Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH)
www.coeh.ucla.edu
Established by the California Legislature and Executive Branch in 1978, the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) is one of three state-funded programs for research, training, and service in occupational and environmental health. COEH faculty from Public Health, Nursing, and Medicine train occupational and environmental health professionals and scientists, conduct research, and provide service through consultation, education, and outreach.
Human activity has transformed environmental health in profound ways. Environmental problems are now global and long-lasting. Toxic chemical exposure, global warming, population growth, habitat destruction, and social/psychosocial factors have produced crises that require long-term social and technical change for their solutions. COEH-affiliated centers and programs seek to expand our knowledge base, provide exceptional training of students to address these issues, and interact with Southern California communities as an interface between the University and the public.
Director: John R. Froines, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Health,
Environmental Health Sciences
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Southern California Particle Center (SCPC)
www.scpcs.ucla.edu
Established in 1999 and renewed in 2005 through funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the overall objective of the SCPC is to investigate the underlying mechanisms that produce the health effects associated with exposure to particulate matter (PM), and to understand how toxic mechanisms and resulting health effects vary with the source, chemical composition, and physical characteristics of PM. Participating faculty within the SCPC comprise a wide range of disciplines which have generated important findings and data on air pollution in the Los Angeles Basin.
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Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (SCEHSC)
www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/departments/preventive_medi-cine/divisions/occupational/occ_environmental/scehsc/index.html
The SCEHSC was established through funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Researchers and professionals from UCLA and USC collaborate to create an interdisciplinary approach to the study and advancement of research in environmental health. The SCEHSC primarily focuses on using epidemiologic methods to study effects of the environment on human health, especially with regard to the multiethnic populations of California with an overall goal to understand how environmental factors affect health and how personal factors modify response.
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Southern California NIOSH Education and Research Center (ERC)
www.ph.ucla.edu/erc/
www.ph.ucla.edu/erc/
The ERC is one of 16 multidisciplinary centers in the U.S. supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for education and research in the field of occupational health. The Center supports graduate degree programs in Occupational Medicine at UCLA and UCI, and Occupational Health Nursing and Industrial Hygiene at UCLA by providing student and infrastructure support. It fosters a focus for multidisciplinary research in the broad field of occupational health. It also supports a Continuing Education and Outreach Program, Hazardous Substances training for hazardous waste workers and Industrial Hygiene students, and a Pilot Project Research Training Program for Occupational Safety and Health trainees. The Center is closely linked with the COEHs at UCLA and UC Irvine.
UCLA-Fogarty Training Program in Occupational and Environmental Health
www.coeh.ucla.edu/fogarty.html
The UCLA-Fogarty Training Program was established to provide training to graduate students from Mexico in environmental and occupational health fields. Since 1995, masters and doctoral students enrolled in Mexican institutions have been brought to UCLA for training in such fields as air pollution, water quality, environmental chemistry, epidemiology, ergonomics, industrial hygiene, exposure assessment, pollution prevention, and toxicology. Training is provided via classroom work and collaborative research between UCLA and our Mexican research partners.
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Southern California Consortium on Asthma and Outdoor Air Quality
This consortium was created by the South Coast Air Quality Management District to further research addressing the underlying basis and causation of asthma associated with air pollutants, placing emphasis on the mechanistic basis of exposure-related health effects, on research which provides additional insights into the sources of pollution responsible for asthma, and on creating greater knowledge of dose-response relationships. The Consortium is based at UCLA and includes researchers from UC Irvine and USC.
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