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U C L A
PUBLIC HEALTH
Gene Block
Chancellor
Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean, UCLA School of Public Health
Sarah Anderson
Assistant Dean for Communications
John Sonego
Assistant Dean for Development
and Alumni Relations
Dan Gordon
Editor and Writer
Martha Widmann
Art Director
E D I TO R I A L B OA R D
Richard Ambrose, Ph.D.
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Roshan Bastani, Ph.D.
Professor, Health Services
Associate Dean for Research
Thomas R. Belin, Ph.D.
Professor, Biostatistics
Ralph Frerichs, D.V.M., Dr.P.H.
Professor, Epidemiology
F. A. Hagigi, Dr.P.H., M.B.A.
Associate Professor, Health Services
William Hinds, Ph.D.
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Moira Inkelas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Health Services
Michael Prelip, D.P.A.
Adjunct Associate Professor,
Community Health Sciences
Lisa Dooley and Lindsay Gervacio
Co-Presidents, Public Health Student Association
Christopher Mardesich, J.D., M.P.H. ’98
President, Alumni Association
features
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The Preemptive War
on Cancer: Heading
Off a Leading Killer
Before it Strikes
Much attention is paid to the need for breakthroughs
in cancer treatment. But in the fight
against the soon-to-be-leading cause of U.S.
deaths, public health is playing an equally
critical role.
10
Lisa V. Smith:
Bringing New
Recruits to Her
Epidemiological
Cause
She does important work
at the L.A. County Department
of Public Health,
but is equally passionate
about teaching and providing
opportunities for SPH
students to become future
colleagues.

Help Wanted:
Public Health
Faces a Workforce
Crisis
Alumni
Hall of Fame:
the 2008 Inductees
in every issue
12
A new report underscores
the strains on the system as
a shrinking pool of trained
professionals attempts
to tackle an increasingly
daunting set of challenges
18
Global
Partnerships:
Faculty Work
with Alumni
to Promote
International
Health
For many of the school’s
graduates working to improve
conditions overseas, relationships
established with their
professors continue to pay off.
34
23
28
31
32
35
RESEARCH
Fruits and vegetables for
WIC participants...salad bars
in schools...NSAIDs and
Parkinson’s...undocumented
Latinos’ use of health
services...quality of prostate
cancer pathology reports...
art as incentive for increasing
African American study
enrollment.
STUDENTS
FACULTY
NEWS BRIEFS
FRIENDS
ON THE COVER
In an era of immense public health challenges, a new report finds that the workforce is ill-equipped to
take them on. Examining the looming crisis and what needs to be done. Photo courtesy of ASPH.
PHOTOGRAPHY
ASUCLA / TOC: Hall of Fame; p. 33: Breslow Lecture
Reed Hutchinson / cover: Bastani, Smith, Thammawijaya; TOC: Smith; p. 4: Bastani; p. 10: Smith; p. 18: Detels;
p. 28: Jackson; p. 29: Thammawijaya; p. 31: Afifi; p. 32: Detels; p. 33: Clark, Godwin
Alex Berliner © Berliner Studio/BEImages / p. 33: Vuitton
Martha Widmann / p. 25
Courtesy of Dr. Beth Glenn / p. 6
Courtesy of Dr. Pamina Gorbach / p. 19
Courtesy of Dr. Fred Hagigi / p. 20
Courtesy of Dr. Donald Morisky / p. 21
Courtesy of Dr. Ralph Frerichs / p. 22
Courtesy of Dr. Antronette Yancey / p. 27
Courtesy of UCLA School of Public Health / p. 2; p. 31: bookshelf; p. 32: Armenian, Beijing Forum;
p. 33: Kagawa-Singer; p. 34; back cover
Getty Images © 2008 / TOC: partnerships; p. 9; p. 15: water quality; p. 16: teenage smoking; p. 18: partnerships
iStockphoto © 2008 / p. 7; p. 23
Punchstock © 2008 / TOC: cancer, help wanted; p. 4: cancer; p. 8; pp. 12-13; p. 15: asthma; p. 16: weighing;
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