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    October 4, 2024

    Evaluating the Los Angeles Initiatives to Reduce Targeted Violence

    Los Angeles is taking on the major challenge of how to reduce targeted violence that arises from hate and bias.

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    October 4, 2024

    Community Resilience

    Community resilience is the ability of a community to withstand and to recover from adversity in the event of a disaster.

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    October 4, 2024

    Wildfires and Household Recovery

    How can public health work with land management agencies after a wildfire to foster community recovery? CPHD studied household recovery in the five towns surrounding Arizona’s Wallow Fire.

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    October 4, 2024

    Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA)

    How do wireless emergency alerts (WEA) evoke emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and physiolgical responses in an indvidual? Why is this important?

Our Mission

The Center for Public Health and Disasters promotes efforts to improve community resilience and to reduce the health impacts of disasters and global climate change.

Established in 1997, the center is based in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Center faculty and staff have diverse backgrounds in:

  • Community Health
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Health
  • Epidemiology 
  • Health and Risk Communications
  • Health Services Research
  • Infectious Disease
  • Informatics
  • Internal Medicine
  • International Health
  • Psychiatry
  • Social Psychology

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Have questions, comments or want to reach out to CPHD? Email us at cphd@ph.ucla.edu