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More online resources needed for Californians with disabilities requiring help making critical decisions

UCLA analysis calls for providing supported decision-making materials tailored for more languages, cultures, employment sectors, and disability types

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Community organizations awarded $200,000 to implement UCLA students’ health equity projects

Four proposals each receive $50,000 to support Black male trauma recovery, foster youth resilience, autism-friendly emergency departments, and accessible playgrounds

The 2025 UCLA Health Equity Challenge finalists

Ask the Expert

Ask the Expert: Calvin Chang on what community-engaged research means for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

The director of the Native Hawaiian and Pacific islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab explains how good intentions haven’t always produced good collaborations

Calvin Chang Ask the Expert

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New UCLA policy paper outlines evidence-based strategies to help address homelessness

In early 2020, more than 160,000 people experienced homelessness on any given day, representing a 40% increase since 2015. A new UCLA Center for Health Policy Research policy paper outlines evidence-based strategies to help address homelessness.

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⁠Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Data Policy Lab Featured on PBS NewsHour

⁠The Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Data Policy Lab, housed at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was featured on PBS NewsHour. The NHPI Data Policy Lab was created to address gaps in national COVID-19 data reporting and research in overlooked Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities.

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UCLA team finds Medi-Cal patients experienced improvements through Health Homes Progam

UCLA team finds Medi-Cal patients with experienced improvements through Health Homes Progam: Findings show decreased use of emergency department visits and hospitalizations, an initial increase in outpatient services, and slower growth in estimated Medi-Cal payments compared to a control group for HHP enrollees in the first year of enrollment.

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UCLA FSPH team receives state grant for COVID-19 Research

A team led by UCLA CHPR Director Ninez Ponce and Senior Fellow Vickie Mays has received a state grant for COVID-19 data research in Los Angeles County

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February 28, 2022

UCLA study spotlights gaps in health care access among California’s LGBT community

UCLA study spotlights gaps in health care access among California’s LGBT community: Difficulty finding providers, getting timely care particularly acute among bisexual women, transgender adults.

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February 23, 2022

UCLA CHPR names Dr. Mays senior fellow and Dr. Eisenberg director of mental health program

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has announced two new faculty appointments: Vickie M. Mays, PhD, MSPH has been named a senior fellow at UCLA CHPR and Daniel Eisenberg, PhD, has been named director of UCLA CHPR’s fast-growing mental health program.

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January 31, 2022

UCLA researchers find coverage and health care access disparities continue to persist

UCLA researchers find coverage and health care access disparities continue to persist: Black and Latinx Californians had the lowest rates of employer-based insurance across all groups, especially among women.

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January 18, 2022

UCLA researchers evaluate the impact of pandemic on Medi-Cal’s Whole Person Care Program

UCLA researchers evaluate the impact of pandemic on Medi-Cal’s Whole Person Care Program: Study finds fewer emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and more outpatient telehealth visits in 2020.

Grad Competition

January 13, 2022

New UCLA graduate student competition invites ideas to improve health equity in California

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research is leading the Health Equity Challenge, in collaboration with The MolinaCares Accord.

Trust in government and healthcare workers decreases, influencing attitudes on vaccines

January 11, 2022

Trust in government and healthcare workers decreases, influencing attitudes on vaccines

Trusting health advice from governments and health workers and feeling positively about vaccines are strongly associated with trust in institutions, according to a peer-reviewed study from UCLA researchers published in the August edition of the journal Health Affairs