA’s mailing list, visit
the group’s Web site at
www.healthcarecollab.org
or call (310) 206-3435.
It’s where State Controller Kathleen Connell
chose to deliver an address on “The State of Health Care in California.” Where
speakers from the state’s Department of Managed Health Care and a panel consisting
of managed-care industry and provider representatives outlined
“Responsibilities, Priorities and Future Directions.” Where three physicians with
a combined 60 years of experience as medical directors spoke of “Healthcare
Survival: Solvency at Stake.”
Current
Events
Whether the topic at hand relates to health policy, management challenges
or e-health (the subject of a second day-long conference this spring), one thing
doesn’t change. For professionals looking to keep their finger on the pulse of the
rapidly changing health care industry, the monthly and quarterly events held by
The Healthcare Collaborative at UCLA are not to be missed.
Attendees include students, alumni, faculty and
staff of the UCLA School of Public Health and the
Anderson School at UCLA, along with more than
5,000 members of the Southern California health
care community. There are physicians, nurses,
lawyers, and executives from health plans, hospitals,
medical groups, consulting firms, pharmaceutical
companies, and ancillary health care providers.
“It’s a great place to exchange information and
ideas, a chance to meet people from other organizations
and see how they’re confronting similar problems,”
says Dr. Gail P. Grant, Medical Director of
the Resource and Outcomes Management
Department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and
Chair of The Healthcare Collaborative at UCLA.
Indeed, the opportunity for dialogue on timely
topics between presenters and attendees — and among the attendees themselves
— is a major part of the attraction, says Joseph Rooks, a management consultant
who chairs the committee responsible for the quarterly forums and monthly
management lecture series. “It’s a great place to network,” says Rooks.
The Collaborative’s roots date to the mid-1980s, when a small group of
physicians and alumni from the School of Public Health began to hold monthly
lunch meetings where physician executives spoke on the day’s relevant topics.
Soon the group grew beyond physicians to include business leaders and health
care executives from all of Southern California.
“Eventually we turned the planning over to the attendees themselves,” says
Dr. Paul Torrens, the faculty member who spearheaded the early efforts, and
whose Center for Health Services Management continues to provide the administrative
support. “It’s really wonderful and quite unique.”
Among the beneficiaries are students, many of whom attend the events.
Says Marcus Fong, one of two student representatives on the Collaborative’s
executive committee: “It is important for all students to see the changing face of
health care. This brings real-life experiences to the program.”
DISCUSSIONS OF
THE HOT TOPICS
OF THE DAY MAKE
THE LECTURES,
FORUMS AND
SEMINARS OF THE
HEALTHCARE
COLLABORATIVE
AT UCLA CAN’T-
MISS AFFAIRS
FOR A GROWING
CONSTITUENCY.
Above: One of the Healthcare
Collaborative’s quarterly breakfast
forums. Top of page, l. to r.:
Joseph Rooks, Series Committee
Chair; Dr. Gail Grant,
Chair of the Collaborative; and
Dr. Paul Torrens of the
School’s faculty, who helped to
initiate the group. Upper left
photo, l. to r.: Dr. Ross Miller, a
1998 graduate of the School’s
M.P.H. for Health Professionals
Program; Dr. Stuart P.
Bowne, Adjunct Professor in
that program; and Torrens.
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SPARKS FLY
EVERY 10 YEARS
OVER THE
HIGH-STAKES
QUESTION OF
HOW TO TALLY
THE
U.S.
POPULATION.
ONE SCHOOL OF
PUBLIC HEALTH
FACULTY MEMBER
IS AMONG A
SELECT GROUP
OF EXPERTS
ADVISING THE
U.S. CENSUS
BUREAU.
Thomas Belin:
Counting on a Controversy
In the census of 1790, directed by then-Secretary of State
Thomas Jefferson, household rosters were posted in town squares so that people could catch errors in the
count. Still, Jefferson wrote in 1791, “We know that the omissions have been very great.”
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Political battle over census counts dates at least to the first use of the presidential veto, when George
Washington blocked the original bill to reapportion the young Congress. In more recent censuses the battle
has been waged over what to do about the undercount, specifically, of minority and inner-city residents.
Since 1950, post-census surveys following each of the decennial head counts have found that these populations
are disproportionately shortchanged. This has led to calls to adjust the original numbers using statistical
formulas and sample-based evidence. But a Clinton Administration plan to use sampling in the 2000 census
to follow up households that failed to return a census form led to the threat of a government shutdown and
a lawsuit that ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court ruled that adjusted counts can’t be considered
in apportioning Congress, but left the door open for other uses. The issue flared up again earlier this
year, when the Census Bureau recommended against releasing adjusted counts for state redistricting.

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Why so much bickering over the ritual counting
process? Many observers suspect that adjusted figures
would help Democrats, since the undercounted
are disproportionately from groups likely to support
Democratic candidates. But more than that, the outcome
determines the fate of some $200 billion in
federal funds for local services, including many that
affect public health.
Dr. Thomas Belin, Associate Professor of
Biostatistics at the UCLA School of Public Health,
first became interested in census issues upon reading
an opinion piece while an undergraduate at Stanford
University in the mid-1980s. When he started
graduate school at Harvard, he learned of a new
campus research program on statistical problems
related to census adjustment. He approached the
professor in charge and joined the research team.
While at Harvard, Belin took a series of summer
jobs at the U.S. Census Bureau, work that grew into
his dissertation project. Since coming to UCLA he
has continued to serve the Census Bureau in a
consulting capacity. Recently, Belin was one of
nine experts chosen from the American Statistical
Association to sit on the Census Advisory Committee
of Professional Associations, which will offer recommendations
with a view toward the 2010 census.
Although biostatisticians are frequently called
on to quantify uncertainties, the census carries a
set of thorny issues unlike any of the other projects
he tackles. Says Belin: “The stakes are incredibly
high. There’s a political context. There are a lot of
messy details because of the complexity of the census
and the country. And there is not a single right
way to do it.”
It is often left to statistical experts such as
Belin to devise formulas for resolving the undercount
uncertainties. Yet, statisticians themselves
can’t agree on what is the “best” adjustment formula.
Adjustment critics use this lack of consensus to
argue that given the subjectivity of adjustment models,
the fairest system is to stick with the original
head count. “But maybe there’s some subjectivity
in that as well,” Belin says. Statisticians often talk
of a trade-off between bias and variance, he notes.
Variance refers to uncertainty in value; bias means
systematic departure from the truth. “In a lot of
statistical procedures, bias and variance are treated
equally,” Belin says. “But in this context, I think
there’s an argument that variance is more fair than
bias. We know in advance of the census that the
white population is going to be counted more
accurately than the African American and Hispanic
populations. That’s bias. It means that going in, you
know that cities such as Los Angeles are going to
be losers relative to other communities.”
As to how the decision should be made over
what adjustment formula to use — or whether
to use one at all — Belin would prefer that it be
left with the professionals at the
Census Bureau. “It doesn’t go to the
Congressional committees to decide
when to launch the space shuttle; that
decision is made by scientists,” he says.
“On the census issue, I would like
the decision also to be vested close
to the science, rather than driven by
partisan politics.”
Although many advocates
for disenfranchised populations were
unhappy with the Census Bureau’s
recommendation this spring against
using the adjusted counts for state
redistricting, Belin, having worked
with many of the decision-makers,
is adamant that the decision was not
a bow to pressure from the Bush
Administration. “In 2000, the differential undercount
between whites and minorities of roughly
2.5% was about half the level in previous censuses,
and there were previously unseen inconsistencies
between demographic analysis and coverage survey
findings,” Belin notes. Given that adjustment still
apparently yields gains in accuracy for large jurisdictions,
Belin says he would not be surprised if the
Census Bureau supports adjustment in a decision
pending this fall regarding the mid-decade population
estimates used in many funding formulas.
