Center in the News List
Sep 15, 2025
In advance of a local hearing, community leaders urged residents to share their experiences with acts of hate. According to the California Health Interview Survey, 2.6 million Californians age 12 and older experienced hate acts from 2022 to 2023.
Sep 12, 2025
Professors Kimberly Paul and Michael Jerrett, of the UCLA Aliso Canyon Disaster Health Research Study, were quoted in this online and radio story about the research team's investigation of birth records. KNBC-TV (Ch. 4 Los Angeles) also covered the story.
Sep 04, 2025
Naomi Zewde, fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and assistant professor of health policy and management, shared important reasons why even young adults should have health insurance and what could happen to them financially if they do not.
Aug 27, 2025
Nadereh Pourat, associate center director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered expertise on how federal Medicaid work requirements will likely lead to people losing their health coverage.
Aug 22, 2025
Imelda Padilla-Frausto, research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, discussed how a projected 2.7% cost-of-living adjustment to social security could leave many recipients with less buying power.
Aug 22, 2025
Kekoa Taparra, who is part of the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Data Policy Lab at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, co-authored a study published in Frontiers in Climate that analyzed deaths during the August 2023 wildfires on Maui.
Aug 20, 2025
Naomi Zewde, fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, explained how verifying Medicaid eligibility is difficult and the role that plays in disaster response.
Aug 17, 2025
Gerald F. Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided expert context to explain how some Americans who have health insurance still end up facing medical debt and thus may move to another with more affordable health care.
Aug 13, 2025
Ninez A. Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is mentioned in this profile of Fabiola Perez-Lua, a recipient of a UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program award.
Jul 30, 2025
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research affiliate Ashvin Gandhi co-authored a study shows how the cost-saving measure of soft spending caps in Medicare disproportionately affected affect racialized minorities and low-income people the most.