Thomas Rice
Center Coordinator, National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy

As program manager for the National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy, Thomas Rice coordinates the National Center’s strategic policy assistance for grantees of the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Initiative.  This support includes a report series that addresses framing, systems-building, and issues related to the core components of the initiative.  Future National Center activities will include direct involvement with SECCS grantees on collaborative learning projects, and helping to foster supportive state policy, fiscal, and leadership contexts for early childhood systems building. 

 While with First 5 Los Angeles, Mr. Rice led the initial phases of a $100 million, state and county collaborative grant initiative to establish local platforms for integrated child and family service delivery covering the multiple service sectors relating to school readiness.  Mr. Rice conducted public health data and geographic information systems analysis for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and Chief Administrative Office.  He served in the United States Peace Corps as a community development/education volunteer in the Dominican Republic, and has a master's degree in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles with a focus on social policy and analysis.

Contact Information:

Thomas Rice
UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 850
Los Angeles, CA 90095-6939
Phone (310) 794-0907
FAX (310)794-2728
thomasrice@mednet.ucla.edu

 

Projects:

National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy