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Oct 25, 2026
California Health Interview Survey data about medical debt among Los Angles County adults was cited in this story that compared wealth and debt across generations, as well as races and ethnicities.
Oct 25, 2026
Naomi Zewde, an assistant professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was interviewed in a story about a candidate's proposed Medicare voucher system that she said would likely create a gap that enrollees have to fill with their own dollars.
Oct 21, 2026
Data from a report by the California Simulation of Insurance Markets about how many Californians under age 65 are projected to lose health insurance by 2030 was cited in this column about the one-time billionaire's tax on the ballot in California.
Oct 19, 2026
Todd Hughes, director of the California Health Interview Survey, was interviewed about recently released survey findings that provide an estimate of how the 2025 wildfires affected Californians' mental health.
Oct 18, 2026
Sue Babey, director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and one of the authors of a study about food insecurity among California college students, was quoted in this story about changes to the CalFresh food assistance program that expand eligibility for college students.
Oct 17, 2026
Data from the 2025 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) were cited in this story about how wildfires and smoke from wildfires has affected people's mental health. The 2025 CHIS measures the impact of the Palisades and Eaton fires that devastated parts of Los Angeles County in 2025.
Oct 15, 2026
This story features a range of newly released 2025 data from the California Health Interview Survey that was presented during the annual data release webinar. It appeared in all of the Southern California Newspaper Group newspapers (which include the Orange County Register and Riverside Press Enterprise) as well as Pasadena Now and MyNewsLA.
Oct 15, 2026
This story spotlights California Health Interview Survey data documenting the impact of wildfires in California, usage of air conditioning during heat waves, immigrants' utilization of healthcare, and vaping among young adults.
Oct 10, 2026
This story cites a statistic about how the number of Californians without insurance may potentially double to almost 15% by 2030, according to a report by the California Simulation of the Insurance Markets (CalSIM) a project of the the UC Berkeley Labor Center and UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Oct 10, 2026
Arturo Vargas Bustamante, faculty research director at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered expert analysis on how many Latinos are expected to disenroll from social safety net programs. The report he co-authored cites data from the California Health Interview Survey.