Despite his misgivings about the way that
politics has dominated recent discussions of the
census to the exclusion of the underlying science,
Belin — who admits to being something of a political
junkie himself — doesn’t deny that politics will
always surround the census. “The Constitution vests
in Congress the power to ‘direct’ the census,” he
notes. Belin is grateful to be contributing to the
debate. “My interest in statistics sprang from a
broader interest in the kinds of questions statistics
can address,” he says. “Being in a field that bears
on important issues of self-governance, not to
mention the crucial issues of health and well-being
we confront in the School of Public Health, has
been wonderfully fulfilling.”
“The stakes are
incredibly high.
There’s a political
context. There are
a lot of messy
details because of
the complexity of
the census and the
country. And there
is not a single right
way to do it.”
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When the Best Medicine
Is Public Health
THE NATIONAL
SHORTAGE OF
PHYSICIANS
TRAINED IN
PUBLIC HEALTH
IS BEING
ADDRESSED AT
THE SCHOOL,
WHERE M.D.’S
FIND A VARIETY
OF GOOD
REASONS TO
ENROLL.
During his training as a general and
colorectal surgeon in the mid-1990s, Dr. Clifford Ko (pictured above) was struck
by the variability in the care patients received.
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“It seemed as if no one was measuring the quality of care,” he says. “Most
physicians treat individual patients, and try to do the best they can with each
one. But someone has to look at the bigger picture to determine what’s the most
appropriate use of resources.”
Ko decided he would help to fill that void. So, while practicing as a surgeon
at UCLA Medical Center, he is an M.P.H. student in the Department of Health
Services at the UCLA School of Public Health, preparing to venture into territory
barely charted.
“Most research that surgeons do is basic science — they play with test tubes
and operate on rats,” Ko quips. “A few surgeons have M.P.H.’s, but they don’t use
them. I’m one of the few who plans to do surgery and use my public health
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There is a national shortage of physicians
trained in general preventive medicine and public
health, according to recent Congressional testimony
presented by the Association of Schools of Public
Health. At UCLA, that shortage is being addressed
through several programs that sponsor physicians
pursuing public health degrees. Ko is part of UCLA’s
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program,
which develops researchers interested in the nonbiological
aspects of health care.
“Physicians are in a unique position to bridge
the gap between patient care and population health,”
says Dr. John Chang. While in medical school at
Northwestern University in the early 1990s, Chang
had a summer job in which he helped conduct
epidemiologic research in the elderly. “I was working
with a woman who had an M.P.H., and as she was
showing me the ropes I was thinking, ‘This is something
I should learn,’” he explains. So Chang took
a break from medical school to get his M.P.H. at
Yale, returned to complete his M.D., finished his
internal medicine residency in 1999, and is now in
the Ph.D. program at the UCLA School of Public
Health, funded by a National Research Service
Award training grant.
He intends to become an academic general
internist, with a research focus on chronic disease
prevention and improving quality of care for the
elderly. “We have an aging society, and it’s becoming
increasingly important to help elderly in the
community stay as high-functioning as possible,”
Chang asserts.
Dr. Ruth Hertzman-Miller also became interested
in public health while in medical school. “I
tried bench research, but it didn’t grab me,” she says.
Two summer jobs did — one in the Department of
Occupational Medicine at George Washington
University, screening boilermakers for hearing loss,
and another at the Food and Drug Administration,
looking at vaccine safety. Drawn to the clinical
research, Hertzman-Miller applied to the Clinical
Scholars Program after completing her internal
medicine residency, and is now an M.P.H. candidate
in the School’s Department of Epidemiology.
For many M.D.’s, public health education can
be an eye-opener. Dr. Mary Ann Limbos (M.P.H.
’97) had just completed a pediatrics residency when
she entered the School’s Child and Family Health
Program in 1995. The program provides interdisci-
plinary training in maternal and child health practice,
research and policy analysis for health professionals.
“Before I got the M.P.H., I was very much a
physician who focused on treating individual children,”
says Limbos. “That program really broadened
my scope of thinking by helping me to realize that
with the interventions that could come out of that
training, you affect an entire population.”
Limbos is now at Children’s Hospital in Los
Angeles, splitting her time between seeing patients
and doing research on injuries in the Los Angeles
Unified School District (see page 16). “The first
time I ever heard of injury prevention as a science
was when Dr. [Jess] Kraus [Professor of Epidemiology
at the School] gave a guest lecture in one of
my epidemiology courses,” she recalls. “Suddenly, it
all made sense to me, and I realized that as a pediatrician,
this was something I could play a role in.”
Although some amount of public health is
taught in medical schools, the M.D.’s interviewed
for this story agree that the curriculum is so packed
with biomedical and clinical subjects that core concepts
of community and
environmental health,
health services, epidemiology
and biostatistics
tend to get lost.
Ko is reminded of
this when he gives presentations
to surgeons
across the country. “I
talk about how much
we spend on health care
in the United States and
how, compared with
other countries, our care
falls below the median
in a lot of categories,” he
says. “This is all very
basic knowledge for a
public health student.
But to these world-famous surgeons, it’s very new
— and surprising.
“I’ve learned from my public health education
that we can’t depend on physicians who treat individual
patients to improve what’s wrong with our
system. It will also take people trained in public
health.”
“I’ve learned
from my public
health education
that we can’t
depend on
physicians who
treat individual
patients to
improve what’s
wrong with our
system. It will
also take people
trained in public
health.”
—Dr. Clifford Ko
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Striking a Blow
AGAINST
Violence
IT’S NO LONGER
SEEN AS RANDOM
OR INEVITABLE.
PUBLIC HEALTH
LEADERS, INCLUD-
ING THE SCHOOL’S
FACULTY, STUDENTS
AND ALUMNI, ARE
SHOWING THAT
PREVENTION
APPROACHES CAN
SUCCESSFULLY
TACKLE A
FORMIDABLE FOE.
Some incidents we know about —
the horrifying shootings by schoolchildren of their classmates, shocking both for
the age of the perpetrators and because they instill a feeling of vulnerability.
Other incidents, no less tragic, receive little or no attention — from the gangand
drug-related killings that fail to grab the headlines they once did, to the
numerous cases of physical and sexual abuse in the home, most of which remain
hidden as always from public view.
Students at a high
school in Los Angeles’
San Fernando Valley
rallied against violence
following the
rape of a classmate.
The students organized
the rally with the
assistance of the Los
Angeles Commission
on Assaults Against
Women.
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But violence is no longer seen as random or inevitable, thanks to the efforts
of public health researchers and professionals. “When we examined it, it became
clear that violence is very predictable,” says Dr. Corinne Peek-Asa, Associate
Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health and Associate
Director of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, based
at the School. “It occurs in predictable sets of the population — there are individuals
and communities at higher risk. To a public health researcher, that means
it can be prevented.”
Adds Billie Weiss, M.P.H. ’81, Director of the Injury and Violence Prevention
Program of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services: “Violence is
the leading cause of death and disability for the population under 35. You can

measure it and find places to intervene to prevent it. In my mind, that makes it
a public health issue.”
For a number of years, public health seemed to be the only field that viewed
it that way. Now, there is a general consensus that criminologists and law enforcement
represent only part of the solution, and that a multidisciplinary approach
is needed. “It wasn’t until the 1990s that violence came to be widely recognized
as a public health issue,” says Dr. Susan Sorenson, Professor of Community
Health Sciences at the School. “There was a clear sense that approaching it only
through the criminal justice system wasn’t working. The public health perspective
brought a sense of hope and optimism that reducing violence wasn’t a futile
endeavor. The idea of being able to prevent something from occurring rather
than clamping down after the fact became very appealing.”
