Antronette K. (Toni) Yancey, MD, MPH

Antronette K. (Toni) Yancey, MD, MPH is currently Professor, Department of Health Services, and Principal Investigator, Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities (www.ph.ucla.edu/cehd), UCLA School of Public Health. She returned to academia full time in 2001 after five years in local public health practice in Richmond, VA and Los Angeles County. Dr. Yancey has authored more than 100 scientific publications, including policy briefs and white papers, book chapters, federal expert committee reports, health promotion videos, and among these, 70 refereed journal articles and editorials. She has generated more than $25 million in extramural funds, including four NIH independent investigator grants (R01, R24) as principal investigator. Among others, she serves on the USDHHS Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee, the American Heart Association Physical Activity Sub-Committee, the Institute of Medicine Standing Committee on Childhood on Childhood Obesity, and the California Department of Public Health Advisory Committee. She also chairs the Board of Directors of the Oakland, California-based Public Health Institute, and recently completed service on Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute of Medicine Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity Committee. Dr. Yancey completed her undergraduate studies in biochemistry and molecular biology at Northwestern University, where she was a starting center on an AIAW Elite 8 varsity basketball team; her medical degree at Duke; and her MPH, including preventive medicine residency training, at UCLA. She is also a NPR public health commentator (http://www.scpr.org/) and a published poet/spoken word artist, with a book of poetry and art, An Old Soul with a Young Spirit: Poetry in the era of desegregation recovery, and a spoken word/music CD, Renaissance Woman/Race Woman (http://www.toniyancey.com/poetry/).