Nadereh Pourat has a new role as an associate center director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Pourat joined the Center in 1996 as a senior research scientist and has served as the Center’s director of research since 2013. She also directs the Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program, where she manages a large and diverse portfolio of federal, state and local evaluations and research projects. These projects include evaluation of the health center program funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Section 1115 Medicaid waiver demonstrations, which include the Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in Medi-Cal (PRIME) Program and Whole Person Care (WPC) pilot program, among others.
Pourat is a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management and at UCLA’s School of Dentistry. Her research focuses on policy and system-level changes to improve disparities in access to care and health status within the safety net and for the general U.S. population. She has in-depth expertise in approaches to enhancing primary care delivery, as well as system-level integration of medical, mental, oral health and social services to efficiently improve population health.
Congratulations, Nady!
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