Center in the News List
Dec 02, 2025
Data from a UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study about food insecurity and hunger among California community college students was cited in the Diablo Valley College campus newspaper.
Dec 01, 2025
Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, assistant professor of public health at UC Merced and an affiliate of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, explained how cuts to federal Medicaid (known as Medi-Cal in California) could affect California farmworkers.
Nov 29, 2025
Dylan Roby, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research affiliate and professor at the UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health, was quoted in this article about how the end of Affordable Care Act subsidies could affect Americans' finances.
Nov 24, 2025
This story references how the California Civil Rights Department worked with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research to catalong hate incidents in the annual California Health Interview Survey.
Nov 17, 2025
Nearly 10 years after the massive Aliso Canyon gas leak forced thousands of Porter Ranch residents from their homes, new preliminary findings from a UCLA study suggest the blowout may have had long-term health consequences for pregnant women living nearby.
Nov 17, 2025
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Senior Fellow Arturo Vargas Bustamante was quoted in this story about how cuts to California's CalFresh program could disproportionately affect farmworkers in the state.
Nov 14, 2025
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research statistics about who is eligible for government financial assistance to pay for health care coverage whether via Medi-Cal or Covered California was cited in this story.
Nov 13, 2025
Nadereh Pourat, associate center director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided important to a story about the rise of concierge health care, which she noted benefits the wealthy.
Nov 10, 2025
Riti Shimkhada, a senior research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, explained what effects the linguistic and cultural barriers to getting health care can do to older Asian adults, including things like not getting timely appointments, nor getting access to primary care or specialty care.
Nov 08, 2025
AJ Scheitler, director of the Data Equity Center at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided important context about how college students and their academic success are affected by food insecurity.