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WILLIAM VEGA is provost professor at the University of Southern California, with appointments in social work, preventive medicine, psychiatry, family medicine, psychology and gerontology. He is also the executive director of the Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Prior to joining the USC Roybal Institute, Vega was director of the Luskin Center on Innovation and an associate provost at UCLA. Elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2008, Vega is a specialist in the health of Latino populations, and has conducted community and clinical research projects on health, mental health and substance abuse in the U.S. and Latin America. He has published more than 190 articles and chapters, in addition to six books. Vega has received numerous awards, including the Community, Culture and Prevention Science Award from the Society for Prevention Research, and the Award of Excellence in Research by a Senior Scientist from the National Hispanic Science Network. In 2013, Vega gave the Rema Lapouse Award lecture for excellence in research from the Mental Health, Epidemiology and Statistics sections of the American Public Health Association.