University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Vickie M. Mays, PhD, MSPH, is a professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Letters and Sciences, as well as a professor in the Department of Health Services, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Professor Mays is also the director of the UCLA Center on Research, Education, Training, and Strategic Communication on Minority Health Disparities. She holds a PhD in clinical psychology and an MSPH in health services, with postdoctoral training in psychiatric epidemiology and survey research as it applies to ethnic minorities (University of Michigan) and health policy (RAND). Professor Mays' research primarily focuses on the mental and physical health disparities affecting racial and ethnic minority populations. She has a long history of research and policy development in the area of contextual factors surrounding HIV/AIDS in racial and ethnic minorities. This work ranges from looking at barriers to education and services to understanding racial-based immunological differences that may contribute to health outcome disparities. Other areas of her research include looking at the role of perceived and actual discrimination on mental and physical health outcomes, particularly as these factors impact downstream disease outcomes. She is the co-principal investigator of the California Quality of Life Survey, a population based study of over 2,200 Californians on the prevalence of mental health disorders and the contextual factors associated with those disorders. Dr. Mays has provided testimony to a number of Congressional committees on her HIV, mental health, and health disparities research findings. She recently completed a term as chair of the Subcommittee on Populations of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, where she helped develop a report on the role of data collection in the reducing health disparities associated with race, ethnicity, and primary language. She has received a number of awards including one for her lifetime research on women and HIV from the American Foundation for AIDS Research, a Women and Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association, and several Distinguished Contributions for Research awards.
[IN-PERSON/LIVESTREAMED] Town Hall: Is it Time to Revisit the Belmont Report?
Sunday, December 3, 2023
12:40 PM – 1:35 PM ET