The UCLA/RAND Prevention Research Center
was created in 1998 as a Prevention Research Center by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Our Center's mission is to
conduct prevention research that:
- Addresses the needs of children, adolescents, young
adults, and their families;
- Builds empowering relationships with community
partners in Los Angeles and beyond; and
- Directly benefits communities and/or transforms
local, state, and national policies.
Our major research areas are: physical activity,
nutrition, and obesity; childhood immunizations; work-family conflict;
parent-child communication; cancer prevention and control; health care
utilization and quality of care. The Center is a unique partnership of
the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, the UCLA Department of Pediatrics,
the RAND Corporation (a non-partisan, private, non-profit research
institute), and a wide range of community partners. The Center's
multi-disciplinary faculty and staff represent the fields of public
health, medicine, psychology, sociology, economics, political science,
anthropology, education, statistics, and survey design.
The Center conducts community-based participatory
research jointly with its diverse community partners and includes a
center-wide community advisory board (CAB), project specific CABs, a
youth CAB, the Los Angeles Unified School District, LA County
Department of Health Services, and other local groups that serve LA
youth and their families. Primary funding sources have included the
CDC, the National Institutes of Health, the University-wide AIDS
Research Program, and foundations. The Center Director and Principal
Investigator is Roshan Bastani, PhD; Director for Research and
Operations and Co-Principal Investigator is Paul Chung, MD, MS; Deputy
Director for Research and Operations is Joan Tucker, PhD; Center
Project Director is Burt Cowgill, PhD. For more information, please
contact the Center Project Director, Burt Cowgill, PhD, at 310-794-3000
or bcowgill@ucla.edu.
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