He has led multidisciplinary collaborative initiatives to promote health equity, including as founding director of the Health Equity Network of the Americas, an international network with representatives from 26 countries, founding director of the UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America, and founding director of the AltaMed Institute for Health Equity.
Rodríguez’s policy-relevant research includes ethnic/racial and immigrant health equity, gun violence prevention, intimate partner violence prevention, primary and global health, and health workforce for underserved populations. He has mentored and taught faculty and trainees in a wide range of disciplines.
Dr. Michael Rodriguez, a family physician and a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, said child patients may require different types of medication, or different doses depending on their weights and heights, as well as different levels of fluids.