Workforce Development Program (WDP)
The Workforce Development Program (WDP) proposes innovative and comprehensive preparation for all who participate in translational science. Programs in the WDP provide education and training along a continuum that begins with high school programs and extends beyond undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral training to include seminars and career development for all faculty and staff. At all points along the continuum, integration of best practices for recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce will be coordinated with the CTSI Senior Associate Director for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. The goal of the WDP is to coordinate the resources of the CTSI to address specific educational needs, without duplicating any curricula offered at UCLA or any of the partner institutions.
Programs
Related Programs and Resources
Additional training programs and resources are available from our partner institutions. For your convenience, we have collected them in one location.
K and R Workshop resources:
Samples of successful grant applications:
Funding opportunities:
Additional research trainings:
Program Aims
Enable a diverse translational science workforce with the knowledge and skills requisite for translation of discoveries.
- Objective 1. Collaborate with the UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) and NIH Diversity Program, Coordination and Evaluation Center (CEC) to prepare diverse faculty, staff and trainees from all partner institutions involved in clinical research to conduct investigations in compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
- Objective 2. Equip our scientific workforce with informatics-based skills, including cohort discovery and computational methods, to support learning health systems throughout the CTSI institutions.
- Objective 3. Promote the translational impact of CTSI biomedical faculty, postdoctoral and graduate students through a focused, cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship training program.
Contact Us
For WDP questions, please contact the below personnel.
Online Grant Library, General questions, KL2 and TL1 programs, and Grant Workshops
CTSIWD@mednet.ucla.edu
Training Program in Translational Science (Masters and Certificate programs)
Doug Smoot
dsmoot@mednet.ucla.edu
Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
Jennifer McCaney
biodesign@mednet.ucla.edu
Bioinformatics and Data Science
Marianne Zachariah
mzachariah@mednet.ucla.edu
Good Clinical Practices (by campus):
Cedars-Sinai
Lydia Rosenbaum
lydia.rosenbaum@cshs.org
Charles R. Drew University
Shahrzad Bazargan, Ph.D.
shahrzadb@ucla.edu
Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA
Loritta Manai, R.N., B.S.N.
lmanai@lundquist.org
WDP Leadership
WDP Investigators & Staff