Some may argue that violence has been a fact of life throughout history, in all
societies. Whether the problem is worse now than in other times is debatable,
particularly since surveillance began only recently. What is clear is that violence
in American society is more lethal than it was in the past, due to the greater
access to firearms. “The rest of the world doesn’t have the level of gun violence
that we have,” says Weiss. But she believes it’s not only a weapons issue. “When
you consider that the leading cause of death for children in this society between
the perinatal period and age 1 is abuse, that’s pretty shocking,” she says. “There is
Isabelle
Barbour, M.P.H. ’00
As the Outreach and
Advocacy Coordinator at
the Los Angeles Commission
on Assaults Against Women
(LACAAW), Barbour consults
on violence prevention strategies
with school districts and
individual schools, as well as
service agencies. Recently,
Barbour and her colleagues
at LACAAW met with
Genethia Hayes, President
of the Board of Education
for the Los Angeles Unified
School District (LAUSD),
about the idea of developing
a violence prevention policy
for the district. Hayes was
receptive, and asked
LACAAW to draft a policy.
Building on research she
had done on the issue dating
to her days as a UCLA
School of Public Health
student, Barbour, along with
Leah Aldridge, LACAAW’s
Associate Director of
Youth Violence Prevention
Programs, drafted a policy.
“The point we have emphasized
is that even though
schools are a very safe
place for youths, between
the school shootings, bullying,
and level of sexual
harassment that occur,
there’s a lot of fear,” Barbour
says. “It’s very hard to learn
in that climate, and it’s very
hard to teach.” The policy
Barbour co-wrote is currently
being considered for implementation
by LAUSD.
“Violence is the
leading cause
of death and disability
for the population
under 35.
You can measure
it and find places
to intervene to prevent
it. In my mind,
that makes it a
public health issue.”
—Billie Weiss, M.P.H. ’81
Cathy Taylor
Taylor, a Dr.P.H. student at
the School, is working on a
study headed by Dr. Susan
Sorenson to assess social
norms related to violence
against women. Nearly 4,000
interviews have been conducted
with six ethnic groups
in four languages. The survey,
funded by the California
Department of Health
Services, poses various
scenarios about domestic
violence to examine how
individuals’ responses
change depending on the
characteristics of a given
incident. “We need to educate
people in ways that will
reduce domestic violence,”
says Taylor. “But it’s hard
to do that without knowing
where people are in their
understanding and awareness
of the issue.” Adds
Taylor, who has a background
in mental health:
“From talking with people
who grew up with violence
or are currently in a violent
situation, I feel strongly that
violence prevention efforts,
especially in families, can
have a far-reaching impact
on our society.”
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Rhea Durr
After graduating from the
School with her M.P.H. this
spring, Durr will begin a
California State Senate
Fellowship this fall. Once
Durr has learned the inner
workings of the political
system, she intends to use
her skills to provide a voice
for underserved community
residents through advocacy
and policy analysis efforts,
particularly on issues related
to violence prevention. It is
a field that has interested her
since, as an adolescent, one
of her close friends was the
innocent victim of a drive-by
shooting, and an acquaintance
was killed in a gangrelated
incident. Durr also
witnessed domestic violence
as a child. “I wanted to
understand why these things
were happening,” Durr says.
“And as I learned more about
it, I began to focus
my efforts on advocating
for prevention of these acts,
so that what I experienced
doesn’t happen to
someone else.”
“The public health
perspective brought
a sense of hope
and optimism that
reducing violence
wasn’t a futile
endeavor.”
—Dr. Susan Sorenson
Mary Ann
Limbos,
M.D., M.P.H. ’97
Limbos, a general pediatrician
at Children’s Hospital in
Los Angeles, became interested
in studying pediatric
injuries while getting her
M.P.H. at the School. She is
currently working with Dr.
Corinne Peek-Asa on a study
examining intentional and
unintentional injuries in the
Los Angeles Unified School
District. Nearly 12,000
injuries occur in the district
each year, about one-fifth of
which are intentional. The
researchers have spent the
past two years laying the
groundwork by gathering
general data; beginning this
summer, they will focus on
a specific area, around
Children’s Hospital. Limbos
hopes to get a sense of not
only the school-related factors
that contribute to intentional
injuries, but also the
community and individual risk
factors that play a role. “The
media has focused a great
deal of attention on school
violence, and it’s hard for us
to say that there’s been an
increase because there has
been little data,” she says.
While she hopes the study
will point the way toward
effective interventions to
reduce intentional injuries
in school, Limbos also
believes it’s important to point
out that children are
at considerably greater risk
for unintentional injury.
something in our culture that accepts violence, and even glorifies it.”
Often, though, public perceptions don’t mesh with the actual risks. Fear of
violence rose during the 1990s, a period during which the occurrence of
violent crimes was declining dramatically. Weiss attributes this to the influence
of media that play on people’s anxieties. Toward that end, she adds, one of the
greatest fears among parents is that their child will be abducted on the streets
by a stranger — an extremely rare event. “A child is much more likely to be
harmed by a gun found in a friend’s house, or to be hit by a car,” she says. And
for all the attention given to school shootings, kids are at greater risk of being
the victims of violence in the home or on their way to and from school.
Another example of perception not matching reality is in workplace violence.
Based on media portrayals, the general perception in the 1990s was that
most workplace homicides resulted from disgruntled workers taking out their
frustrations on coworkers or supervisors. In fact, 75% of all workplace homicides
are robbery-related. More than half occur in retail trade and service industries,
where the almost daily killings of taxicab drivers, convenience store clerks and
other retail workers go virtually unnoticed. Moreover, most work-related homicides
are committed by strangers, unlike homicide in the general population.
Despite lingering misperceptions, public health has made a significant impact
in focusing attention on the biggest problems. “When research told us that you’re
much more likely to be killed by someone you know — particularly an intimate
partner if you are a woman — it had a great effect on law enforcement,” says
Peek-Asa. “There is now training throughout most of the country in how to deal
with domestic disputes.”
One of the best illustrations of public health’s unique approach to violence is
in the area of firearms. The handgun is the most common weapon used in both
homicide and suicide in the United States. “The criminal justice system focuses
on the user, whereas public health looks more upstream,” says Sorenson.
Upstream strategies in reducing handgun-related injuries and deaths generally
fall into one of two categories. Sorenson is among those who have focused on
mechanism and design issues. The federal government is investing substantial
resources in the development of “smart gun” technology, in which guns would

Left to right: Postdoctoral
fellow Douglas
Wiebe, doctoral students
Cathy Taylor and
Kate Vittes, and M.P.H.
student Rhea Durr
with the “human target.”
Students visit a
shooting range as part
of the School’s gun
policy course.
fire only when held by the authorized user. Other
designs, such as built-in locking mechanisms and
magazine disconnects, reduce accidental shootings,
Sorenson notes. Public health also focuses on
firearms distribution — keeping guns out of the
hands of people who shouldn’t have them.
The second category, a social-change approach,
emphasizes the inequalities that might give rise to
violence. “Researchers try to understand why the
differences exist, and then seek to identify ways to remedy the situation,”
Sorenson explains. Examples include increasing educational, employment and
recreational opportunities in communities. Sorenson believes both strategies —
along with those not specific to public health, such as criminal justice — are
needed.
As the public health approach to violence has gained acceptance, a number
of strategies have been employed, and studies have borne out the effectiveness
of specific programs in working with specific populations. What’s needed now,
experts in the field agree, are more global, community-wide evaluations of what
works in reducing levels of violence.
“Up until 1994, we saw escalating rates of violent crime,” says Peek-Asa.
“Then, all of a sudden, rates plummeted across the board — rural, urban, workplace,
school, domestic...almost every type of violent crime went down. And we
don’t really know why. Economics probably had something to do with it, changing
law enforcement practices may have contributed, community organizations
were starting to play a very strong role — but we don’t really know. Now, we see
rates starting to rise again. We desperately need comprehensive studies that evaluate
what drives these broader trends.”
