Center in the News List
Jun 11, 2024
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.
Jun 06, 2024
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Faculty Associate Lillian Gelberg is quoted in a story about her study of cannabis use in California. The study was published in JAMA Network Open.
May 31, 2024
This episode features Calvin Chang, Director of the UCLA Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Data Policy Lab, talking about the importance of why the NHPI vote matters and strategies that community health workers can use to support youth to vote.
May 30, 2024
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.
May 29, 2024
Research by Ashvin Gandhi, a faculty affiliate of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is cited in this report on for-profit nursing homes.
May 24, 2024
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.
MyNewsLA.com — LA County Nighttime Recreation Program Finds Success, UCLA Study Finds — May 23, 2024
May 23, 2024
A UCLA Center for Health Policy Research evaluation of the Los Angeles County Parks After Dark program found that the program has largely been successful.
May 23, 2024
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.
May 22, 2024
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.
May 20, 2024
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.