Julia Heck

Associate Professor

Associated Faculty
310.442.3989

Department of Epidemiology
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
650 Charles E. Young DR S
Los Angeles, CA 90095


Academic Titles/Accomplishments/Affiliations:

AB, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MPH, Boston University
PhD, Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health


I joined UCLA in 2009 and am an Associate Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Prior to coming to UCLA I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an agency of the World Health Organization. I am a member of the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium, the Children’s Oncology Group, and the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium.

Recent Publications

Prenatal pesticide exposure and childhood leukemia- A California statewide case-control study. 
Park AS, Ritz B, Yu F, Cockburn M, Heck JEInternational journal of hygiene and environmental health. (2020) May 1;226:113486.

Spina bifida and pediatric cancers
Heck JE, Lee PC, Wu CK, Li CY, He D, Federman N, Yu F, Olsen J, Ritz B, Arah OA, Hansen J. Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. 2020 Apr 29:1-7.

Gestational risk factors and childhood cancers: a cohort study in Taiwan. 
Heck JE, Lee PC, Wu CK, Tsai HY, Ritz B, Arah OA, Li CY. International Journal of Cancer. (2020) Feb 5.