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May 14, 2025

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.
May 14, 2025

Community Resilience

Community resilience is the ability of a community to withstand and to recover from adversity in the event of a disaster.
May 14, 2025

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.
May 14, 2025

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

News & Highlights

NESSI Director weighs in on federal commission's potential impact

Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA)

Community Resilience

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