Other issues Weiss sees as ripe for further study include the link between
family violence and community violence. “Anecdotally, when I speak to kids who
are in gangs or have been involved in gangs and violence, they’ve typically been
victims or witnesses of family violence,” she says. Cultural differences related to
violence are also important to examine. Peek-Asa and colleagues are completing
Stephanie
Monteleone,
M.P.H. ’00
After graduating from the
UCLA School of Public
Health last year, Monteleone
began working full-time as
a Rape Prevention Education
Coordinator at the Los
Angeles Commission on
Assaults Against Women
(LACAAW). As part of the
program, Monteleone conducts
outreach to the 22
communities in her office’s
service area in the West San
Gabriel Valley, giving presentations
on teen-relationship
violence prevention, domestic
violence prevention and
sexual assault prevention
education, as well as selfdefense
classes. Among
other sites, Monteleone
facilitates these presentations
at middle schools
and high schools in the
Pasadena, Arcadia, San
Gabriel, El Monte, and
Alhambra Unified School
Districts. “I believe it is
valuable for youths to learn
about domestic violence and
how to prevent violence
against women,” she says.
“Teens have told me they
appreciate having the opportunity
to discuss ways that
they can build healthy relationships
and prevent violence
and abuse from
occurring in their own lives.”
“When research
told us that you’re
much more likely
to be killed by
someone you know
... it had a great effect
on law enforcement.”
—Dr. Corinne Peek-Asa
Kate Vittes
Vittes, a Ph.D. student, has
been part of a study headed
by Sorenson on straw purchasers
— people who commit
the crime of buying guns
for someone else, such as a
felon or, as in the Columbine
tragedy, a minor. The study
examines the likelihood of
gun dealers selling to a straw
purchaser, using a national
probability sample. Vittes,
who is also analyzing data
about attitudes toward
firearms from a national survey
of high school students,
says she began to realize
the importance of a public
health approach to violence
after a visit to Folsom State
Prison last fall. "It became
clear to me that more has to
be done on the prevention
side," she says, "and that’s
where I feel I can make the
most difference." She believes
focusing on firearms access
is the type of "upstream"
approach that can make a
major impact. "The United
States has had a violence
problem for a long time,"
Vittes says, "but in recent
times, firearms are the most
common weapons used in
homicide and suicide."
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Douglas
Wiebe
Wiebe, a postdoctoral fellow,
is working with Sorenson on
her study of the relation
between guns and nonfatal
domestic violence, based on
interviews with residents of
battered women’s shelters in
California. Wiebe is also conducting
research on gun storage
methods as a risk factor
for homicide, suicide, and
unintentional fatalities. His
study, funded by the
California Wellness
Foundation and the Public
Health Foundation, suggests
that the way people store
guns affects the risk of
household members becoming
victims in each of the
three categories. Wiebe
became interested in violence
prevention while providing
counseling for children in
a residential care facility. “It
was such a challenge for
families to recover after violence
occurred,” he recalls.
Firearms are responsible
for such a great proportion
of unnatural deaths, he
notes. At the same time,
discussions about limiting
access to firearms are rife
with controversy. “Research
can help address issues that
are often swayed by politically
motivated conjecture,”
Wiebe says.
Alina Bueno,
M.P.H. ’99
While a student at the
School, Bueno learned the
concept of photo voice —
using photography as a
vehicle for disenfranchised
people to convey what their
daily lives are like. During
her second year in the
M.P.H. program, Bueno
devised Shoot with Cameras
— Not Guns. Elementary
schoolchildren learn the
basics of photography, then
photograph the positive and
negative aspects of their
community. Bueno, now a
Program Coordinator at
Harbor-UCLA’s Childhood
Injury Prevention Center,
continues to implement the
program as part of her fulltime
position. The children
exhibit their photographs in
the classroom to foster discussion,
then identify and
implement a community
improvement activity. “The
idea is to help them realize,
even as young as 9 and 10
years old, that they have the
ability to make a difference
in their neighborhoods,”
Bueno explains. Bueno
started the program at a
single elementary school in
Wilmington, Calif.; this year
she is also implementing it
at a second school. In addition,
she is helping to
expand the program to 12
other sites across the country
through the national
Injury-Free Coalition for Kids.
Alina Bueno, M.P.H. ’99,
with elementary school
students in Wilmington,
Calif., where Bueno has
implemented Shoot with
Cameras — Not Guns.
The students exhibit
their photographs showing
both positive and
negative aspects of
their community.
an international collaborative study comparing
both victimization and perceptions of the severity
of abuse among women living in Mexico and
women of Mexican descent living in the L.A.
area. And on the topic of school shootings, an
unresolved question is whether they are a sign of
increasing overall aggression in schools, or merely a product of easier access to
the lethal weapons.
Public health researchers and professionals have had a major impact in shaping
policy, particularly as it pertains to guns. Weiss notes that more health departments
are recognizing the need to include injury and violence prevention as part
of their core activities. But public health has been less effective in attracting
funding for violence prevention research and programs. “We’re constantly looking
for money,” says Weiss. Indeed, agrees Sorenson, scientific evaluations of existing
policies are sorely needed, but limited resources are available to conduct these
studies. The School has fared better than many at attracting funders, particularly
from foundations, as well as from the state Department of Health Services.
In fact, the School has long been a leader in violence prevention teaching
and research. Since 1986, Sorenson has taught a course on family and sexual
violence — a subject that, to this day, is part of only a handful of university
curricula. She also teaches a gun policy course. A course on the epidemiology
of assault, homicide and suicide is taught by Dr. Jess Kraus. Many graduates who
have taken these courses are now making an impact in the community.
In 1991, Sorenson co-founded the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater
Los Angeles. She and Peek-Asa have both played active roles in the organization,
which Weiss, also a co-founder, serves as Executive Director. The Violence
Prevention Coalition includes public health professionals and academics, law
enforcement, and community-based organizations ranging from domestic violence
prevention programs and shelters to job- and after-school programs. “You
want to create the kind of nurturing environment in a community that enables
children to flourish, and supports their parents,” says Weiss.
Like the contribution of public health in general, the Violence Prevention
Coalition has contributed a sense of optimism to groups dealing with a problem
that once seemed inevitable. “This has made people aware that there’s something
they can do,” Weiss says. “People are beginning to realize that working
together, we can really make a difference in our communities.”

Pillars of the
Community
FOUR YEARS AGO,
ROBERT AND
MARION WILSON
(ABOVE) MADE A
GENEROUS DONATION
TO SUPPORT
STUDENTS IN
COMMUNITY-BASED
HEALTH IMPROVE-
MENT EFFORTS.
THE IMPACT OF
THEIR GIFT CAN
BE SEEN IN
NEIGHBORHOODS
ACROSS THE
REGION.
While a student at the UCLA School
of Public Health, Rachel Gonzales gave something back to the community in
which she was raised. Gonzales and fellow M.P.H. student Mehrnaz Davoudi,
working with the El Monte Union School District in Los Angeles’ San Gabriel
Valley, implemented a school-based anti-tobacco program. Project E.M.P.A.C.T.
(Empowerment and Media Prevention Advocacy for Controlling Tobacco) included
an eight-week media literacy program for 10th graders, designed to increase
awareness and knowledge of the influence of advertising and other media on
tobacco use.
“By instilling in the students critical thinking skills and the ability to decipher
hidden messages in tobacco-company advertisements that targeted them, we hoped
to change attitudes and decrease their
tobacco use,” Gonzales explains.
