Pamina M. Gorbach, MHS, DrPH

Pamina M. Gorbach M.H.S, Dr.P.H. has been a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the Fielding School of Public Health and the Division of Infectious Diseases in the David Geffen School of Medicine, at The University of California, Los Angeles for 25 years (since 2001). For 30 years she has led federally funded research on how infectious disease (HIV) care and treatment intersects with substance use for people on the margins and hardly reached, partnering with local agencies in Los Angeles. Starting with a passion for reproductive health she was swept up in the HIV epidemic and became committed to ending the epidemic. Pamina has devoted many years to teaching young scientists and public health persona: training and mentoring over 60 graduate students, postdoctoral scholars (from Asia and the US) and young physician/scientists. Pamina’s global health experience includes Cambodia, Vietnam, Peru, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Mali, Malawi, South Africa, and Ghana. In 2025 after the fires destroyed the Will Rogers riding school she has been welcoming their riders onto the small ranch in Topanga where she lives with her family, three horses and two mini donkeys to provide riding and recovery from post-fire trauma to as many as she can accommodate.