About the Program

Mission

The mission of the Program in Pharmacoepidemiology at UCLA is to advance the understanding of treatments in clinical practice to inform medical prescribing and improve patient care.

What We Do & Who We Are

We study utilization, safety, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of treatment strategies among patients in clinical practice across a wide range of therapeutic areas, through the use of cutting-edge epidemiologic and statistical methods, leveraging one of the nation’s largest data repository of longitudinal healthcare data to conduct pharmacoepidemiologic research, including claims data for over 200 million lives, registries, and electronic health records, and innovative linkage of different databases. ​The program includes a multidisciplinary team with expertise in pharmacoepidemiology, biostatistics, and various clinical disciplines, including endocrinology, nephrology, cardiology, obesity medicine, mental health, and trains the next generation of researchers in pharmacoepidemiology from around the world.

Fellowship Opportunities

Explore a post-doctoral fellowship position with our program