Center for Healthcare Management Established At UCLA

WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES -- The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has launched a new center that aims to bring together top academic researchers, students and healthcare executives and practitioners to explore critical issues in the management of health care organizations.

University leaders say that the School of Public Health’s Center for Healthcare Management will draw from the expertise of industry leaders to shape research questions designed to influence healthcare management practices, which is central to its mission and success, explained the center’s director, Laura Erskine.

“Engaging healthcare organizations as active collaborators with Fielding School faculty will ensure that our center produces practical, relevant knowledge,” Erskine said.

She also noted that multidisciplinary UCLA experts from outside the Fielding School will also participate — including medical, nursing, dentistry, engineering, and business school faculty.

The center will host the Paul Torrens Health Forum at UCLA, an established monthly gathering where practitioners and academics discuss timely public health issues affecting the entire health industry. Other planned activities include an annual healthcare management case competition, a collection of field-based case studies created for classroom discussion, and the dissemination of UCLA-generated scholarship to the practitioner community.