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August 26, 2018

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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August 27, 2018

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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August 21, 2018

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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August 27, 2018

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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