Box 951772, Room 61-254 CHS

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772

Phone: 310-206-1898

Fax: 310-825-3868

nhalfon@ucla.edu

Neal Halfon is Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Professor of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles and is a consultant in the Health Program at RAND. Dr. Halfon is currently Director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities and directs the Child and Family Health Program in the School of Public Health at UCLA. Dr. Halfon also directs the federally funded Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s National Center for Infancy and Early Childhood Health Policy Research. Dr. Halfon’s primary research interests include the provision of developmental service to young children, access to care for poor children, and delivery of health services to children with special health care needs, with particular interest in children who have been abused and neglected and are being cared for by the foster care system. He has published investigations of immunizations for inner-city children, the health care needs to children in foster care, trends in chronic illnesses for children, the delivery of health care services for children with asthma, as well as investigations of new models of health service delivery for high-risk children.

Dr. Halfon was recently a co-chair of the Association for Health Services Research, research agenda setting conference, Improving the Quality of Health Care for Children. He serves on the Pediatric Measurement Advisory Panel for the National Committee on quality Assurance (NCQA) and the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT). Dr. Halfon is also a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Child Health Financing and the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) Council on Health and Finance.

Dr. Halfon has served on expert panels for the National Commission on Children, the Maternal and Child Health Bureaus Bright Futures Project, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Panel on Child Health Services Research, the Bureau of Health Professional Panel on Primary Care, and the Carnegie Commission on Early Childhood. Dr. Halfon received a MD from the University of California, Davis, and a MPH from the University of California, San Diego and the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Halfon was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford.