Community Outreach Core Members
Core Leaders
Jeanne Miranda, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
Box 957082
Suite 300
UCLA Wilshire Center
10920 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7082
Phone: 310-794-3710
Fax: 310-794-3724
mirandaj@ucla.eduDr. Jeanne Miranda has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from University of Kansas and
completed post-doctoral training at University of California San
Francisco. She is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at
UCLA. Dr. Miranda’s major research contributions have been in
evaluating the impact of mental health care for ethnic minority
communities. Her most recent NIMH-funded trial found that short-term
care for depression was effective for low-income African American and
Latina women, many of whom had extensive histories of trauma. She was
the Senior Scientific Editor of Mental Health: Culture, Race and
Ethnicity, A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon
General, published August 2001.
Loretta Jones, M.A.
Healthy African American Families
3756 Santa Rosalia #320
Los Angeles, CA 90008
Phone
(323) 292-2002
Fax
(323) 393-6209
LJonesHAAF@aol.com
Loretta Jones is the founder and Executive Director of Healthy African American
Families (HAAF) II. As a “Community Gatekeeper,” Jones has dedicated
her entire life towards the hope and healing of community and
society-at-large. Her career as a civil rights activist, health policy
advocate, and social architect has spanned more than 30 years. In an
effort to level the playing field for all people, Ms. Jones continues
her unyielding commitment as a change agent against disparities in
human health, development, and opportunity. She is a member of the
Advisory Council planning NICHD’s longitudinal child health study and
chairs its Social Justice committee. She is a co-investigator of the
NIMH UCLA/RAND Center for Research on Quality in Managed Care, the NIA
UCLA Center for Health Improvement in Minority Elderly (CHIME), and the
NIH Drew/UCLA Project EXPORT, as well as a recipient of numerous CDC
grants and contracts. She is a member of the UCLA Institutional Review
Board (IRB) for protection of human subjects. Ms. Jones was recently
honored by the CDC as their first recipient of an award for public
leadership in overcoming health disparities.
Core Faculty
Sarah A. Fox, Ed.D.,MSPH
Professor, Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 2010
CAMPUS 718648
Phone: (310) 794-8500
Fax: 310-794-8300
sfox@mednet.ucla.eduDr. Sarah A. Fox is Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health
Services Research in the Department of Medicine, University of
California at Los Angeles. She is also the Director of the Center of
Community Partnerships for Health Promotion, also at UCLA. Her research
focus includes developing and testing community-based strategies to
increase cancer screening at the individual level, the physician-level,
and the church-level. Although Dr. Fox’s original research concentrated
mostly on breast cancer screening, she now is concentrating on reducing
barriers to screening for colorectal cancer. She has been extensively
funded for her work by the National Cancer Institute of the National
Institutes of Health and is the author of numerous publications in the
medical and public health literature. Dr. Fox has served on many
advisory committees at the local, state and national level.
