The Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research is a joint program of the School of Public Health and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA. Since its inception in 1976, the Center has been nationally and internationally recognized for its pioneering work in cancer prevention and control research. The Center conducts rigorous peer-reviewed research in three major areas: the Healthy and At-Risk Populations Program, the Patients and Survivors Program, and the Molecular Epidemiology Program.  Please visit the Center's Website for more information.

Human activity has transformed environmental health in profound ways. While earlier environmental problems were relatively local the problems of today are persistent and global. Continued exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment, global warming, population growth, habitat destruction and social/psychosocial factors have produced crises that require long term social and technical change for their solutions. The science and knowledge we bring to the looming environmental crises must evolve to enable prevention/control and protection of public health; the programs in the Centers for Environmental Quality and Health seek to expand our knowledge base, provide exceptional training of students to address these issues, and interact with Southern California communities to better interface between the University and the public. The Centers and Programs listed here, including the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) (www.coeh.UCLA.edu), comprise the Centers for Environmental Quality and Health.

The Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities was established at UCLA in 1995 to address some of the most challenging health and social problems facing children and families. The center’s mission is to improve society’s ability to provide children with the best opportunities for health, well-being, and the chance to assume productive roles within families and communities. Through a unique interdisciplinary partnership between UCLA departments, schools, and affiliated institutions, including the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Education, Law, and Public Policy and Social Research and the Department of Psychology, as well as providers, community agencies, and affiliated institutions, a critical mass of expertise has been assembled to conduct activities in five major areas: (1) child health and social services, (2) applied research, (3) training of health and social service providers, (4) public policy research and analysis, and (5) technical assistance and support to community providers, agencies, and policymakers.

The Center for Metabolic Disease Prevention brings the best science to bear on the challenge of controlling the global epidemic of metabolic diseases, and provides leadership in metabolic disease prevention through interdisciplinary research, improving patient care and creating educational initiatives for students, health professionals and the public. This pioneering center is one of the first in the nation to integrate laboratory-based and population-based sciences in studying mechanisms and strategies for metabolic diseases prevention. In doing so, the Center unifies the many strengths and expertise of UCLA's departments and schools to investigate all facets of metabolic diseases and provides comprehensive multidisciplinary education and research training opportunities for students ranging from "sick" molecules to "sick" populations. For more information about the Center’s Burroughs Wellcome Fund Inter-school Training Program in Metabolic Diseases (BWF-IT-MD) and other programs, please visit www.mdtp.mednet.UCLA.edu and http://nutrigen.ph.UCLA.edu

The UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity (formerly Center to Eliminate Health Disparities) was established in 2004 to address the increasing disparities in health status and health care in the United States. The Center conducts community-based participatory intervention research in health promotion and disease prevention to mitigate disparities. The Center also facilitates community and academic partnerships in research, trains future leaders in health disparities research, provides technical assistance for implementing evidence-based programs that build on community needs and existing assets, and hosts annual community symposia on critical public health issues. This “center without walls” includes members from academia, government, and private/non-profit organizations to enable more effective collaboration with community partners to reduce health disparities across the lifespan. For more information, please visit the web site (healthequity.UCLA.edu).