University of California at Los Angeles
UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion

Comprehensive Center

First funded: 1998

Center’s Web site

Core Research Focus

Helping parents promote the health and well-being of their children

 

Core Research Projects

Current (2010-2014)
Project description to be posted.

Past (1998-2009)
Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: Evaluation Study
Worksite Program Helps Parents Promote Sexual Health Among Their Adolescents

 

Special Interest Projects (SIPs) by Focus Area

Cancer
SIP# 16-2004	Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network
SIP# 24-2004	Analyzing Records of Ovarian Cancer Surgery Performed in Eight States

Healthy Youth
SIP# 27-1999	Individual, Family, and Societal Factors that Influence Adolescent Health
SIP# 03-2004	Studying the Health Development of Adolescents (Healthy Passages)

Nutrition & Physical Activity for Youths
SIP# 08-2007	Exploring Factors That Influence Children’s Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages at Home

Obesity and Overweight
SIP# 08-2007	Exploring Factors That Influence Children’s Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages at Home

Oral Health
SIP# 02-2001	Oral Health Network Supports Oral Health Research

 

Contact Information

Center
UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion
1072 Gayley Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-3402

Principal Investigator/Director
Robert Kaplan, PhD
Phone: (310) 825-7652
E-mail: rmkaplan@ucla.edu

Managing Director
Cindy Hannon, MSW
Phone: (310) 794-3570
E-mail: channon@mednet.ucla.edu