Center in the News
Aug 14, 2024
San Francisco Public Press
Food insecurity disproportionately affects people of color. In California, mixed-race adults are the most food-insecure racial group, with 50% possessing that status, followed by African Americans, at about 49%, according to a 2023 report by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Aug 14, 2024
Los Angeles Daily News
Helen Attai, a resident of Granada Hills and co-founder of the Aliso Moms Alliance group, said she was shocked to hear about recent findings by UCLA researchers that pregnant women who lived near Aliso Canyon during and after the 2015 blowout had a higher chance of premature births and low-weight newborns compared to women from other communities.
Aliso Canyon Health Study
Aug 13, 2024
Medical Xpress
Data from the 2021 California Health Interview Survey was used by Daniel Zhao, M.D., from Maimonides Medical Center in New York City, and colleagues when they evaluated how individual factors and neighborhood social cohesion are associated with negative mental health effects of exposure to extreme weather events.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Aug 08, 2024
Los Angeles Times
Sammy Roth, who writes the newspaper's twice weekly Boiling Point newsletter about the environment, clean energy, and sustainability, mentioned UCLA's continuing efforts to study the effects of the Aliso Canyon gas leak.
Aliso Canyon Health Study
Aug 07, 2024
KFF Health News
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that 21% of California dentists saw Medi-Cal patients of all ages, according to data from 2019 to 2021. Also published on California Health Line.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Nadereh Pourat
Aug 06, 2024
Sacramento Bee
Ninez A. Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, was a featured speaker at the Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander health equity roundtable, which included representatives from the state AAPI Caucus and Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, as well as federal and state agencies and community-based organizations based throughout California.
Ninez A. Ponce
Aug 04, 2024
Daily Nation (Kenya)
Dr. Daniel Eisenberg, a UCLA professor of health policy and management and director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's mental health program, was cited in this story about mental health among college-going adults in Kenya. (Paywall)
Daniel Eisenberg
Aug 02, 2024
Los Angeles Daily News
Over the next six months, a UCLA team will continue collecting a massive amount of data that will help dozens of scientists and researchers investigate how residents have been impacted by the Aliso Canyon gas leak near Porter Ranch that went on for four months, forcing thousands of families to evacuate their homes.
Aliso Canyon Health Study
Aug 02, 2024
Capital & Main
Food insecurity is limited or inconsistent access to healthy food, according to UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Aug 02, 2024
Meteoweb (Italy)
California: One in Five Suffers Mental Illness Due to Extreme Weather
An Italian news website story about how climate change affected mental health, cited a new study that used data from the California Health Interview Survey. (No link available.)