While Gonzales and Davoudi are
still analyzing their results, the anecdotal
evidence indicates that the program
made a strong impact. “The
change in the students from the beginning
of the program to the end was
very exciting,” Gonzales says. “They
started out very reserved, because
they’re used to the traditional format
of listening to the teachers. By the end,
they were much more actively
involved, and were very anti-tobacco.
They became advocates themselves.”
Project E.M.P.A.C.T. is one of
nearly four dozen UCLA School of Public Health student-initiated projects to
make an impact on poor and underserved populations in Southern California
communities since 1998. In 1997, UCLA alumni Robert and Marion Wilson
made a generous gift to the School to provide internship stipends for students
working in community-based health improvement efforts, particularly among
the region’s poor and underserved. The gift enabled the School to establish the
Community Health Promotion Program, which has supported 46 innovative
public health projects, planned and implemented by the School’s students in
conjunction with local community agencies (see the list on the next page).
“Projects were extremely varied in topic and scope, but they shared the
common goal of providing assistance to populations in need,” says Kirstin
Chickering of the School’s Office of Public Health Practice, who administered
the program. “The addition of this innovative program has enabled UCLA’s
Public Health Practice Program to become a national model for public health
schools throughout the country.”
The underserved individuals and organizations targeted by the projects
weren’t the only ones to benefit. Participating students spoke of the richness of
In Project E.M.P.A.C.T., initiated
by two UCLA School of
Public Health students, high
school students find tobacco
ads in their libraries, then conduct
“ad-busting” sessions in
which they discuss the facts
not mentioned in the ads.
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Myra Bastidas (second from right)
provided technical assistance to
the Health Rescue Immunization
Project in South-Central Los
Angeles. The group presented its
work on a poster board at last
year’s APHA annual meeting.
their experiences — which, in many cases, have led to post-graduation jobs.
“I recommend that students who are interested in program development
take advantage of their time at the UCLA School of Public Health and actually
implement a self-developed program,” says Davoudi. “We learn the ideal model
of how public health programs should be operated, but once we graduate, we
are faced with the realities of a system that is most often difficult to change.
Being innovative public health professionals means initiating programs that take
the theories and actually apply them to real-life settings.”
Myra Bastidas agrees. Her spring 2000 project involved providing technical
assistance to the Health Rescue Immunization Project in South-Central Los
Angeles, where immunization rates are extremely low among Latino families.
Using a teaching methodology known as Popular Education Methods, Bastidas
assisted in training promotoras de vacunación, Latina women recruited and
empowered to serve as advocates for timely immunization in their communities.
Bastidas has seen the dramatic impact of the project in changing preconceived
notions and attitudes about immunizations and ensuring that more
Latino children become immunized. “It’s been so personally rewarding to know
that by getting my training in public health, I’ve been able to make a contribution
to improving the health of my community,” says Bastidas. “And professionally,
this experience has opened so many doors,” including the opportunity to
give a presentation at the American Public Health Association annual meeting.
Concludes Bastidas, who completed her M.P.H. education this spring and continues
to work at Health Rescue as Assistant Project Coordinator: “This is why I
went into public health.”
Community Health Promotion Program Awardees
UCLAPUBLIC HEALTH
2000
Health Rescue/Rescatando
Salud Promotora
Immunization Project
Myra Bastidas
Evaluation of Shelter Nurse
Program Heidi Behm
Promotion of Folic Acid
Use Among Low-Income
Pregnant Women
Katie Eilers
Development of a Comprehensive
Educational Program
for the Community Coalition
for Substance Abuse and
Treatment in South Los
Angeles Anne Farrell
The Anti-Tobacco E.M.P.A.C.T.
Program Rachel Gonzalez,
Mehrnaz Davoudi
Basic Support Program
for Homeless Individuals
Koy Parada, Kevin Riley
VCHC/COPE Family
Assessment Julia Prentice
Study and Analysis of Barriers
to Medical Participation and
Retention in a Small, Non-
Profit Community-Based
Clinic Stephanie Surbida
Child Abuse and Neglect
Education and Prevention
Outreach Program
Fumihiko Yokota
1999
Teen Violence Prevention
Project in the Mid San
Fernando Valley
Isabelle Barbour
Ethiopian Health Fair Expo
Ruth Betru
Diabetes and Diet
Zinat Choudhury
Hepatitis B and C Education
for the Homeless
Brenda Goldhammer
Study of Personal, Indoor,
and Outdoor Exposure to
Fine Particulate Matter, Acid
Aerosols, and Air Toxics
Caroline Guillebard,
Lisa Sabin, Derek
Shendell, and Naomichi
Yamamoto
Feeding Our Children
Susan Kim
Comprehensive Health
Assessment of Riverside
County Kami Lo
Investigating the Incidence of
Asthma and Respiratory
Diseases in Schools Situated
in Southeast L.A. Industrial
Zones Fiona O’Kirwan
Empowering the South
Asian Community in L.A.
Lisa Patel, Jasbir Virk
Assessing Demography of
Latina Women Who Are
Victims of Sexual Assault
and/or Domestic Violence
Sarika Thakur
1998
Understanding and Promotion
of Breastfeeding in High-Risk
Women with a History of
Chemical Dependence Linda
Barthauer, Sarah Thomas
Increasing Access to and
Utilization of WIC Services in
South Central and South East
Los Angeles Susan Diaz
Native American Outreach
Program for the PHFE-WIC
Program Heidi Frith-Smith
Emergency Preparedness
Training for Underserved
Elementary School Children
Todd McNairy
Using Home-Blood Glucose
Testing to Improve Diabetic
Patients’ Health Sara Mirza
Characteristics of Adolescents
and Women Seeking STD-
Related Services at the T.H.E.
Clinic in Los Angeles County
Lisa V. Smith
Shoot with Cameras —
Not Guns Alina Bueno
Health Rescue/Rescatando
Salud Tina Christapolous
Factors Influencing High-
Risk Behaviors and Service
Utilization of Transgender
Youth Heather Corliss
Fighting Cancer with Fitness
Alexandra Ellis
TB Workshops in the Asian
and Pacific Islander
Community in L.A. County
Shoko Ishikawa
Teen Relationship Violence
Prevention Sarah Kochly
Students’ Health and
Osteoporosis Understanding
for Tomorrow (SHOUT)
France Nguyen
Community Outreach for
Prevention & Education
(COPE) Koy Parada
Increasing the Capacity of
Chaplain Services at King-
Drew Medical Center to
Provide Culturally Competent
Care for the Poor and
Underserved Kathryn Pitkin
Teaching Love and Compassion
(TLC) Lara Shing
Characteristics of Medically
Underserved Populations
Utilizing a Mobile HIV
Testing Van Lisa Smith
Complementary Medicine
for Indigenous Populations
Patrice Wagonhurst

alumni profile
Heal the Bay’s Mark Gold Uses “Impact Science”
to Clear the Murky Waters Off of Santa Monica
MARK GOLD (D.Env ’94) REMEMBERS THE LECTURE like it was yesterday —
even though it took place nearly 15 years ago, while Gold was taking courses
toward his doctorate in the UCLA School of Public Health’s Environmental
Science and Engineering (ESE) Program.
“It was a talk given by someone from the California Department of Health
Services,” Gold recalls. “He said, ‘If you in academia don’t make recommendations
on technical issues, just remember, elected officials will. If you stay in that
ivory tower, those multi-million dollar decisions that impact public
health are going to be made without you.’ ”
The statement reaffirmed what Gold had concluded while
getting his master’s degree in biology at UCLA. “I decided I was
a big-picture kind of guy, and that, rather than pure science, I
wanted to do something that was going to make a difference in
protecting the environment,” he says.
He found his calling in 1986, shortly after entering the policyoriented
ESE Program. Gold was in a class in which one of the
guest speakers was Dorothy Green, who had just founded a nonprofit
organization of volunteers concerned about coastal pollution
in Santa Monica, where Gold had been raised. Gold began
volunteering at Heal the Bay. Two years later, he was hired as the
organization’s first employee, in the position of Staff Scientist.
