Center in the News
Mar 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
UCLA Center for Health Policy senior fellow Mark A. Peterson is quoted in this article about the potential consequences facing U.S. Rep. David Valadao as he prepares to vote on a Republican spending plan that would likely include cuts to Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for lower-income people.
Mark Peterson
Mar 12, 2025
Daily Bruin
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research affiliate May Sudhinaraset, who is a professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in this column about immigrants and health care. “We know that undocumented (people) are much more likely to be uninsured compared to their documented peers, and are also more likely to delay care when they need it.”
May Sudhinaraset
Mar 12, 2025
UCLA Anderson Review
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research affiliate Ashvin Gandhi found that frequent nursing home staff testing was especially beneficial for preventing COVID cases and deaths in the era before vaccines became available.
Ashvin Gandhi
Mar 09, 2025
San Francisco Chronicle (paywall)
Susan H. Babey, director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, provided expertise in this article about how in response to harsher rhetoric against immigrants, there was a decrease in use of public programs due to fear of disrupting their immigration status and immigrants were more likely to delay medical care or prescription refills.
Susan H. Babey
Mar 06, 2025
Capital & Main
Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, discussed his recent policy brief that focused on how President Trump's executive order overturning birthright citizenship creates fear among immigrants.
Arturo Vargas Bustamante
Feb 27, 2025
Daily Bruin
Ninez Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and principal investigator of the center's California Health Interview Survey, provides insight into some of the key findings from the most recent edition. “Measurement is what detects where the needs are, and then policies can help shape programs,” Ponce said.
Ninez A. Ponce
Feb 27, 2025
ABC News
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Senior Fellow Mark A. Peterson said of possible Medicaid cuts: "If they were to try to fill in, they either have to raise taxes significantly, which is not likely to happen, or they would have to cut, say, their next major spending category, which is also not likely. And even very wealthy states, like California, for instance, have been going through their own budget struggles. So, it's not as though they're sitting on a pile of money that's ready to reallocate. There would be extremely serious budgetary consequences."
Mark Peterson
Feb 24, 2025
MB News (Manhattan Beach)
Data from the California Health Interview Survey was used in compiling the 2025-2028 Beach Cities Health District Community Health Report, which examined health and well-being in the cities of Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo Beach.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Feb 21, 2025
TechTarget (registration required)
This story cited 2021 California Health Interview Survey data showing that that patients with limited English proficiency were less likely to report telehealth use and more likely to rate video visit experience as worse than in-person appointments.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Feb 18, 2025
Capital & Main
This story cites 2019 California Health Interview Survey data about differences between girls' and boys' experiences with serious psychological distress.
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto