Message from the Chair

Welcome to the Health Services community at UCLA. The UCLA School of Public Health is consistently rated as one of the top programs in the country. Health Services is regarded as one of the strongest departments in the United States. Our mission is to advance community health through scholarship relevant to healthcare policy and management.

For more than 45 years, our Health Services alumni have been a testament to this mission. UCLA graduates continue to make a difference in the public and private sectors by assessing critical community health problems, developing sensible policies and organizational strategies for their solution and assuring the efficiency and effectiveness of services delivered across the full health services spectrum.

Our academic programs continue to prepare future health care leaders with invaluable managerial, policy and research skills through a balance of rigorous curricula and experience-based learning.

UCLA students are taught by internationally-recognized faculty members who come from a wide range of backgrounds, including economics, history, law, management, medicine, policy analysis, psychology, and sociology. The common bond among our faculty is a steadfast commitment to solving problems and developing innovations in the access, cost and quality of health services from a population-based perspective.

I welcome your interest in the Department of Health Services and invite you to consider joining us in tackling the challenging, daunting and inspiring issues facing the health care field today.

Robert Kaplan, Ph.D
Professor and Chair