Center in the News List
Feb 11, 2025
Mark A. Peterson, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, explained how the open-ended nature of mental health therapy can conflict with health plans’ focus on their bottom lines. “It may be once a week, it may be more than once a week and go on for years.”
Feb 09, 2025
Ninez A. Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, said she hopes Frenk can provide seminars or lectures at the School of Public Health and motivate UCLA’s researchers and students to contribute more on a global stage.
Feb 08, 2025
Maria-Elena Young, a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and assistant professor of public health at UC Merced, provided context on how President Trump’s immigration policies can add paranoia to every aspect of life for people without U.S. citizenship. “The way our immigration laws work in this country is that they function essentially to criminalize (noncitizen) peoples’ day-to-day activities.”
Feb 05, 2025
Ashvin Gandi and his co-authors describe their study that showed that during the pandemic employer vaccine mandates significantly increased the number of staff at nursing homes who became vaccinated, which had life-saving effects on the health of nursing home residents.
Feb 04, 2025
This commentary cites California Health Interview Survey about rising obesity rates in California to illustrate the urgent need to reform nutrition programs in the United States.
Feb 01, 2025
Associate Center Director Nadereh Pourat said that consolidation in the health care market is usually associated with increasing costs and subsequent increases in premiums.
Jan 28, 2025
Mark A. Peterson, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered helpful context about the Trump administration's executive order to freeze federal funding of a wide range of programs.
Jan 27, 2025
Data from the California Health Interview Survey showed that one in four Black respondents said they could have received better medical care if they were a different race or ethnicity.
Jan 22, 2025
Data from the 2021 California Health Interview Survey was cited in an article about the mental health impact of wildfires and climate change.
Jan 22, 2025
Dylan Roby, faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, remains cautiously optimistic that federal health insurance subsidies will remain in place under the new presidential administration because enrollment in marketplace plans is especially high in Republican-controlled states that have not expanded Medicaid.