Corrina Moucheraud, ScD, MPH, a global health
policy, systems, and services researcher, has been named an associate center
director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR).
Moucheraud brings over 15 years of experience in
global public health research — focusing on areas including HIV/AIDS, women’s
health, malaria, and non-communicable diseases such as hypertension — with
projects in many lower-resource countries in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia.
She has been a UCLA CHPR faculty associate since April 2016, and will share
expertise on how global health policies can be used to inform U.S. health
policies.
“I am thrilled to welcome Dr. Corrina Moucheraud
to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research leadership team,” says UCLA CHPR
Director Ninez A. Ponce, PhD, MPP. “We are at a critical point in time for
global health. And today’s global health challenges require commitment and
collaboration. Dr. Moucheraud’s vast experience in global health research,
coupled with her passion for health equity and deep knowledge of global health
policy and health systems, make her the right person to help us enhance the
center’s impact globally.”
“I am honored to join the UCLA Center for Health
Policy Research in this role, and to have the opportunity to engage more deeply
with the Center’s work on health equity, data democratization, and
evidence-based policymaking,” said Moucheraud. “In our interconnected global
community, there are endless opportunities for bidirectional learning and
insights, and I am excited to engage in UCLA CHPR’s ongoing work as well as
develop new projects together. The Center’s vision and values align with my own
in really inspiring ways, and I am thrilled to be taking on this new role.”
An Associate Professor in the Health Policy and
Management Department at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (FSPH),
Moucheraud was recently named director of the department’s PhD and MS programs,
where she will work with and help develop the next generation of leaders in
public health and health care.
“Working with students is one of the most
rewarding parts of my job. I mentor a diversity of students, from
undergraduates to medical students to master's and doctoral students at FSPH,”
says Moucheraud. “I enjoy developing multi-year relationships with mentees, as
this allows me to adjust roles, skills-building, and responsibilities as
students' own interests evolve. I’ve also worked with various students on many
of my research projects — both here in Los Angeles and around the world.”
Conducting both quantitative and qualitative
research, Moucheraud focuses on the issue areas concerning the delivery of
high-quality, equitable, and sustainable care in under-resourced settings.
Her research spans across the world — from using
equity-based approaches to decreasing the incidence of HIV/AIDS here in Los
Angeles County and throughout California; to addressing the significant
cervical cancer burden in Malawi, Africa; to evaluating health systems to
improve hypertension outcomes among adults in Thailand; to reducing provider
bias towards adolescents seeking family planning services in Tanzania, Burkina
Faso, and Pakistan. Her work has been supported through more than a dozen
grants from organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
National Cancer Institute, California HIV/AIDS Research Program, and more.
Over the last 10 years, Moucheraud has authored
or co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, which have appeared in
journals such as Health Affairs, JAMA Cardiology, BMC Public Health, AIDS and
Behavior, and many more. She also serves as the chairperson of the
AcademyHealth Global Health and Health Care Interest Group Advisory Committee,
a network of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and trainees committed
to fostering the global development, dissemination, and use of health services
research to improve the quality, efficiency, effectiveness, and outcomes of
care and the health status and quality of life globally.
In a recent Ask
the Expert Q&A with
UCLA CHPR, Moucheraud sheds light on the deeper implications underscoring the
intersection of global and U.S. health policies, noting that a lot can be
learned from global health researchers about culturally-competent data measurement
for diverse populations.
Moucheraud earned her MPH at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and her ScD in Global Health and Population from the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health. In 2021, she was named a visiting scholar by the
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) branch of the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical and Translational Science Awards
Program.
UCLA CHPR has also appointed two esteemed researchers to leadership
positions:
Ying-Ying Meng, Dr.PH, has been named Director of Research at UCLA CHPR. Meng
previously served as a senior research scientist and co-director of the Chronic
Disease Program at the Center for over 20 years. She has worked to establish
UCLA CHPR as a recognized source of important analyses of population-based data
for understanding the relationship between physical and social environments and
chronic disease morbidities. Meng has served as principal investigator/project
director for numerous groundbreaking studies to examine the complex
relationships between health and social position (e.g., poverty level,
race/ethnicity), environmental context (e.g., policy, traffic/air pollution,
access to care), and behavior (e.g., smoking); as well as heterogeneities in
their relationships. She has advanced expertise in linking and analyzing health
and environmental data to research the causes of and solutions to inequities in
health and health care delivery from a holistic perspective.
Meng is currently leading a statewide
evaluation of the collective impact of the California Department of Public
Health California Tobacco Control Program’s Priority Populations
Initiative. She is also a principal investigator for various grants, including
a high-impact research project studying state and local policies on
smoking behaviors and disparities, and a study that evaluates the impacts
from short-term particulate matter exposures on work loss days in normal
times or during and after wildfires.
In her new role, Meng will facilitate and guide
UCLA CHPR’s research endeavors, support research staff, and build on UCLA
CHPR’s nearly 30-year history of innovative research through promoting research
partnerships.
Kathryn G.
Kietzman, PhD, has been named
director of UCLA CHPR’s Health Disparities Program. A senior research scientist
at UCLA CHPR and an associate researcher in the Department of Community Health
Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Kietzman’s research
focuses primarily on the long-term health and social care needs of physically,
socially, and financially vulnerable populations, including older adults and
people with disabilities.
Kietzman currently leads the California Health
Interview Survey Long Term Services and Support study aimed at understanding
the needs of Californians who experience difficulties with certain activities
of daily life, such as dressing, bathing, walking, or doing errands. These data
have helped inform Governor Gavin Newsom's Master Plan for Aging Research
Subcommittee, which Kietzman was tapped to serve on in 2020. The group has
worked to identify data sources and needs, recommended measures to include in a
data dashboard, and developed a proposal for a research agenda — all designed
to support and measure progress as the state implements its master plan.
Other recent studies include an evaluation of
how older adults with serious mental illness are served through California’s
public mental health delivery system, and an investigation of how dual eligible
health care consumers (i.e., those insured by both Medicare and Medi-Cal)
access and use information to make decisions about their health care options.
In her new role, Kietzman will oversee some of
UCLA CHPR’s key initiatives, including older adult health and immigrant health,
including the Research on ImmiGrant HealTh and State policy (RIGHTS) study,
designed to understand the experiences that Latino and Asian immigrants who
live in California have encountered in health care and other socioeconomic
factors that may impact their health status and outcomes.