UCLA School of Public Health
Dean
BOX 951772, 16-035 CHS
Los Angeles
CAUSA
90095-1772
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Linda Rosenstock is Dean of the UCLA School of Public Health, one of the nation’s top ranked schools with 700 graduate students and more than 200 faculty. She holds appointments as Professor of Medicine and Environmental Health Sciences and is a recognized authority in occupational and environmental health as well as global public health and science policy.
Prior to coming to UCLA in 2000, Rosenstock served for nearly seven years as the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), where she led a staff of 1,500 at the only federal agency mandate to undertake research and prevention activities in occupational safety and health. During her tenure, Rosenstock was instrumental in creating the National Occupational Research Agenda, a framework for guiding occupational safety and health research. She expanded the agency's responsibilities, staff size, and budget – doubling the Institute’s annual appropriations. In recognition of her efforts, Rosenstock received the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award, the highest executive service award in the government.
Dr. Rosenstock received her M.D. and M.P.H. from The Johns Hopkins University. She received advanced training at the University of Washington, where she was Chief Resident in Primary Care Internal Medicine and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. At the University of Washington, Dr. Rosenstock was active in clinical practice of both general internal medicine and occupational and environmental medicine.
Internationally, Rosenstock has been active in teaching and research in many developing countries and has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization. Dr. Rosenstock also chaired the United Auto Workers/General Motors Occupational Health Advisory Board. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) where she serves as a member of their Board on Health Sciences Policy. In 2003, she co-chaired the IOM committee addressing public health workforce needs that authored the report “Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century.”
Dr. Rosenstock chairs the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH). She led the organization’s taskforce which identified a critical public health workforce shortage.