Welcome to virtual home of…
Toni Yancey
Professor
Co-Director, Center to Eliminate Health
Disparities
DrPH Program Director
Department of Health Services
UCLA School of Public Health
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Phone: 310-794-9284 Fax: 310-825-3317
E-mail: ayancey@ucla.edu
Antronette K. Yancey, MD, MPH is currently
a professor in the Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health,
with primary research interests in chronic disease prevention and adolescent
health promotion. She returned to
academia full-time in 2001 after five years in public health practice, first as
Director of Public Health for the city of Richmond,
VA, and, until recently, as Director of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Dr. Yancey has authored more than 75
scientific publications, including briefs, book chapters, health promotion videos,
and among those, more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles. She has generated more than $14 million in
extramural funds, including three National Institutes of Health independent
investigator (R01, R24) grants as principal investigator. She serves on the Advisory Committee to the
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Dr. Julie Gerberding), Institute of Medicine (IOM) Progress in
Preventing Childhood Obesity Committee and Health Literacy Roundtable, American
Heart Association Physical Activity Sub-committee, and Board of Directors,
Public Health Institute.
Dr. Yancey
completed her undergraduate studies in biochemistry and molecular biology at Northwestern University, her medical degree at Duke,
and her preventive medicine residency/MPH at UCLA. She is a basketball enthusiast and
poet/spoken word artist published in the American
Journal of Preventive Medicine and several newspapers. Her book of poetry and art, a collaboration with artist Todd Berrien, An Old Soul
with a Young Spirit: Poetry in the era
of desegregation recovery, was published in 1997 and sold out of its first
printing. Her spoken word music CD, a collaboration with musicians Ciro Hurtado and Kim Jordan,
was released in 2001.
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