Center in the News
Jul 23, 2025
Life Technology
This piece focuses on a recent study conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that used pooled data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to reveal alarming rates of psychological distress among American Indian and Alaska Native adults in California. Also picked up in Medical Xpress and Mirage News.
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Feb 18, 2025
Capital & Main
This story cites 2019 California Health Interview Survey data about differences between girls' and boys' experiences with serious psychological distress.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Nov 15, 2024
LAist
According to a study published last year by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the percentage of immigrant adults in California with “serious psychological distress” increased by 50% between 2015 and 2021. The study defines serious psychological distress as severe, diagnosable mental health conditions, like depression and anxiety.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Jun 26, 2024
CalMatters
Imelda Padilla-Frausto, research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, shares how the long delays in receiving payments for treating patients with workers' compensation claims for mental health care treatment have pushed some doctors to no longer accept such patients.
Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
May 20, 2024
VoyageLA
In this Q&A, Imelda Padilla-Frausto shares her "non-traditional" journey from studying engineering and computer science at community college in central New Mexico to research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Apr 25, 2024
California Healthline
Nearly half of California youths from the ages of 12 to 17 report having recently struggled with mental health issues, with nearly a third experiencing serious psychological distress, according to a 2021 study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Also published on KFF Health News.
Mental Health Program, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Mar 21, 2024
Los Angeles Times
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's Kathryn Kietzman and Imelda Padilla-Frausto are cited in this article about hunger among older adults.
Elder Index, Food Insecurity
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto,
Kathryn G. Kietzman
Jul 17, 2023
JBHE
A new study from the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of California, Los Angeles finds that adults who identify as Black and at least one other race are more likely to need mental health services than those who identify only as Black.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Jun 28, 2023
UCLA Newsroom
California adults who identify as Black and at least one other race or more likely to need mental health services than those who identify as Black, according to a study published today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
May 18, 2023
Telemundo 52
Dr. Imelda Padilla with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research says social media impacts young LGBTQ+ people, making them more vulnerable to risk factors of suicide ideation.
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto