Dr. Bourque teaches courses in research methodology with particular emphasis on the design, administration, data processing and analysis of data collected by questionnaires and interviews in community surveys. She is the Associate Director of the Center for Public Health and Disasters, and the Associate Director of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, both located in the UCLA School of Public Health. Dr. Bourque is on the Editorial Boards for the Sage University Papers (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) and the Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Sage Publications, Incorporated. She is an author on four books and more than seventy-five articles in the medical, public health and social science literature. Her research focuses on community response to disasters, primarily funded by the National Science Foundation, and on clinical trials of refractive surgeries in ophthalmology.