Michael Prelip, MPH, DPA, CHES, CPH

Dr. Mike Prelip is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health. He supervises the field component of its Master of Public Health (MPH) program and teaches courses in community-based program planning, research, and evaluation; fund development; community organization; and leadership and empowerment. He is currently involved in a number of community-based research projects that use the community participatory model, and conducts his work in both domestic and international settings. Dr. Prelip recently finished a project with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to develop a process to improve the school and community environment to be more "nutrition friendly." He is the lead evaluator for LAUSD's nutrition education programs and develops evaluation methods to assess impact of school-based nutrition education programs. Dr. Prelip recently started an NIH-funded project with Health Net of California to improve health literacy of adolescents, and two CDC-funded research projects examining collaborations between local health departments, schools, and community- and faith-based organizations for disaster readiness. He is the faculty advisor for the UCLA Mobile Clinic Project, which provides primary health care to homeless and at-risk for homeless individuals.