Since 1994, he has served as Executive Director.
Heal the Bay was formed at a time when the Santa Monica Bay
was, in Gold’s words, “a mess.” Pollution from sewage and storm
drains was causing reproductive problems and tumors in fish, and a
large section of the bay had become essentially lifeless. Sewage
spills were shutting down the bay with regularity. An alarming number
of surfers and swimmers were complaining of stomach flu,
sinusitis, and other illnesses. Meanwhile, Gold had heard too many
politicians use the lack of sound science on a given issue as an
excuse not to protect the environment and public health. He vowed
to fight back with data. Gold calls it “impact science” — timely
research designed to assist decision-makers in acting in the public
interest. “I think our use of science to educate the public and advocate
on issues is what sets us apart from most groups,” he says.
Today, Gold says, the Santa Monica Bay is in much better shape than when
Heal the Bay began its efforts. Gold estimates that there has been a 90% reduction
in sewage solids discharged to the bay since the mid-1980s, restoring plant
and animal life to previous “dead” zones. Among its successes, Heal the Bay coauthored
legislation setting the first statewide bathing water standards, along
with a protocol for health warnings and beach closures.
He’s quick to point out that there’s still work to be done, particularly in reducing
storm water pollution, where little reduction has occurred despite Heal the Bay’s
best efforts to push for tougher regulations. “The combination of inertia and dischargers’
refusal to do what’s necessary to protect water quality is continually frustrating,”
Gold says. “People just hate to change.” But by harnessing the persuasive
powers of its 10,000 members and 500 volunteers, Heal the Bay has already
effected more change than could have been predicted. Gold, who is assisted by two
staff scientists who are doing their dissertations through the ESE Program, says his
D.Env. has been a key to his success. “It gives you the diversity of skills necessary
to tackle complicated problems,” he says. “That’s critical, because environmental
issues are a great deal more complex than a lot of other research issues.”
“I think our use of
science to educate
the public and advocate
on issues is what
sets us apart
from most groups.”
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faculty honors
UCLAPUBLIC HEALTH faculty
DR. RONALD ANDERSEN earned The Baxter Allegiance
Prize for Contributions to Health Services Research.
He served on the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on
the Consequences of Uninsurance.
DR. SUSAN COCHRAN received the 2001 Distinguished
Contribution to Research in Public Policy award from
the American Psychological Association. The award
was given for Cochran’s body of research on lesbian
and gay life.
DR. WILLIAM G. CUMBERLAND was elected Fellow to
the American Statistical Association.
DR. WILLIAM HINDS testified at an Environmental
Protection Agency hearing on proposed standards for
heavy-duty vehicles and diesel fuel sulfur control.
DR. JOHN FROINES was inducted into the Berkeley
High School Hall of Fame in Berkeley, Calif. Previous
inductees have included Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Thornton Wilder, fitness expert Jack LaLanne,
and Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh.
DR. JESS F. KRAUS and CORINNE PEEK-ASA
received the Best Video Award at the 5th World
Conference on Injury Prevention and Control for
“Work Alert: A Robbery and Violence Prevention
Training Video.”
DR. GANG LI was elected Fellow of the International
Statistical Institute.
DR. MARK LITWIN received the 2001 Gold Cystoscope
Award from the American Urological Association. The
annual award honors a young urologist with outstanding
contributions to the field of urology. Litwin
received the award for his pioneering work in urological
health services research, much of it in quality of
life in prostate cancer.
DR. SHANE QUE HEE was named to a five-year term on
the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health Board of Scientific Counselors.
DR. SUSAN SORENSON served on the planning board
and as a peer reviewer for the Surgeon General’s
Report on Youth Violence, and has been a consultant
to UNICEF, Innocenti Digest on Domestic Violence.
DR. DAWN UPCHURCH received the Jacobs Institute—
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Scholar in Women’s
Health Award to further her research on the risk of
involuntary sex among adolescent girls. The award is
given annually by the nonprofit Jacobs Institute for
research to improve the delivery of health care services
to women.
DR. ROBERT WEISS was Section on Bayesian
Statistical Sciences Program Chair for the 2001 Joint
Statistical Meetings in Atlanta.
bookshelf
...recent books by UCLA School of Public Health authors
Changing the U.S. Health
Care System: Key Issues
in Health Services,
Policy and Management,
2nd edition,
edited by Ronald M. Andersen,
Thomas H. Rice and Gerald F.
Kominski. John Wiley.
Health Communication:
A Multicultural Perspective,
by Snehendu Kar, Rina
Alcalay, and Shana Alex.
Sage Publications.
Hearts of Wisdom: American
Women Caring for Kin,
1850-1940,
by Emily Abel. Harvard
University Press.
Substance Abuse Prevention:
A Multicultural Perspective,
edited by Snehendu Kar.
Baywood Publications.
Alternative Health
Care: Medicine, Miracle
or Mirage?,
by Michael S. Goldstein.
Temple University Press.
Hazardous Waste Analysis,
by Shane Que Hee.
Government Institutes.
The State of Health Insurance
in California: Recent Trends,
Future Prospects,
by E. Richard Brown, Ninez
Ponce, and Thomas Rice.
UCLA Center for
Health Policy Research.

2001 student awards
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DAVID M. SOULELES,
M.P.H. ’91, a doctoral student
at the School, has been
appointed by Gov. Gray Davis
to serve as Chief Deputy
Director of Programs for the
California Department of
Health Services. In his new
role, Souleles will have
responsibility for a number
of the Department’s programs,
including Prevention
Services, Primary Care and
Family Health, Health
Information and Strategic
Planning, Information and
Technology Services, and the
offices of Women’s Health,
Multicultural Health, and
Public Information.
Souleles has been serving
as Special Assistant to the
Director of the Department,
Dr. Diana Bontá (M.P.H. ’75,
Dr.P.H. ’92). In this capacity,
he has been a primary advisor
in the management of the
Department and in the development
of policy recommendations.
He previously served
as the Preventive Health
Bureau Manager and AIDS
Program Officer for the City
of Long Beach Department
of Health and Human
Services.
Abdelmonem A. Afifi
Fellowship
Jose G. Carrillo
Health Services
American Association
of Cancer Research,
Pathobiology of Cancer
Summer Workshop
in Keystone, CO
Susan Sheu
Epidemiology
American Association
of Cancer Research, Young
Investigator Travel Award
V. Wendy Setiawan
Epidemiology
Ann G. Quealy
Memorial Fellowship
in Health Services
Patricia Conaty
Michelle Persha
ASPH/CDC/ATSDR U.S.-
Mexico Border Infectious
Disease Surveillance and
Epidemiology Internship
Maureen Lorena
Fonseca
ASPO (American Society
of Preventive Oncology)
New Investigator Award
Gloria Mao
Epidemiology
CDC Public Health
Prevention Specialist
Fellowship for 2001-2004
Maureen Lorena
Fonseca
Epidemiology
Celia Blann Fellowship
Peter V. Long
Health Services
Chancellor’s Fellowship
Yun Jung Cho
Environmental Health Sciences
Laura Wei Jeou Ya Chyu
Community Health Sciences
Katherine J. Hoggatt
Epidemiology
Erin Lea Kasten
Molecular Toxicology
Elad Marish
Environmental Science and
Engineering
Charles F. Scott Fellowship
Eve Jokel
Health Services
Caroline M. Salinas
Community Health Sciences
Gayathri Sellakumar
Health Services
David L. Boren National
Security Education
Program Graduate
International Fellowship
Allison E. Head
Epidemiology
Dr. Ursula Mandel
Scholarship
Catherine A. Taylor
Community Health Sciences
Eugene Cota Robles Award
Andrea Loiselle
Community Health Sciences
Myduc Ta
Epidemiology
Foley and Lardner
Fellowships in
Health Services
Anne R. Potter
Formosa C. Chen
Gordon Hein
Memorial Award
Christian S. Shinaberger
Epidemiology
Graduate Opportunity
Fellowship
Lisa Chuan Fu
Community Health Sciences
Monica F. McCann
Community Health Sciences
Monica F. Nickolas
Community Health Sciences
Caroline M. Salinas
Community Health Sciences
Health Policy and
Management Alumni
Association Scholarship
Luella Penserga
(2000 Awardee)
The UCLA School of Public Health's Department of Health Services team defeated a team
from California State University Long Beach in the final round of the College Bowl, a competition
featuring participants from health administration and policy programs in Southern
California. The UCLA team, coached by Dr. Diana Hilberman from the Department's faculty
(l.), included (continuing, l. to r.) Stephanie Surbida, Michelle Persha and Mae Fay Yeh. Not
pictured: Team Captain Marcus Fong.
