The UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion was founded in 1998 as a Prevention Research Center by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (visit PRC). Our Center's mission is to conduct studies, develop programs, and provide education related to adolescent health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention, with a special emphasis on projects that involve parents of adolescents.
Our major research areas are: parent-adolescent communication; physical activity, nutrition, and obesity; sexual health and risk reduction; work-family conflict; substance use; health care for children and adolescents; and quality of health care. The Center is a unique partnership of the UCLA School of Public Health, the UCLA Department of Pediatrics, the RAND Corporation (a non-partisan, private, non-profit research institute that conducts research to improve public policy), and local communities. The Center's multi-disciplinary faculty and staff represent the fields of public health, medicine, social and clinical psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, education, sampling, statistics, and survey design.
The Center conducts community-based participatory research jointly with its diverse community partners including a center-wide community advisory board (CAB), project specific CABs, a youth CAB, the Los Angeles Unified School District, LA County Department of Health Services, and other local groups that serve LA youth and their families. Primary funding sources have included the CDC, the National Institutes of Health, the University-wide AIDS Research Program, and foundations. The Center Director is Paul Chung, MD, MS. For more information, contact Cindy Hannon, MSW, the Center's Managing Director, at 310-794-3000 or write us at adolescent@rand.org.
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