UCLA Semel Institute Health Services Research Center
The UCLA-Semel Institute is organized into centers that promote development of research in programmatic areas that cross divisions and departments. One of these is the Health Services Research Center (HSRC), directed by Drs. Kenneth Wells , Jeanne Miranda (health disparities and vulnerable populations), and Bonnie Zima (child services). HSRC is multidisciplinary and spans divisions and departments within the Semel Institute, as well as other UCLA Schools and Programs, the VA, and RAND. HSRC features a core NIMH-funded mental health services research center, health services research training programs, multiple individual projects, and co-hosts the Neuroscience History Archives. The Center has been particularly active in developing new programs and research on depression, schizophrenia, community violence, and attention deficit disorder, as well as on the broader problem of behavioral health disparities. The HSRC seeks to improve health policy formulation, health care delivery, and quality of life for persons with psychiatric disorders by integrating a core clinical approach with policy perspectives on changes in legislations, markets, financing, and organization of healthcare delivery systems. A recent emphasis for Center work is on partnered, participatory research and program development, in which community members and agency representatives are full co-leads in all stages of research development, implementation, and dissemination. The Center hopes to use this approach to provide leadership for science that serves, for science-informed services, and for community-academic partnerships that can create change to benefit mental health of communities.
For more information about HSRC go to www.hsrcenter.ucla.edu
Representatives on CPIC from UCLA: Jeanne Miranda, Susan Stockdale, Tom Belin, Lingqi Tang, Michael Ong & Esmeralda Ramos