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JUNE 2008
UCLA
PUBLIC HEALTH Confronting a Workforce Crisis
Everyone wants cancer cures, but isn’t it better not to get cancer at all? Public health leaders such as Roshan Bastani are on the task.
Lisa V. Smith loves nothing more than preparing her SPH students to become her colleagues at the L.A. County Department of Public Health.
As a clinician in rural Thailand, he felt powerless to effect change. As a UCLA-trained epidemiologist, his work will affect the health of millions.