Paul J. Chung

Biography

Paul Chung is an associate professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, an associate professor of health services at the UCLA School of Public Health, a senior natural scientist at RAND, and a faculty affiliate at the California Center for Population Research. He is also the director of the UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion (a CDC Prevention Research Center) and an associate director of both the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA and the NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship at UCLA.

In 2009, Chung was the recipient of the Nemours Child Health Services Research Award, given annually to a single emerging child health services researcher in the United States. His personal research interests include family leave policy for vulnerable families, well-child care quality and redesign, adolescent health risks, child development and education, and childhood obesity, and he has received grants from funders including CDC, NIH, and Pfizer. He serves on national committees for organizations including the Academic Pediatric Association, the Academy Health Child Health Services Research Interest Group, and the CDC Prevention Research Centers. The UCLA/RAND Center's portfolio is large and eclectic, focusing broadly on policy-relevant prevention research addressing the needs of children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. The UCLA/RAND Center is also committed to community-based participatory research with public and private community partners in the South Bay region of Los Angeles and other areas of Los Angeles County.