The UCLA Career Development Program in Population-Based Cancer Prevention and Control Research
UCLA Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research
School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Career Development Program
Opportunities for Research and Degree Programs
The Career Development Program offers each participant the opportunity to take part in the ongoing research efforts of a faculty mentor, with whom the trainee will work as a junior investigator throughout the duration of the program. Under the mentor's guidance, the trainee will also conduct a multidisciplinary, translational independent research study based on the trainee's research interests. In the process of defining this study, trainees will select a second mentor from a discipline appropriate to the research, and different from that of the primary mentor.
Based on this program of research, our trainees will prepare and submit at least one manuscript for publication, and will develop, defend, and have evaluated by experienced reviewers a research proposal, which will be submitted to an external agency for peer-reviewed funding.
Program participants will take part in workshops, research symposia, and other meetings. They will also meet regularly in a journal club that will expose them to the breadth and scope of cancer control research, and will allow them to present their own research findings. Travel to and participation in national meetings will be supported by the program.
The Master in Public Health and the
Master of Science in Public Health Degrees
The Training Program provides participants the option to complete a Masters-level course of study in public health. Each of the five Departments in the UCLA School of Public Health (Health Services, Community Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences) offers two Masters level programs: the Master of Public Health (MPH), and the Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH). The MPH at UCLA is a professional degree in public health practice and applications, providing broad exposure to topics within each departmental field. The MSPH is a research-oriented degree that has rigorous requirements in the areas of research methodology and statistics, requires a thesis or major written report, and which prepares the student to participate in public health research.