The following are other useful web sites that you may wish to visit:

MRRC

The Mental Retardation Research Center operates with the general aims of acquiring new knowledge on mental retardation and related aspects of human development and the training of research personnel.

UCLA Center for Culture and Health

The Center for Culture and Health is designed to contribute to the Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) by carrying out major research undertakings and interdisciplinary projects difficult to initiate and support across departments.  Faculty and staff in the Center come from backgrounds in Anthropology, Education, Applied Linguistics, and Psychology and who work collaboratively and stimulate collaborative work in the broader campus.

NPIStat

The NPI Biostatistics Core (NPIStat) is a team of expert and experienced biostatisticians and methodologists and research support staff. NPIStat's mission is to foster departmental research productivity and quality by helping faculty plan and design research projects, apply for and obtain independent funding, and analyze and report their data.  Services covered by funding from the Department of Psychiatry include assistance with grant development, and most services to unfunded faculty and students. The Core also sponsors educational activities in statistics and research methods.  Annual service contracts for limited or full biostatistical consulting & data support are available to established, extramurally funded research projects.

UCLA Program for Psychocultural Studies and Medical Anthropology

The UCLA Program for Psychocultural Studies and Medical Anthropology is an interdisciplinary graduate program offered jointly by the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Social Psychiatry, and the Department of Anthropology. It includes specialists in cultural, linguistic, medical and psychological anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, ethology, public health and transcultural psychiatry. Within Medical Anthropology, reproduction and women's health is a particularly strong field for research training. The program brings the best methods, theories and data from the cross-cultural record to bear on anthropological and medical problems.

Qualitative Tools for Multimethod Research (Literature Guide)

A resource developed by members of the Division of Social Psychiatry at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) toward the development and use of methods which combine both quantitative and qualitative aspects.

Boster's Best

Straightforward and concise presentation focussing on the use of proximity data--data that can be useful in the initial understanding of cognition regarding categorization, propositional knowledge, decision making, and theory construction involving socio-cultural concepts.