F.A. (Fred) Hagigi, DrPH, MBA

Professor of Health Services Professor of Health Services UCLA School of Public Health Director, Global Health Initiatives Department of Family Medicine UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Biographical Information

Fred Hagigi is a Professor of Health Services in the UCLA School of Public Health and Director of Global Health Initiatives in the Department of Family Medicine in the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He teaches Healthcare Finance, Marketing, and Applied Field Project in the Executive Master of Public Health (EMPH) Program. At the UCLA Anderson School of Management, he teaches the Business of Healthcare- Global Perspective for the Fully Employed MBA (FEMBA) Program. He serves as the Chair of the UCLA Healthcare Collaborative, a joint community-education program of UCLA’s Schools of Medicine, Management, Nursing and Public Health. Dr. Hagigi serves on advisory boards of various community and academic organizations, including the UCLA School of Nursing Global Health Committee. He lectures at various national and international meetings on healthcare delivery and education systems.

Dr. Hagigi is former Director of the UCLA Executive Education Programs in Healthcare Management & Policy where he designed and organized the Global Health Certificate for the EMPH program, and redesigned the EMPH curriculum along competency-based criteria, which earned the program its most recent maximum accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME).

Dr. Hagigi has been recognized by his peers, students, and industry with a number of awards including the 2007 UCLA Senate’s campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award, the first in the School of Public Health. He is a member of the Upsilon Phi Delta Honorary Society in Healthcare Management, and Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a Certified Management Consultant. Dr. Hagigi received his degrees in Industrial Engineering/Management, and Finance at the University of Utah; his MBA at Texas A&M University; his MPH and DrPH in Healthcare Management & Policy with Marketing cognate at UCLA; and his MA in Higher Education and Organization Change at UCLA.

Dr. Hagigi has 35 years of industry practice as well as academic teaching and administration. He has also worked during that time in various operational and consulting capacities in private and government-affiliated organizations. He has designed and operated numerous multi-specialty medical clinics, many of which provide care to the underserved. He consulted and taught for the US Veterans Administration (VA) system as an academic expert. He is an Affiliate Investigator for the VA Emergency Management Evaluation Center’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (CEMP).

He serves as a consultant evaluator for safety net providers, academic institutions and NGOs in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Caribbean nations. He has also consulted with various health ministries and agencies in these regions. As consulting faculty of the Management Development Institute at UCLA’s School of Management, he designed and taught workshops in financial management to managers of government agencies and NGOs in Africa, to build management capacity in their HIV/AIDS programs.

Among his current projects is the design, training, and implementation of Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) in developing countries. In November 2009, at the invitation of the Ministry of Health in Kenya, he led a team of professionals from UCLA Health Sciences for a two-day conference in Nairobi where he assembled representatives of 24 public and private organizations and formed a working group to develop an outline for an integrated emergency-response and disaster-management system. He participated as a panelist at the Global Emergency Medicine Conference held in Cape Town, South Africa in 2009, and consulted with the South African Ministry of Health on healthcare information systems and planning in underserved townships.