CHIS plays role in new UC collaboration that will focus on immigration in California

The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), which is conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health and the California Department of Health Care Services, will be part of a research collaboration between five UC campuses that will help policymakers, non-governmental organizations and the public better understand and plan for immigrants, their integration into the state, and their impact on the educational system, workforce, public health, political environment, culture and more.

To better understand these issues and the immigrant experience overall, the project will collect new data and assess current policy practices. The collaboration with CHIS, a survey of 50,000 respondents which is administered in seven languages, will include new questions that focus on the integration of diverse groups over multiple immigrant generations.

The campuses involved in the project are UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside and UC San Diego.

Read the complete UC press release here.

About the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) is one of the nation’s leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health policy information for California. UCLA CHPR improves the public’s health through high quality, objective, and evidence-based research and data that informs effective policymaking. UCLA CHPR is the home of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and is part of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. For more information, visit healthpolicy.ucla.edu.