“Courses in epidemiology, public health and global health -- three subjects that were not offered by most colleges a generation ago -- are hot classes on campuses these days.”
Departments
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is comprised of five departments and two interdepartmental programs housed at the school:
Biostatistics
Biostatisticians collaborate with scientists in nearly every area related to health and they make major contributions to our understanding of cancer, AIDS, genetics, and the determinants of health. The department's research programs in quantitative AIDS epidemiology, exact inference in multivariate discrete data, optimal design theory and multivariate survival models are well-respected nationally and internationally. Faculty members collaborate with investigators in many diverse disciplines.
Biostatistics
Community Health Sciences
The Department of Community Health Sciences is concerned with social and behavioral research applied to health, health promotion, maternal and child health, nutrition, and public health practice.
Faculty and student research activities focus on programs, policies, and actions that can promote health in the context of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental factors.
Community Health Sciences
Environmental Health Sciences
The Department of Environmental Health Sciences explores the fundamental relationship between human health and the environment. The field of environmental health grew out of a need to protect workers from very high exposures to chemical and physical hazards in industrial settings. The methods developed for the work place are now used to measure the exposure of ordinary citizens to environmental agents as they move through the many microenvironments of everyday life.
Environmental Health Sciences
Epidemiology
Epidemiology advances the field of knowledge of disease causation, transmission and prevention through studies of the distribution of diseases in human populations, through laboratory studies and through incorporation of techniques derived from other disciplines; and provides a technical base for development of the optimal use and distribution of health resources for the promotion of community health.
Epidemiology
Health Services
Health Services researchers develop new ideas, theories and practices that contribute to improving the population's health and the personal health of individuals by producing research findings advancing the field of health services research and understanding and improving the performance of health institutions in the United States and globally.
Health Services
Quotable
For A Global Generation, Public Health Is A Hot Field
Washington Post Staff Writer 9/19/2008