headshot of UCLA Executive MPH faculty member Jennifer Fagen. She has short straight blond hair and is wearing a burgundy colored top

Jennifer Fagen, MS

Course: Healthcare Marketing

Jennifer Fagen, MS is a healthcare marketing and communications executive with more than 20 years of experience in brand strategy, integrated marketing, reputation management, partnerships, and organizational communications. She currently leads marketing and communications for Adventist Health’s Southern California Network, supporting four hospitals and strategies spanning clinical growth, physician and consumer engagement, reputation, and employee culture and communications.

Previously, Fagen served as Executive Director of Brand Strategy and Creative Services at Cedars-Sinai, where she led enterprise brand positioning, visual identity and brand architecture, and the development of integrated content and brand engagement strategies across paid, earned, shared, and owned channels. She also held senior marketing leadership roles at UCLA Health and the Motion Picture & Television Fund, with experience spanning research, strategic partnerships, co-branding, and organizational transformation.

An experienced executive leader and mentor, Fagen brings contemporary healthcare practice into the classroom, exploring AI and emerging technologies, behavioral and audience insights, data-informed decision-making, integrated communications, brand strategy, and the evolving ways organizations build trust and engagement with stakeholders. She holds an M.S. from USC Annenberg and has completed executive education at Harvard Business School and Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business.

  • Program: EMPH