Janet C. Frank

Janet C. Frank, DrPH, MS, is an affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an adjunct associate faculty in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

From 1990 to 2013, Frank served as assistant director of academic programs in the UCLA Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where she led projects in geriatric workforce development. This included projects for the California Geriatric Education Center and the National Coordinating Center for the Research Centers for Minority Aging Research.

In 2013, Frank retired from her full-time role in geriatric medicine and joined the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research on a part-time basis. In her role as affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, she participated in a systematic review of clinical preventive services for older adults, and the Healthy Aging Prevention Partnership Initiative. She also directed the California Mental Health and Older Adult System of Care study and a related project on the behavioral health workforce. Previous work through the Center also involved serving as a special assistant to the director of the National Coordinating and Evaluation Center for the NIH Diversity Education Consortium. Frank continues her health policy efforts as a California Commissioner of Aging with a specialization in behavioral health and older adults and geriatric workforce development.

Frank received her master's degree in gerontology from the University of Southern California and her doctorate in public health from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.