Center in the News
Jan 22, 2025
California Healthline (KFF Health News)
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.
Dylan Roby
Jan 13, 2025
KQED's "Forum"
Mark A. Peterson, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, West, provided insights into what’s motivating the Republican ideas, past attempts to revamp health care, and what’s at stake this year.
Mark Peterson
Jan 10, 2025
California Healthline
Vickie May, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, points out that even crises can become opportunities for people to learn to become advocates or activists.
Vickie Mays
Jan 06, 2025
California Healthline
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Senior Fellow Mark Peterson provided his thoughts about how political bias can distort facts related to health care funding for immigrants.
Mark Peterson
Jan 02, 2025
Imperial Valley Press (El Centro)
Data from the California Health Interview Survey was used in creating the 2024 California Women’s Well-Being Index.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Dec 27, 2024
North State Public Radio
Data from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) explain the magnitude of impact that signing up eligible people for Medi-Cal coverage could have in the northern parts of California.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Dec 24, 2024
San Jose Mercury News (paywall)
Data from the California Health Interview Survey about the percentage of uninsured Santa Clara County residents was cited in an article about a program that helps low-income and underserved children in Santa Clara County.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Dec 20, 2024
Los Angeles Daily News (paywall)
This article referenced work done by UCLA researchers who are studying the effects of the Aliso Canyon gas leak, specifically preliminary data about pregnant women living near the area during and after the blowout.
Aliso Canyon Health Study
Dec 19, 2024
Shasta Scout
California Health Interview Survey data about teen mental health was used to contextualize the importance of figuring how to best use opioid settlement funds in Shasta County.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Dec 12, 2024
Los Angles Times (Boiling Point newsletter)
Dozens of researchers from UCLA and other universities are studying the health fallout of the Aliso Canyon leak, which between October 2015 and February 2016 spewed a then-record 109,000 tons of methane. Michael Jerrett, an environmental health sciences professor at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, who is leading the research, was quoted.
Aliso Canyon Health Study