Center in the News
Dec 12, 2024
Los Angles Times (Boiling Point newsletter)
Dozens of researchers from UCLA and other universities are studying the health fallout of the Aliso Canyon leak, which between October 2015 and February 2016 spewed a then-record 109,000 tons of methane. Michael Jerrett, an environmental health sciences professor at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, who is leading the research, was quoted.
Aliso Canyon Health Study
Dec 07, 2024
San Francisco Chronicle (paywall)
Gerald Kominski, a senior fellow at UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered context about the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Gerald F. Kominski
Dec 06, 2024
Los Angeles Daily News (paywalled)
According to UCLA researchers studying the health impacts of the gas leak, pregnant women living near the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility during and after the blowout were more likely to have premature births and low-weight newborns compared to women in other communities.
Dec 04, 2024
California Healthline (KFF Health News)
“Medicaid is on the chopping block, and I don’t think that’s speculation,” says Gerald Kominski, a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. “It is widely viewed by potential members of Trump’s administration as a program that is too broad and needs to be brought under control.”
Gerald F. Kominski
Dec 03, 2024
Black Voice News
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research showed that more than two-thirds (67.5%) of caregivers in California are middle aged, with nearly 40% between the ages of 45 and 64.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Sean Tan,
Sriya Kudaravalli,
Kathryn G. Kietzman
Nov 29, 2024
Sacramento Bee
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research estimates that more than 1.3 uninsured Californians qualify for subsidies through Covered California or are eligible for Medi-Cal.
Nov 29, 2024
Daily Mail (UK)
Backing up Dr Hill's observations, UCLA has been tracking behavioural trends for years, including sex, through its annual California Health Interview Survey - the largest state health survey in the nation. In 2021, the number of young Californians aged 18 to 30 who’d had no sexual partners in the past year reached a decade high of 38 per cent. This compares to 22 per cent in 2011.
Ninez A. Ponce
Nov 26, 2024
FOX 40 (KTXL Sacramento)
Data from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's evaluation of California's Whole Person Care program were cited in a television news report about Sutter Health expanding its medical offerings in Folsom and the surrounding foothills.
Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Whole Person Care (WPC) Program Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat
Nov 22, 2024
Lookout Santa Cruz
In 2022 in Santa Cruz County, 21.4% of people reported in a California Health Interview Survey that they had delayed medical care or didn’t receive the care they needed, compared to the statewide average of 16.5%.
Nov 21, 2024
MDLinx
Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, offered his ideas about how Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s qualifications for the position of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Serivces.
Gerald F. Kominski