Medicine-Pediatrics

Program Overview

Overview

The Child & Family Health Training program is dedicated to masters and doctoral students with an MCH focus and encourages exploration and development of skills to address a variety of issues related to service delivery for this population via the MCH Certificate program. The MCH Certificate prepares students to be leaders in MCH Workforce by providing the knowledge and skills in MCH and leadership training; field practicum experience in MCH; mentoring by MCH CoE faculty; and networking opportunities with other like-minded students with similar interests in MCH.

In addition to the MCH Certificate program, the MCH CoE also fosters public health research for doctoral students through the MCH Epidemiology Fellowship Program. Scholarships are awarded to select students who receive access to public health data sources and mentorship on their individual research ideas. They are introduced to public health experts and are exposed to career options in the field. They have the unique opportunity to teach preventive medicine physicians at UCLA advanced concepts in data science and thus develop interdisciplinary partnerships during their Fellowship.

Features of MCH Training

The Child and Family Health Training program is generally a 2-3 year program.

In addition to the 16 required units, Trainees will:

  • Participate in the UCLA MCH Student Interest Group with leadership opportunities
  • Meet quarterly with MCH faculty
  • Complete a summer field placement position with an MCH focus
  • Have the opportunity to work with LA County Dept of Public Health (Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology)
  • Present at the annual MCH Symposium
  • Have the opportunity to mentor MCH undergrads in the Pathways for Students into Health Professions program or provide a leadership talk
  • Be part of a national network of MCH trainees
  • Receive program support to attend MCH-related conference

Features of the Epidemiology Fellowship

The Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Fellowship is generally a 2-year fellowship with the opportunity for fellows to continue working on other research opportunities with the team if interested.  The fellowship is funded for one-year with mentorship available for longer as needed. 

MCH Epidemiology Applications are only open to doctoral students at UCLA. 

In addition to the 16 units required, Epidemiology Fellows will: 

  • Will deliver a scholarly product (e.g. manuscript) by the end of two years using a public health or related data sets.
  • Participate in the UCLA MCH student interest groups and will lead a journal club held quarterly 
  • Meet monthly with MCH Epidemiology Program Director  
  • Have the opportunity to work with data sets from the LA County Dept of Public Health (Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology) Department of Public Health (lacounty.gov) 
  • Present at the annual MCH Symposium 
  • Have the opportunity to mentor MCH undergraduates in the Pathways for Students into Health Professions program or provide a leadership talk  
  • Be part of a national network of MCH Trainees 
  • Receive program support to attend MCH-related conferences