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Community Health Sciences


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The Department of Community Health Sciences is the academic department within the UCLA School of Public Health concerned with social and behavioral research applied to health, health promotion, maternal and child health nutrition and public health practice. Faculty and student research activities focus on programs, policies, and actions that can promote health in the context of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental factors. Of particular interest is how social and cultural factors, social programs, the health care system, and social policies influence health beliefs and perceptions, health behaviors and health status within populations taking disparities into account. The curriculum integrates basic theories, research methods and programmatic strategies and applies them to real problems of human populations.

Degrees Offered:
Masters of Public Health - M.P.H
Master of Science - M.S.
Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D.
Doctor of Public Health - Dr.P.H.
Learning objectives for each program
Application Information

Anne Pebley
Chair, PhD, Cornell University
Email: pebley@ucla.edu

225 Students, master's and doctoral

22 full-time Faculty; 36 part-time Faculty
Faculty Profiles

Department of Community Health Sciences
UCLA School of Public Health
P.O. Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772

Email: Tanya Youssephzadeh

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