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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.
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We are proud to have helped plan this workshop with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The report can be downloaded here
A UCLA and Center for The Public Health and Disasters Alumnus, Rachel Adams PhD, recently joined the CONVERGE team at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, as a...
We are very sad to announce that Linda Bourque, a dear colleague, mentor and friend of the public health and disaster community, passed away on March 20, 2019, after a brief illness. Linda was...