Neal Halfon, MD, MPH, (Center Director) Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, and Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Co-Director, the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities; Director, Child and Family Health Program, School of Public Health; Division Chief, Child Health Policy and Community Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics; and Consultant at the RAND Corporation. Policy analysis and research expertise in child health policy and financing; children with special health care needs; access to care; foster care; managed care; service integration and coordination.
Miles Hochstein, PhD, (Assistant Director) Previously an AHCPR Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Health Program at RAND. Policy analysis and research expertise in child health policy, and health system structure and financing issues.
Jonathan Fielding, MD, MBA, MPH, Professor, Department of Health Services, and Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Co-Director, the UCLA Center for Healthier Children Families, and Communities. Expertise in health policy, health promotion and disease prevention in public and private sectors; community health assessment and improvement; system organization and finance.
Helen DuPlessis, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Director of Community Pediatrics at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center; and Medical Coordinator (West Area) Child Health Disability Prevention Program (CHDP) for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services; Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Public Health. Expertise in organization and utilization of child health services; medical standards and quality; EPSDT; perinatal substance abuse; child health outcome; managed care.
Mark Schuster, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Senior Natural Scientist, RAND. Expertise in quality of care in managed care settings; immunizations; quality, cost, and outcomes for children with AIDS.
Lauren Cherman, MPH, Staff Research Associate, Child and Family Health Program and the RAND Corporation. Interests in child abuse prevention; foster care; community health measurement.
Wendy Slusser, MD, MS, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA. Maternal and Child Health Consultant for Save the Children Federation, Asia Development Bank and Wellstart International; UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities. Expertise in infant nutrition; breastfeeding.
Michael Regalado, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, USC School of Medicine; Director, Child Development, Childrens Hospital LA; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health. Policy analysis and research expertise in early childhood development; comprehensive community-based early intervention services; sleep disorders.
Paul Newacheck, DrPH, Professor of Health Policy and Pediatrics, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco; Co-Director, Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center. Policy analysis and research expertise in childhood chronic illness; health services utilization; health care finance; access; managed care.
Harriette B. Fox, MSS, President of Fox Health Policy Consultants, Inc. Co-Director, Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center. Expertise in health care financing; EPSDT; early intervention services; managed care.
Margaret McManus, MSPH, President of McManus Health Policy, Inc. Co-Director, Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center; Staff Consultant to the Committee on Child Health Financing, American Academy of Pediatrics. Expertise in health care financing; managed care; children with special health care needs; state and federal relationships.
Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
National Center for Infancy and Early Childhood Health Policy