Neal Halfon MD, MPH

Dr. Neal Halfon, MD, MPH is the founding director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, and also directs the Child and Family Health Leadership and Training Program in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Halfon is a professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; and public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Dr. Halfon earned his medical degree from the University of California, Davis and his master's in public health at Berkeley. He completed his pediatric residency at UC San Diego and UC San Francisco. Dr. Halfon was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of California, San Francisco.