Alison K. Herrmann, PhD
Associate Director and Research Scientist,
UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Co-Director, Disparities, Community Outreach and Engagement UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Alison Herrmann is Associate Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente
Center for Health Equity and Research Scientist in the UCLA Fielding
School of Public Health. She is also Co-Director of Community Outreach
and Engagement at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. In
these roles, she is responsible for: identifying and facilitating
opportunities to engage faculty and community stakeholders in research
and outreach activities; designing and delivering training and capacity
building activities to increase community partners’ ability to use
evidence-based approaches; providing technical assistance, oversight and
quality control monitoring for community-based research projects
conducted in a variety of settings including clinics, schools, churches and
worksites. Dr. Herrmann currently serves as an investigator on a number
of federally and state funded research projects aimed to improve health
and reduce health disparities. These include studies aimed to: prevent
tobacco use, increase HPV vaccination, prevent/control obesity, and
increase colorectal cancer screening. Priority populations included in
these projects include safety net clinic patients, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
youth, low income students (preschool through high school), and
Indigenous Mexican agricultural workers.
Dr. Herrmann earned her PhD in Health Policy and Management from
UCLA in 2012 and has been working to develop, deliver, evaluate and
disseminate programs aimed to improve health in diverse communities
across Los Angeles and surrounding counties since 2004. She has been
involved with CDOC since 2014, actively participating in and chairing
multiple working groups over the years. Dr. Herrmann has served on the
CDOC Executive Committee since 2018 and the Cancer Plan Advisory
Committee since 2019.