The Center for Public Health and Disasters has compiled a list of faculty from the UCLA School of Public Health who have expressed interest in the area of bioterrorism. This is an informal working group of the UCLA School of Public Health. If you have questions regarding specific areas of bioterrorism, please feel free to contact faculty directly.

Linda Bourque, PhD
Title: Professor; Associate Director, UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters and Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center
Department: Community Health Sciences
Phone: 310-825-4053
Email: lbourque@ucla.edu
Interests: Intentional and unintentional injury; ophthalmology; research methodology (e.g., questionnaires, design and analysis of surveys, data processing procedures). Recent research focuses on: Community perceptions of and responses to disasters including the San Fernando (California) earthquake of 1971, the Whittier Narrows (California) earthquake of 1987, the Loma Prieta (California) earthquake of 1989, and the Northridge (California) earthquake of 1994; emergency preparedness in Los Angeles County schools; elites' perceptions of the value of 10-50 second warnings for earthquakes; and the evaluation of FEMA-funded hazard mitigation activities

Curtis Eckhert, PhD
Title: Professor; Department Chair
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Phone: 310-825-8429
Email: ceckhert@ucla.edu
Interests: Food borne toxins

Deborah Glik, ScD
Title: Professor; Director, UCLA Health and Media Research Group
Department: Community Health Sciences
Phone: 310-206-9548
Email: dglik@ucla.edu
Interests: Health communication; behavior change

James R. Greenwood (Rick), PhD, MPH
Title: Adjunct Professor; Director, UCLA Office of Environment, Health & Safety
Department: Epidemiology
Phone: 310-206-6544
Email: greenwood@admin.ucla.edu
Interests: Bioterrorism, Hazmat Response; radiological terrorism events

Peter Katona, MD
Title: Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine (Infectious Disease)
Department: Medicine-Infectious Disease
Phone: 310-208-1967, 310-440-0767
Email: pkatona@ucla.edu
Interests: Public health; nanotechnology biodiagnostics; bioterrorism hospital preparedness

Robert Kim-Farley, MD, MPH
Title: Visiting Professor
Department: Epidemiology and Community Health Sciences
Phone: 310-825-3300
Email: rkimfarley@ph.ucla.edu
Interests: Planning on smallpox preparedness, response and recovery issues; planning for deployment of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) in the Los Angeles County Operational Area; teaching on "Preparing for a Smallpox or other Bioterrorist Event" and "Principles of Control of Infectious Diseases"

Scott Layne, MD
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Epidemiology
Phone: 310-825-8193
Email: spl@lvik.ph.ucla.edu
Interests: Science, technology, and policy against bioterrorism; emergency responses to bioterrorism (serve as an official instructor for the United States Department of Homeland Security)

Michael Prelip, DPA, MPH
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor/Field Program Supervisor
Department: Community Health Sciences
Phone: 310-825-4506
Email: mprelip@ucla.edu
Interests: Development and evaluation of the Nutrition Friendly Schools and Community Model; evaluation of the school-based nutrition programs of the Los Angeles Unified School District; health communication research focusing on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention; a number of immunization campaigns; lead faculty for the Pacific Public Health Training Center (PPHTC), a collaborative effort among the Schools of Public Health at UCLA, UCB, SDSU, Loma Linda University and the University of Hawaii, School of Nursing that develops training to meet the needs of the public health workforce

Steven Rottman, MD, FACEP
Title: Adjunct Professor; Director, UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters and Pre-Hospital Care
Department: Community Health Sciences
Phone: 310-794-0577
Email: rottman@ucla.edu
Interests: Emergency medicine and disaster relief; infectious diseases; emergency public health preparedness/response; Incident Command System; biological, chemical, and radiological response; health department preparedness; risk communication; disaster plan development

Kimberley Shoaf, DrPH
Title: Assistant Adjunct Professor; Assistant Director, UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters
Department: Community Health Sciences
Phone: 310-794-0864
Email: kshoaf@ucla.edu
Interests: Impact of disasters on physical injuries; agency utilization in disasters; international health; emergency public health preparedness/response; Incident Command System; biological, chemical, and radiological response; health department preparedness; risk communication; disaster plan development

Paul Simon, MD, MPH
Title: Adjunct Associate Professor
Department: Epidemiology
Telephone: 213-240-7785
Email: psimon@dhs.co.la.ca.us
Interests: Public health surveillance

Frank Sorvillo, PhD
Title: Associate Professor In-Residence
Department: Epidemiology
Telephone: 310-825-1293
Email: fsorvillo@ucla.edu
Interests: Infectious disease epidemiology; surveillance and control of communicable disease; parasitic diseases

Marc Strassburg, DrPH
Title: Adjunct Professor
Department: Public Health-Epidemiology
Telephone: 213-240-7785
Email: mstrass@yahoo.com
Interests: Smallpox eradication; infectious diseases

Samuel Stratton, MD, MPH
Title: Adjunct Professor
Department: Community Health Sciences
Phone: 310-794-0864
Email: sstratton@worldnet.att.net
Interests: Public health, security along the U.S.-Mexico border, and emergency-disaster public health

Irwin (Mel) Suffet, PhD
Title: Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Phone: 310-206-8230
Email: msuffet@ucla.edu
Interests: Water quality issues - analysis of problems and treatment of drinking water supplies