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Centers and Programs

Students at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health learn from and collaborate with 200 faculty members who are renowned leaders, experts and innovators in our community and at the state, national and international level. Our faculty not only teach tomorrow’s public health practitioners and educators, but they create new knowledge in the field, contribute their expertise to legislators and public health leaders, prevent disease and create programs that save millions of lives worldwide.

For more information about our centers contact please contact Cathy Lang, PhD at clang@ucla.edu

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The Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health was established in 2001 at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health as the result of a generous gift from the Fred H. Bixby Foundation. The Center has grown since then with the support of...
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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...
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Center for Environmental Genomics brings together experts from a variety of fields to investigate the molecular mechanisms by which environmental agents such as air pollutants and radiation interact with genetic predisposing factors...
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Infectious diseases are a significant cause of death world-wide and a cause of concern in the United States. One of the greatest challenges in public health and medicine is to understand the environmental and genetic factors that contribute to the...
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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.MissionTo improve society’s ability to provide children with...
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The Center for Public Health and Disasters was established in 1997 to address the critical issues faced when a disaster impacts a community. The center promotes interdisciplinary efforts to reduce the health impacts of domestic and international,...
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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...
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The last several years have seen major transformations in global public health, requiring major expansion and reconstruction of the international public health work force. Many emerging health problems require timely and sustained research efforts...
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The UCLA Center for Health Advancement provides enhanced analysis and evidence based information to help policy makers decide which policies and programs can best improve health and reduce health disparities.
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The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research is one of the nation's leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health policy information for California.
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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-...
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The UCLA/RAND Prevention Research Center conducts prevention research that addressees the needs of children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. The Center is a unique partnership of the UCLA School of Public Health, the UCLA Department...
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The World Policy Analysis Center aims to Improve the quantity and quality of comparative data available to policymakers, citizens, civil society, and researchers around the world on policies affecting human health, development, well-being, and...