From health care reform in the United States to health care costs around the world, the Center is pleased to host leading health policy experts at our lunchtime seminar series. Seminars take place once a month at the Center's offices for approximately one hour.
The Center's FREE Health Policy Seminar Series: 2011
May 2011
"Privatization Processes in a Universal Health Care System -- the Case of Israel"
Dani Filc and Nadav Dividovitch, senior lecturers, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
April 2011
"California Budget Health Care Message: Stay Healthy and Don't Be Old or Poor"
Sheila Kuehl, former chair of the California Senate Health Committee
April 2011
"The Impact of Federal Budget Cuts on Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Research"
California Representative Karen Bass, 37th District
March 2011
"Caring for the Uninsured in California with Prostate Cancer"
Mark Litwin, professor of health services, UCLA School of Public Health, and urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
February 2011
"Primary Care Physician Supply Under the Patient Protection and Affordble Care Act"
Dylan H. Roby, research scientist, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; assistant professor, UCLA School of Public Health.
January 2011
"The Evolving Impact of Health IT on Health Policy"
Jean Balgrosky, UCLA lecturer on information technology and former SVP and CIO for Scripps Health and CIO for Holy Cross Health System
Paul C. Fu Jr., associate clinical professor in the UCLA Department of Pediatrics and Health Services (where he also serves as director of clinical informatics) and the former chief medical information officer at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) is one of the nation’s leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health policy information for California. UCLA CHPR improves the public’s health through high quality, objective, and evidence-based research and data that informs effective policymaking. UCLA CHPR is the home of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and is part of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and affiliated with the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.