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Health Care Access and Service Utilization among Immigrants in California: Assessing the Influence of Legal Status, Policy Reform, & Racialization

Explore the institutional and structural barriers for immigrants to access quality health care and service utilization.

Principal Investigator: Kimberly Megan Collier

Health and Well-Being of California Families With Young Children

This project aims to examine child care in California using CHIS 2019 to 2022 data and children's mental health using CHIS 2018 to 2022 data.

Principal Investigator: Ninez Ponce

Gun Ownership and Perceptions of Gun Safety among California Immigrants

1. What are factors associated with gun ownership and safe storage practices among Latino and Asian immigrant subgroups?

Principal Investigator: George Tita

Food Insecurity and Child Food Consumption Patterns Among WIC Participating Families in Los Angeles County Within the Context of the WIC Food Package Change and WIC + SNAP Concurrent Participation

Cross-sectional determinants of food insecurity will be identified at each time point for WIC-only vs. WIC + SNAP participants, in order to inform the trends analysis.

Principal Investigator: Pia Chaparro

Focus on LGBT Mental Health Outcomes

Using 2023 CHIS data, this study will examine LGBT adults and their experience with serious or moderate psychological distress, functional impairment, suicide ideation and attempts, and access to mental health services.

Principal Investigator: Imelda Padilla-Frausto

Focus on Immigrant Mental Health and Access to Care

Study whether California immigrants have differing mental health status, outcomes, and access to mental health care based on their citizenship or legal status.

Principal Investigator: Imelda Padilla-Frausto

Focus on American Indian/Alaska Native Mental Health, Impairment, and Service Use

Using 5 years of pooled CHIS data, this study will examine American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) adults and their experience with serious or moderate psychological distress, functional impairment, suicide ideation and attempts, and access to mental health services.

Principal Investigator: Imelda Padilla-Frausto

Focus of Black/African American adult and teen mental health details

This project aims to examine more closely the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black and African American mental health and suicidal ideation.

Principal Investigator: Imelda Padilla-Frausto

First 5 CA Kit for New Parents

To understand whether the First 5 CA Kits are reaching targeted families, how families benefit from the Kits, and how the Kits and their distribution can be improved.

Principal Investigator: Heather Quick

Exploring the Relationship Between Identity and Health Care Access and Utilization among Sexual and Gender Minority Immigrants

The purpose of my proposed dissertation research is to expand the knowledge base on the intersectional experience of sexual and gender minority immigrants and access to health care in the United States.

Principal Investigator: Bozhidar Chakalov