| Deborah C. Glik , ScD
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| Professor, Community Health Sciences |
Work Phone Number: 310-206-9548
Work Email Address: dglik@ucla.edu
Education: B.A., Barnard College, New York, NY.
Education: Sc.D., Behavioral Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Academic Experience: 1984-1991: School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Academic Experience: 1991- present : School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Deborah C. Glik, Sc.D. FAAHB is a Full Professor at the UCLA School of Public Health. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, served in the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa, and completed her doctorate in behavioral sciences and public health at Johns Hopkins University in 1985. She taught at the University of South Carolina before joining UCLA in 1991. She is Director of the UCLA Health and Media Research Group (HMRG) specializing in the assessment and evaluation of educational, community based, and media projects. She has over 30 years of experience in conducting research on health behavior change, health communications, formative research, and program evaluation in a variety of settings and she continues to conduct research and teach in both domestic and international arenas.
Dr. Glik is skilled in both
quantitative and qualitative research designs and
program evaluation methods. Substantive areas include
evaluation and promotion of media and social marketing
interventions, disaster preparedness, immunization
programs, infectious disease control, injury control,
and adolescent preventive care. She has created
curricula for youth audiences, health and media
literacy, multimedia, social media, risk communication
and entertainment education projects. As well she has
conducted research on the effectiveness of bioterrorism
and emergency response system measures for local state
and federal agencies, and is currently working on a
national study to assess public health integration with
community based organizations for disaster preparedness.
She is also working at present with a number of media
advocacy groups in Los Angeles who influence
entertainment media production. Current funded research
includes a project to influence adolescent health
behavior using social media websites both in California
and in French West Africa. The author of over 75
peer reviewed publications and chapters on the subject
of health behavior, health communications, and program
evaluation, in 2009 she became a Fellow of the
American Academy of Health Behavior. She is active
in the American Public Health Association, serves on
numerous study sections and advisory boards for NIH and
CDC, and reviews for over a dozen academic journals. At
present she is also the Chair of the Faculty Executive
Committee for the UCLA School of Public Health.
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