Visiting Scholars

Specifications for Visiting Scholars

The UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters (CPHD) offers scholars from other institutions the opportunity to spend from one to three academic quarters studying and working with Center faculty. The purpose of the visiting scholars program is to encourage qualified disaster and public health professionals to broaden their academic, research, and practical knowledge base. Visiting scholars may enroll in courses offered by the Center (and other relevant SPH courses with instructor's consent) and visit with agencies actively involved in public health preparedness and response in the Los Angeles area. They may also consult with our research faculty on limited short-term research projects of interest to their home institutions.

Requirements for interested applicants include:

1. PhD or equivalent in relevant field
2. Fluency in spoken and written English
3. Letter of support from sending agencies
4. Personal statement of objectives for the study period
1. Courses
2. Research
3. Field observation activities

Relevant Courses

CPHD Courses

• CHS 254 Intentional Disasters: Complex Emergencies and Forced Migration
• CHS 256 Interdisciplinary Response to Infectious Disease Emergencies
• CHS 257 Program Planning in Community Disaster Preparedness
• CHS 258 Cooperative Interagency Management in Disasters
• CHS 295 Selected Topic in Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Assistance
• CHS 440 Public Health and National Security at the U.S.-Mexico Border
• CHS 451 Post-Disaster Community Health
• CHS 484 Risk Communications

SPH Courses (need instructor's approval)

• CHS 233    Hunger and Food Insecurity
• CHS M236  Human Resources and Economic Development
• CHS 441    Advanced Program Planning and Evaluation in International Health
• CHS 443    Assessment of Family Nutrition
• CHS 444    Anthropometric and Dietary Aspects of Nutritional Assessment (pre-req 443)
• EPI 220     Principles of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• EPI 251     Epidemiology of Nonintentional Injuries
• EPI 412     Public Health Surveillance
• EPI 418     Epidemiologic Surveys in Developing Countries (pre-req EPI 100/200 and BIO 100A)

Field Observations at Collaborating Agencies

• Los Angeles County Department of Health Services:
• Injury and Violence Prevention Program
• Acute Communicable Disease Control
• Emergency Medical Services Agency
• Emergency Coordinator (Public Health)
• Los Angeles County Emergency Management (Emergency Operations Center)
• Los Angeles City Emergency Management Department
• Los Angeles Chapter of the American Red Cross
• Long Beach City Health Department
• Pasadena City Health Department
• City of West Hollywood Emergency Preparedness Office
• Santa Barbara County Public Health Department
• Caltech Seismology Laboratory/USGS
• LA City Fire Department (Ride with Paramedic)
• California Department of Health Services and the Office of Emergency Services (Sacramento)
• Kaiser Permanente Emergency Coordinator
• UCLA Campus Environmental Health Unit
• UCLA Medical Center Safety Officer

We invite interested scholars to correspond with us at our Center e-mail: cphdr@ucla.edu. Please be sure to include your responses to items 1-4 under "Requirements for Interested Applicants".