Manal J Aboelata

Born and raised in Oakland, California, Manal J. Aboelata lives and works in the Crenshaw Community of south Los Angeles. Manal is Deputy Executive Director at Prevention Institute, a national non-profit dedicated to advancing effective strategies to achieve health equity, prevent illness and injury, and ensure safe and healthy communities. An epidemiologist by training, Manal conducts research and advocates to improve health equity and racial justice. Manal wrote Healing Neighborhoods following an inspiring trip to Medellin, Colombia. She is co-author of a chapter in Making Healthy Places and wrote the foreword for Schools that Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind (Island Press). Manal graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a Masters in Epidemiology and from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts. Manal was inducted into UCLA Hall of Fame (2009) and was a Stanton Fellow of the Durfee Foundation from 2018 to 2020.