This year's Luskin Summit will debut with a webinar featuring a conversation about public policy and health responses to COVID-19.

The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs wraps up its 25th anniversary celebration with the second convening of the Luskin Summit, a research-informed, cross-sector conversation about major issues facing the Los Angeles region. In light of the health crisis, this event will now be a virtual series of talks. This session marks the start of the series, featuring a conversation about public policy and health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic with Dean Gary Segura of UCLA Luskin and Dean Ron Brookmeyer of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Gary M. Segura is the Dean at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. His work focuses on issues of political representation and social cleavages, the domestic politics of wartime public opinion, and the politics of America's growing Latino minority. Segura served as an expert witness on the nature of political power in all three landmark LGBT marriage-rights cases in 2013 and 2015.

Ron Brookmeyer serves as Dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. In his research, Ron Brookmeyer uses the tools of the statistical, informational and mathematical sciences to address global public health problems. During a span of over three decades he developed statistical methods that sounded the alarm which helped address major global health challenges of our times. Ron Brookmeyer earned worldwide recognition for his work on predicting the magnitude of the impending HIV/AIDS epidemic with work beginning in the mid-1980s. His work on global public health problems also includes issues in bio-security, disease surveillance and health challenges of aging populations. Ron Brookmeyer’s research interests in biostatistical methodology include survival analysis, epidemic models, epidemiological methods and clinical trials.

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