Associate Center Director Steven P. Wallace, Center Research Scientist Kathryn Kietzman, faculty associates, and a cast of statisticians and graduate student researchers will present more than 40 lectures, roundtables and poster sessions at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in the Windy City October 31-November 4.
Health topics presented by Center associates will include:
• Racial and ethnic disparities in health care access, health care use, and health outcomes (multiple presentations)
• Obesity and weight issues among preschoolers in Los Angeles
• The effect of federal immigration policy on the nation's undocumented immigrants
• Adolescent behavior and exposure to crime
• Alzheimer's Disease and caregiver burden
• "Young invincibles" and health care spending
• Pediatric palliative care; end-of-life care
• Research on minority aging from RCMAR
• Making meaningful community health data available
• And many more!
Need Center publications? Find us at Booth #848
Come visit Community Relations Manager and RCMAR Program Administrator Porsche McGinnis and other staff at Booth #848 and pick up Center publications, fact sheets and more.
See a complete list of Center presentations 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.