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= Roshan Bastani = Roshan Bastani is a social and health psychologist. She is a full-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Health Policy and Management, and she serves as the director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Center for Prevention Research. At the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Bastani is the Director of Disparities and Community Engagement and the Co-Director of Prevention and Control Research.

Education
Bastani earned her B.A. and M.A. in Psychology in 1974 and 1976, respectively, at Bombay University in Bombay, India. In 1986, she earned her Ph.D. in Psychology (Social/Health) from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.

Career
From 1986 to 1987, Bastani was a visiting assistant professor at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in the Department of Psychology. Then, in 1987, she served as the Assistant Director for Evaluation for the Division of Cancer Control at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC), a position she held until 1990, when she became the Associate Director for the Center of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, a joint program between UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health and the JCCC. From 1995 to 2018, Bastani was the Director of the Health and At-Risk Populations Program at the JCCC; since 2007, she has been the JCCC Director of Disparities and Community Engagement, and since 2018, she has served as the Co-Director of the JCCC Cancer Control and Survivorship Program.

In addition to these roles, Bastani has worked as a professor at the Fielding School of Public Health since 1990; she was assistant professor from 1990 to 1996, associate professor from 1996 to 2002, and is now a full-time professor. Also at the School of Public Health, she was the Associate Dean for Research for 11 years (2001-12). In 2004 she became the Co-Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity alongside Dr. Antronette Yancey, the Co-Founder of the Center ; in 2013, following Yancey's passing, Bastani became the Director of the Center. In 2011, she also became the Director of the UCLA Center for Prevention Research. On Women's Equality Day, she was one of 100 women honored in "100 in 100" by UCLA Health in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Bastani's research interests lie in the prevention and control of diseases among disadvantaged groups. She has also worked to implement and test various kinds of interventions to improve health care access and reduce health disparities for over 30 years. Since 1988, she has received continued research funding from the National Institutes of Health and has conducted a number of studies on immigrant, low income, and ethnic minority groups. Currently, she is conducting research including implementation trials aimed at increasing HPV vaccine uptake in low-income, ethnic minority adolescents, and preventing obesity in preschool-aged children in disadvantaged neighborhoods. In addition to her research, Bastani has worked towards mentoring junior researchers and training the next generation of health disparities scientists, particularly those who are themselves ethnic minority individuals. She led a post-doctoral program at the NIH for over 15 years, which trained a significant amount of M.D. and Ph.D. scientists, many of whom went on to work in academia or research.

Research
Bastani's main research focus is on addressing health disparities, particularly those related to cancer. Her research includes a wide variety of diseases, including various types of cancer screenings and diagnostic follow-ups, as well as prevention of melanomas, control of obesity and tobacco, and HPV vaccine uptake. Through her research, she aims to study what barriers and facilitators exist in the health behaviors of underserved groups and implement interventions to reduce health disparities.

She also was the lead developer of the Multi-Level Health Outcomes Frameworks (MHOF), which was a model designed to guide intervention research in disease prevention and control. The MHOF has been tested in a wide variety of studies including many different racial and ethnic groups, intervention types, and disease targets, and has proven itself to be a robust model. The MHOF has also shown that the major factors driving health behaviors are similar across different racial groups.

Bastani has also been a part of community-partnered intervention trials. She worked with the LA County Health Department to increase breast and cervical cancer screenings and follow-up among low-income patients. She also was able to help increase the screenings for Hepatitis B among the Korean immigrant population among a sample of 52 churches by 3-fold.

Bastani also has a research focus on the populations at high risk for cancer due to their family history. She was an early pioneer in the use of cancer registries to get more representative and diverse samples for cancer control studies. In 1989, she was awarded the NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) for her work to increase mammograms for people who are first-degree relatives of breast cancer patients. She found that the intervention was successful among Whites and Asians, but not Latinas and African Americans. Similarly, for prostate cancer cases, the intervention was effective in all ethnic groups except African Americans. Her results showed the importance of ensuring that research groups include sufficient numbers of ethnic minority individuals. Currently, Bastani is working with Dr. Beth Glenn, a professor at UCLA's School of Public Health, to perform a similar intervention on the children of melanoma survivors.