Dr. Lenore Arab, Ph.D.,

Professor of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health

LENORE ARAB, Ph.D., is a visiting professor of epidemiology at UCLA School of Public Health. Prior to this position she established and chaired the global epidemiology department at Amgen, a leading biotech company. She has served as professor of epidemiology and nutrition on leave from the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 12 years in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health prior to moving to California.

Dr. Arab's main research interests are anticarcinogens in foods, heterocyclic amines, prostate and breast cancer incidence and survival, the relationship of diet to athersclerosis, antioxidant nutrients in various diseases, iron nutriture, and multi-media approaches to dietary assessment. She has published over 170 original papers as well as numerous book chapters and monographs. Dr. Arab served as a nutrition advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) for 10 years and is the founding director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Nutritional Epidemiology in Berlin. She was the founding North American Editor of the journal Public Health Nutrition, Associate Editor of Nutrition and Cancer and sits on numerous other editorial boards.

At UNC, Dr. Arab was the program director for nutritional epidemiology and leader of a training program and NCI-sponsored training grant in that field. She served as the director of the Clinical Nutrition Research Core for Nutritional Epidemiology at UNC. She is an NIH reviewer for the CASE and HOP study sections. 

Dr. Arab received her B.S. from Colgate University, her M.Sc from Harvard University, and her Ph. D. from Justus Liebig University, in Giessen, Germany. She has five children and currently lives outside of Los Angeles, California.