Dr. Elizabeth Mayeda

Biography

Elizabeth Rose Mayeda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Her research focuses on identifying modifiable determinants of cognitive decline in older adults and developing effective population-level strategies to promote cognitive and brain health in late life. Mayeda's work addresses methodological challenges in longitudinal studies of cognitive aging and dementia risk, with the aim of improving causal inference in dementia research. Recognized as an expert in dementia epidemiology and epidemiologic methods, she has received several awards, including the Society for Epidemiologic Research's Brian MacMahon Early Career Award in 2020, and she is set to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2025. She holds various leadership roles in national and international committees advancing quantitative methods in applied research. Mayeda completed her BA in Integrative Biology and Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, her MPH in Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and her PhD in Epidemiology and Translational Science at the University of California, San Francisco. She joined the faculty at UCLA in 2018 after completing her postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF.

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