Center in the News
Jun 25, 2024
Flip the Media
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's Feb. 2023 symposium on “Addressing Gun Violence as a Public Health Epidemic” was cited in a report on the U.S. surgeon general declaring gun violence a public health crisis by the University of Washington's student-run Communication Leadership Program online publication.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), E.R. Brown Symposium
Jun 24, 2024
Vegworld Magazine
This initiative addresses a critical public health issue: more than 3 in 10 teens in LA are overweight or obese, with Latino children and teens having the highest overweight and obesity rates of any ethnic group. Almost half of 10 to 17-year-old Latinos in L.A. Counties are overweight or obese, according to the California Health Interview Survey.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Jun 21, 2024
Medical Xpress
Ninez A. Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, participated in a discussion about the recently announced revisions to federal guidelines for collecting race and ethnicity data.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab, Data Equity Center
Ninez A. Ponce
Jun 11, 2024
Claycord Newstalk 925
Contra Costa County has launched a free online tool that gives the public easy access to a wide array of county health data. The health atlas uses data from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's California Health Interview Survey.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
May 30, 2024
Crosscurrents (public radio show)
Crosscurrents host Hana Baba and Helen H. Hsu, bi-cultural, bi-lingual clinical psychologist founder of Hella Mental Health and outreach director at Stanford University, discussed a UCLA CHPR report about the importance of culturally competent mental health for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), AAPI Data Project
Ninez A. Ponce
May 24, 2024
Daily Mail
Despite the positive attachment to sex, a 2021 UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study found that 38 percent of young people between the ages of 18 and 30 reported they hadn't had any sexual partners in the previous year.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Ninez A. Ponce
May 23, 2024
UCLA Newsroom
Two articles about the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research were included in a curated selection of stories spotlighting Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander voices, histories and research.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), AAPI Data Project
Ninez A. Ponce
May 22, 2024
The Epoch Times
Telehealth use surged in California during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in October 2023. In 2022, 46.7 percent of California adults had used telehealth in the preceding year, a dramatic increase from the 12.4 percent figure in 2018.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Sean Tan
May 15, 2024
Medical Xpress
Nearly 40% of adults who had four or more adverse childhood experiences reported an unmet need for treatment.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Sean Tan
May 13, 2024
Q Voice News
A new study about that examined health disparities among lesbian and bisexual women compared to heterosexual women published in the Journal of the American Medical Association cites a UCLA CHPR study.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), LGBTQ Health
Joelle Wolstein