IARC (International
Agency for Research on
Cancer), Lyon, France,
Special Training Award
Jui-Chun Hung
Epidemiology
Juneal Marie Smith
Fellowship in
International Nutrition
Tracy Lynn Hazelton
Community Health Sciences
L.S. Goerke Memorial Award
Katherine Deland
Health Services
National Institute of Aging
Minority Supplemental
Grant to Study Barriers to
Accessing Health Care
Maureen Lorena
Fonseca
Epidemiology
NIH Demographic Training
Program Grant
Julia Prentice
Community Health Sciences
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
with the NIMH HIV/AIDS
Training Grant
Marjan Javanbakht
Epidemiology
Raymond Goodman
Scholarship
Adele M. Kirk
Health Services
Riti Shimkhada
Epidemiology
Research Mentorship Award
Susan Sheu
Epidemiology
Ruth Richards
Outstanding Student Award
David E. Cardenas
Epidemiology
Kathryn E. Peterson
Community Health Sciences
Stephanie K. Surbida
Health Services
Rie Von Eyben
Biostatistics
Jingyang Zhang
Environmental Health Sciences
Samuel J. Tibbitts
Fellowship
Joy H. Lewis
Health Services
Wayne SooHoo Fellowship
Xiao Zhang
Biostatistics
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leadership giving
THE SCHOOL IS GRATEFUL FOR THE GENEROUS GIFTS from all of our donors. In
2000 we saw growth in Leadership Giving — gifts of $1,000 or more. These gifts are particularly
important to helping the School fulfill our mission and ensure continued success.
SPECIAL GIFTS
$25,000 and above
GRAND SPONSORS
$2,500-$4,999
Fred H. Bixby Foundation trustees Owen Patotzka,
John Warren, and Howard Friedman
INDIVIDUALS:
FRANK AND CAROL BIONDI
ROBERT J. DRABKIN
NANCY D. RIORDAN
MONICA SALINAS
FOUNDATIONS:
THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN PARKINSON’S
DISEASE ASSOCIATION
FRED H. BIXBY FOUNDATION
ABDELMONEM AND MARIANNE AFIFI
RONALD AND DIANE ANDERSEN
LESTER AND DEVRA BRESLOW
THOMAS AND JANE DAVID
MILDRED MASSEY
LESTER A. MEIS
STEWART AND LYNDA RESNICK
ANTHONY D. RODGERS
PAUL R. TORRENS
FRED AND PAMELA WASSERMAN
BEATRICE B. ZEIGER
Dean Linda Rosenstock with Jerry Factor and
Carolyn Katzin (Vice Chair and Chair of the Dean’s
Advisory Board) at the May 1 reception for the Dean
at the home of Jerry and Lorraine Factor
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT
THE CALIFORNIA WELLNESS FOUNDATION
MAX FACTOR FAMILY FOUNDATION
IOWA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION,
ENVIRONMENT AND THE ARTS
SUSAN G. KOMEN BREAST CANCER
FOUNDATION
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PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES
CORPORATIONS:
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DISTINGUISHED ADVOCATES
$10,000 – $24,999
JERRY AND LORRAINE FACTOR
CAROLYN F. K ATZIN
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A.H. SCHUYLER
DISTINGUISHED SPONSORS
$1,000-$2,499
JAMES D. BARBER
LINDA B. BOURQUE
J.J. AND JUDY BRANDLIN
STEVEN AND FRANCES CHASEN
CALVIN S. CHUN
ROBERT A. DAY,JR.
JAMES AND MARTA ENSTROM
ROSALIND ESSNER
JONATHAN E. FIELDING
ROBERT W. GILLESPIE
DANIEL P. GROSZKRUGER
SUSAN HULL
RICHARD B. JACOBS
RAYMOND AND JENNIE JING
ALLAN K. JONAS
JIM M. KADA
UCLAPUBLIC HEALTH
Monica Salinas and Robert Gillespie at the 2001
Dean’s Dinner
ADVOCATES
$5,000-$9,999
IRA AND MARSHA ALPERT
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honor roll 2000
THE SCHOOL THANKS ALL OF ITS DONORS for their financial support. The following list acknowledges
gifts made to the UCLA School of Public Health from January 1, 2000 to December 12, 2000. Although
space limitations allow only the listing of donations of $100 or more, contributions of every amount are of great
importance to the School and are deeply appreciated. It is important to us that we acknowledge your gift
properly. Please let us know of any omissions or errors in listing your name or gift, by calling (310) 825-6464.
The Dean’s Council is the School’s Annual Fund, providing the Dean with essential, flexible funding to
respond to opportunities and needs in the pursuit of building healthy futures.
DEAN’ S COUNCIL
SPECIAL GIFT
$25,000 and above
THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION
DISTINGUISHED
ADVOCATES
$10,000 and above
CAROLBETH G. KORN
ADVOCATES
$5,000-$9,999
IRA AND MARSHA ALPERT
DISTINGUISHED
SPONSORS
$1,000-$2,499
SUSAN HULL
RAYMOND AND JENNIE JING
JIM M. KADA
KENNETH AND CORNELIA LEE
JOSEPH A. SYIEK
SPONSORS
$500-$999
VICTORIA R. ALLA
RONALD AND DIANE
ANDERSEN
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LESTER AND JOANNE
MANTELL
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KLEINMAN
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ways of giving
THE SCHOOL DEPENDS ON THE GENEROSITY of alumni and friends
to support its mission of teaching, research and service. Only one third of
the School’s annual budget is provided by state funds; the rest comes from
federal and state grants and contracts and private gifts. Almost every type
of gift to The UCLA Foundation, which receives gifts for the School of Public
Health, is completely or partially deductible from federal, and often state,
income tax. Tax savings can reduce the “cost” of making a charitable gift.
GIFTS OF CASH
Donations of all sizes are welcome and appreciated!
GIFTS OF APPRECIATED SECURITIES
A gift of appreciated stock can contribute to the School’s work while minimizing
your taxes. You pay no capital gains on appreciated stock, but receive
an income tax deduction equal to the full amount of the stock at the time of
transfer to UCLA.
GIFTS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
The development staff can assist you in the identification and sale of items
of value which may help you support the School, such as jewelry, art and
classic automobiles.
DEFERRED GIFT CHOICES
You can name the School in your will, leaving an outright gift or a portion of
your estate. Additionally, assets can be transferred into an income-producing
gift arrangement that makes lifetime payments to you and/or other selected
beneficiaries. After the lifetimes of all beneficiaries, the value of the remaining
assets will be distributed to the School for the purpose you designated;
thus the gift is “deferred.”
NAMING OPPORTUNITIES
The Dean may recommend to the Chancellor or the Regents that a room
in the School of Public Health be named in recognition of gifts of $100,000
and above. Naming opportunities — for classrooms, lecture halls, suites,
etc. — in both the current and future School of Public Health buildings are
abundant. To date, the following places in the School have been named:
Helga and Walter Oppenheimer Lobby
Carolbeth G. Korn Meeting Room
Frank J. Massey, Jr. Biostatistics Library
TIPS
• You can contribute online at www.campaign.ucla.edu/gift.cfm; specify
the School of Public Health in the Comments.
• You can double your gift by checking to see whether your employer
matches employee giving.
• You can make gifts in honor or memory of friends, family and business
acquaintances. We send the honoree or family member an appropriate
card that recognizes you as the donor.
RECOGNITION
• Donors of $100 and above are listed annually in the School’s Honor Roll.
• Individual donors of $1,000 and above are honored at an event hosted by
the Dean.
• Donors of cumulative gifts of $50,000 and above to the School of Public
Health are named on the School’s Donor Wall.
For further information or assistance, contact Office of Development and Alumni Relations,
UCLA School of Public Health, (310) 825-6464.
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GIFTS OF $100,000 AND ABOVE may be placed in named, endowed funds.
The principal of these gifts is invested, and the income funds the donors’ intentions
in perpetuity. Additional gifts may be made to these funds at any time,
increasing both their principal values and the annual level of support to their
public health purposes.
FRED H. BIXBY DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
Support for doctoral students researching domestic
or international population control and family planning
issues.
FRED H. BIXBY PROGRAM ON POPULATION
Funding start-up research grants for faculty and students,
annual lectures, summer internships and fellowships
for master’s students, and additional
doctoral student fellowships.
CELIA AND JOSEPH BLANN FELLOWSHIP
Created by a gift of the Annette Blann Living Trust
and H. Marshall Blann, in memory of their parents
Celia and Joseph, and awarding outstanding students
School-wide.
LESTER BRESLOW DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
A gift of Betty and Ray Goodman, M.D., M.P.H. ’72
and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School, honoring
Lester Breslow’s service as Dean; provides for
an annual lecture from a public health leader.
UCLA School of Public Health
Donor Wall
ABDELMONEM A. AFIFI FELLOWSHIP
Contributed by the Dean’s Advisory Board and the
School community in honor of Abdelmonem Afifi’s
service as Dean, and awarding students Schoolwide
for outstanding scholarship.
ELEANOR J. DEBENEDICTIS FELLOWSHIP
Given in memory of Eleanor DeBenedictis, B.S. ’39,
by her husband Aldo DeBenedictis, and providing
School-wide fellowships to doctoral students in
nutrition.
GLADYS A. EMERSON SCHOLAR
In memory of Gladys Emerson, Professor of
Environment and Nutritional Science in the School
from 1955 to 1970, supporting visiting scholars in
nutrition.
UCLAPUBLIC HEALTH
ARCO FELLOWSHIP
Established by the Atlantic Richfield Company, funding
master’s and doctoral students in the Department
of Environmental Health Sciences.
FRED H. BIXBY CHAIR IN POPULATION,
FAMILY AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
An endowed chair in the Department of Community
Health Sciences honoring Fred Bixby, a rancher
whose family built one of the largest real estate and
ranching operations in the West. The chair, held by
Judith Blake from 1975 to 1993 and Anne R. Pebley
from 1999 to present, supports a faculty member with
expertise in population control and family planning.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
AND ENGINEERING PROGRAM
Created by the graduates of this interdepartmental
doctoral program, for scholarships to current
students.
RAYMOND D. GOODMAN SCHOLARSHIP
A gift of Betty and Ray Goodman, M.D., M.P.H. ’72
and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School, supporting
School-wide student scholarships.
HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PROGRAM
Contributed by the gifts of graduates of the Department
of Health Services, and funding departmental
scholarships and priorities.

WILLIAM AND FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION
ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOLARSHIP
Ongoing student support to Environmental Science
and Engineering Program, an interdepartmental
doctoral program.
BETTE AND HANS LORENZ FELLOWSHIP
Provided by their estate, Bette and Hans Lorenz’ fellowship
supports outstanding students School-wide.
MAXICARE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
A gift of Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., for faculty and
doctoral student research projects in the Department
of Health Services.
TONY NORTON MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP
Contributed by family and classmates in memory of
Tony Norton, M.P.H. ’91 in Environmental Health
Sciences, and awarded annually to an outstanding
and activist Environmental Health Sciences student.
ANNE G. QUEALY MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP
Donated by Linda Lichtenfels in memory of her
friend Anne Quealy, Dr.P.H. ’73, M.P.H. ’72, for students
in the Department of Health Services.
ROEMER HEALTH SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION FELLOWSHIP
A gift of School faculty members Milton and Ruth
Roemer, supporting candidates for the Doctor of
Public Health degree.
THE RALPH R. SACHS VISITING SCHOLAR
Honoring the memory of Ralph Sachs, Associate
Clinical Professor in Behavioral Sciences and Health
Education in the School from 1959 to 1976 and a
visionary public health leader in Southern California,
for a visiting public health scholar from the University
of California.
MONICA SALINAS INTERNSHIP IN LATINO AND
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
A gift of Monica Salinas to underwrite internships for
students with interests in the health of Latinos or
Latin Americans.
Raymond Goodman congratulates
Jianming Wang, who
was one of the recipients of
the 2000 Raymond D. Goodman
Scholarship.
JUNEAL MARIE SMITH FELLOWSHIP
IN INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION
Created by her parents in memory of Juneal Smith,
Ph.D. ’95, M.P.H. ’92, and funding doctoral students
School-wide for work in international nutrition.
SAMUEL J. TIBBITTS FELLOWSHIP
Contributed by family and alumni colleagues of Sam
Tibbitts, M.P.H., B.S. ’49, honoring the memory of
this pioneer in managed health care for School-wide
fellowships.
FRED H. AND PAMELA K. WASSERMAN
CHAIR IN HEALTH SERVICES
An endowed chair in the Department of Health
Services, named for its donors Fred Wasserman,
Dr.P.H. ’76, M.P.H. ’72 and Pamela Wasserman,
M.P.H. ’72, co-founders of Maxicare Health Plans
Inc. Held by Ronald M. Andersen, 1991-present.
VIVIAN WEINSTEIN PROGRAM
Contributed by members of the Los Angeles community
in memory of Vivian Weinstein, a leading
children’s advocate and mentor, to support the interdisciplinary
training of graduate students in children’s
advocacy.
WEISMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION
Given in honor of Professor Barbara Visscher by
Richard Weisman and family, and supporting the
Department of Epidemiology.
WILSHIRE FOUNDATION INC. GERIATRIC MEDICINE
Supporting School-wide student public health practice
in elder care and policy.
CAMPAIGN UCLA
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Faculty
$ 941,480
Students
$ 1,967,842
Discretionary
$ 1,543,248
Capital
$ 6,366
Program/Research
$ 13,297,995
Progress Toward Goal
as of April 30, 2001
FIRST CENTURY SOCIETY
First Century Society
members are
alumni, faculty, staff and
friends who have made
provisions for UCLA
in their Will, Trust,
or other planned
giving arrangements.
With generosity and
foresight, the following
members have designated
the School of Public
Health as a beneficiary:
ANONYMOUS
LESTER & DEVRA BRESLOW
ANNE & JOHN COULSON
RALPH FRERICHS
ROBERT & DIANA GHIRELLI
RAYMOND & BETTY GOODMAN
CARL & FLORENCE HOPKINS
GERALD KOMINSKI
DAVID KRASNOW
LESTER & GENEVA MEIS
JEAN MICKEY
HELGA & WALTER
OPPENHEIMER
JEANNETTE OREL
ANNE REHER-LIVIO
GURDON & MARY ANN SMITH
SUEBELLE & DAVID VERITY
Anne and John Coulson
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