The last several years have seen major transformations in global public health, requiring major expansion and reconstruction of the international public health work force. Many emerging health problems require timely and sustained research efforts and require application of the best scientific knowledge and focused training and continuing education for the global public health work force. The UCLA
Center for Global and Immigrant Health was established in 2008. The Center includes faculty from all of the departments in the Fielding School of Public Health as well as the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing and the California Center for Population Research, all of whom have research or teaching interests in global and/or immigrant health. Participating faculty have active research collaborations in more than 50 countries throughout the world, and several work both with immigrant communities in California and in the countries of origin of these communities. The Center offers a regular seminar series and a Certificate in Global Health available to students in any of UCLA's degree granting graduate and professional programs. Our students learn from faculty representing all of the departments in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health as well as the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing and the California Center for Population Research, all of whom have research or teaching interests in global health. Best of all, they get hands on experience in one of the most diverse city in the country.
