Dr. Mona AuYoung received her Ph.D. in health services and M.P.H. in community health sciences from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health. This fellowship will provide her with the opportunity to build upon her work in understanding how organizations can influence patient health behaviors and outcomes. Prior to her career in research, she worked as a certified athletic trainer for UC Berkeley and Woodside High School as well as within both inpatient and outpatient physical therapy clinics. More recently, she has taught courses in Public Health at CSU Los Angeles and Kunming Medical University. She also holds an M.S. in kinesiology from CSU Hayward and a B.A. in biology from UC Berkeley.
Dr. AuYoung was a 2014 AcademyHealth Delivery System Science Fellow. Her host site was the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Ann Arbor, MI.