The UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2020 Community Grants Program We are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2020 Community Grants Program. This year, we received an unprecedented 101 applications for funding. Due to the generous […]
Our Center would like to welcome our newest member affiliate, Dr. Kim Reynolds! Kim Reynolds, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Community and Global Health at Claremont Graduate University and is a member of the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has also held leadership roles within the university, including Interim Dean […]
The UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, in collaboration with the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and Dra. Monica Salinas, invite proposal submissions for our 2019 Equity Center Community Seed Grant. At least twelve grants of $5,000 are available to support local community based organizations in their work to improve health in vulnerable, local population […]
Source: UCLA Newsroom Date: August, 27, 2018 A team of researchers at UCLA was recently awarded a $2.8 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development to test an obesity prevention program in about 60 preschools in Los Angeles. Many young children spend a significant portion of their day in […]
Source: UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Date: Thursday, November 30, 2017 CLA researcher Dr. Roshan Bastani will lead a $6.6 million research study awarded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to investigate the comparative effectiveness of strategies designed to increase receipt of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among adolescents. By advancing the understanding of which […]
The UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity is pleased to announce our 2018 Community Seed Grants! We are pleased to announce the 16 organizations that were selected for funding as one of our 2018 Community Seed Grantees. These outstanding projects were selected from a pool of over 80 high quality applications. Through the generous support […]
Felicia Hodge, DrPH, is a Professor in the School of Nursing and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. Dr. Hodge conducts research on chronic health conditions and behaviors in American Indian and Alaska Native populations. The Navajo Hopi Health Foundation, a cancer nonprofit organization in Arizona, has featured Dr. Hodge’s […]