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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

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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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Headshot of Ying-Ying Meng, director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
In Memoriam
April 16, 2024

In memoriam: Dr. Ying-Ying Meng, 68, scholar of environmental health

Meng’s work over more than two decades contributed to making UCLA CHPR a ‘vital resource for researchers, policymakers, and journalists’

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In Memoriam
April 05, 2021

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research mourns the loss of our beloved Associate Center Director Steven P. Wallace, PhD

Dr. Wallace served as associate director since 1996 and was essential to building the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) into the successful policy research center it has been for more than two decades

The Center mourns the passing of Faculty Associate Antronette (Toni) Yancey
In Memoriam
April 25, 2013

The Center mourns the passing of Faculty Associate Antronette (Toni) Yancey

​It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Antronette (Toni) Yancey, a Center faculty associate and professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Toni was a remarkable woman who promoted healthy living and developed a signature physical activity program known as Instant Recess.

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In Memoriam
April 24, 2012

Obituary: Dr. E. Richard Brown, a leading proponent of health care reform and wide dissemination of public health data

​​​E. Richard (Rick) Brown, a nationally recognized public health leader who advocated for health care reform and pioneered the collection and broad dissemination of health survey data to influence policy, died Friday, April 20. He was 70.