Public Health Department (323) 343-4740

Eleanor Ferguson-Marshalleck
Emerita Professor of Health Science; Ph.D., Stanford University; R.N.; P.H.N.
Contact: (323) 343-4737
E-mail: efergus@calstatela.edu

  • Community health
  • Primary care
  • Health promotion and prevention programs
  • Health assessment of communities

Fluent in: Spanish.

Beth Hoffman
Assistant Professor of Health Science; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Contact: (323) 343-4706
E-mail: bhoffma@calstatela.edu

  • Adolescent substance use and prevention
  • Social network analysis

Kimberly Kisler
Assistant Professor of Public Health; Ph.D., UCLA
Contact: (323) 493-8344 or (323) 343-5866
E-mail: kkisler@calstatela.edu

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Health and wellness
  • Health promotion

William M. London
Emeritus Professor of Health Science; Ed.M., Ed.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Contact: (323) 343-5867
E-mail: wlondon@calstatela.edu

  • Health-related superstition
  • Pseudoscience
  • Sensationalism
  • Schemes, frauds, deception, and misperception
  • Public health and health education

Nan Zhao Martin
Assistant Professor of Public Health; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Contact: (323) 343-5866
E-mail: nzhao4@calstatela.edu

  • Health communication
  • Information inequality
  • Health disparities
  • Immigrant health
  • Social influence
  • Cancer prevention
  • Vaccination

Melanie Sabado-Liwag
Assistant Professor of Public Health; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Contact: (323) 343-4746
E-mail: msabado@calstatela.edu

  • Health disparities
  • Asian and Pacific Islander health
  • Minority health
  • Behavioral epidemiology
  • Chronic disease prevention (specifically tobacco, mental health, and cancer)
  • Community-based participatory research (CBPR)

Behjat A. Sharif
Professor of Health Science; Ph.D., C.H.E.S., Texas Women’s University
Contact: (323) 343-4747
E-mail: bsharif@calstatela.edu

  • Health education
  • Stress
  • Health promotion/disease prevention
  • International health
  • Interpersonal conflict
  • Drug abuse and violent behavior
  • Impoverished minorities

Fluent in: Farsi (Persian).

Gregory D. Stevens
Professor of Public Health; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Contact: (310) 430-4792
E-mail: gdstevens@calstatela.edu

  • Vulnerable populations
  • Local, state and national health disparities
  • Health care politics and policy
  • Child and family health

Walter Zelman
Professor and Director of Health Science; Ph.D., UCLA
Contact: (323) 343-4635
E-mail: wzelman@calstatela.edu

  • California government and politics
  • Health policy and markets
  • Uninsured, insurance and managed care