Associate Professor

UCLA Department of Health Services
School of Public Health
Box 951772, CHS 61-243B
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Telephone: 310-825-7188
Fax: 310-206-3566
Email: Davidson@ucla.edu

Pamela Davidson, Ph.D., teaches ‘organization and management processes’ and ‘health program evaluation’ in the UCLA Department of Health Services. Her research areas include leadership and organizational development and access to medical care. She has directed large scale multi-site research and evaluation studies for 15 years to investigate medical and dental care access, geographic variation and determinants of safety net performance and breast cancer stage at diagnosis, and organization and leadership development. Previously she chaired two academic programs in health services management. Prior to that she developed and expanded statewide a not-for-profit organization, conducting regional forums on health policy decision making. Dr. Davidson is on the Review Board for the Journal of Health Administration Education and Journal of Community Dentistry and Epidemiology, and serves on the NCHL Advisory Council on Research & Evaluation. Currently she is working with the leadership team to build the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute designed to eliminate barriers and enhance collaboration and growth among the basic, biomedical, clinical, and population-based sciences to accelerate the pace and translation of scientific discoveries.

Selected Publications

Davidson, P., Motamedi, K. and Raia, T. “The Role of Evaluation in Management Consulting.” Academy of Management, Management Consulting Division, 3rd International Conference on Management Consulting, Conference Programme Book of Abstracts, May 31-June 2, 2007, p.35.

Davidson PL, Griffith JR, Sinioris ME, Carreon DC. “Evidence-Based Leadership Development for Improving Organizational Performance. Evaluation Report to the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL), Aug 2005.

Davidson, PL, Carreon, DC, Baumeister, S, Nakazono, TT, Gutierrez, JA, Afifi, AA, Andersen, RM. Influence of Contextual Environment and Community-Based Dental Education On Practice Plans of Graduating Seniors. J Dent Educ, 2007, 71(3): 403-18.
Davidson, P.L., Bastani, R.B., Nakazono, T.T., Carreon, D.C. The Role of Community Risk Factors and Resources on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis. Cancer, 2005, Mar 1;03(5):922-30.

Andersen, R.M., Davidson, P.L., Atchison, K.A., Hewlett, E., Freed, J.R., Friedman, J.A., Thind, A., Gutierrez, J.J., Nakazono, T.T., Carreon, D.C. Pipeline, Profession, & Practice Program: Evaluation to Assess Changes in Dental Education, J. Dent. Ed., February 2005, 69(2):239-248.)

Davidson, P.L., Andersen RM, Wyn R, Brown ER. “A framework for evaluating effects of safety net and other community-level factors on access for low-income populations. Inquiry, Volume 41: pp. 21-38, Spring 2004.

Davidson, P.L., Calhoun, J.G., Sinioris, M.E., Griffith, J.R. “A framework for evaluating and continuously improving the NCHL transformational leadership initiative.” Invited paper, Quality Management in Health Care, Fall 2002.

Davidson, P.L. (Guest Editor)
Transforming Health Services Management Education and Development: A Challenge for the New Millennium. Journal of Health Administration Education, 18:1 (Winter) and 18:2 (Spring) 2000.

Davidson, P.L., Cunningham, WE, Nakazono, TT, Andersen, RM. Evaluating the Effect of Usual Source of Dental Care on Access to Dental Services: Comparisons among Diverse Populations. Medical Care Research and Review, March 1999, 56(1): 74-93.

Andersen RM and Davidson PL (Editors)
Ethnicity, Aging, and Oral Health Outcomes: Findings from ICS-II USA
Research Locations. Advances in Dental Research, 1997, 11(2).

Book Chapters

Andersen RM, Davidson PL. (Chapter 1), Improving access to care in America: Individual and contextual factors.” In Andersen RM, Rice TH, Kominski GF (Editors), Changing the American Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2007