Mini Plenary Speakers
Antronette (Toni) Yancey, MD, MPH is currently Professor, Department of Health Services, and Co-Director, Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Health Disparities (www.ph.ucla.edu/cehd), UCLA School of Public Health, and a nationally recognized leader in chronic disease prevention intervention, particularly in communities of color. She returned to academia full time in 2001 after five years in public health practice, first as city Director of Public Health, Richmond, VA, and, subsequently, as Director of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Dr. Yancey has authored more than 100 scientific publications, including more than 60 refereed journal articles and editorials. She has also generated $20 million in extramural funds, including four National Institutes of Health independent investigator (R01, R24) grants as principal investigator. She serves on the USDHHS Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Standing Committee on Childhood on Childhood Obesity and the Health Literacy Roundtable, the American Heart Association Physical Activity Sub-Committee, and the California Department of Public Health Advisory Committee. She chairs the Board of Directors, Public Health Institute. She recently completed service on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the IOM Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity Committee. Dr. Yancey completed her undergraduate studies in biochemistry and molecular biology at Northwestern University, her medical degree at Duke, and her preventive medicine residency/MPH at UCLA. She is also a basketball enthusiast; a public health commentator on local NPR affiliate, KPCC (www.kpcc.org/off-ramp); 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 (©1997 Imhotep Publishing, Inc., ISBN#0-9666488-0-3) and a spoken word/music CD, Renaissance Woman/Race Woman (©2001 Imhotep Publishing, Inc.—www.toniyancey.com).