Professor, DrPH Program Director
UCLA School of Public Health

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Phone: (310) 206-8729
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.