Paul Chung

Dr. Paul Chung is an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the UCLA School of Public Health and chair of health systems science at the Kaiser Permanente Medical School. He is also Research Director of the UCLA/RAND Prevention Research Center, associate director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA, and Public Policy and Advocacy Chair of the Academic Pediatric Association. Dr. Chung was the recipient of the 2009 Nemours Child Health Services Research Award, given annually to a single emerging child health services researcher in the United States. His personal research interests include family leave policy for vulnerable families, well-child care quality and redesign, adolescent health risks, child development and education, and childhood obesity, and he has received grants from funders including CDC, NIH, HRSA, and Pfizer. The UCLA/RAND Center's portfolio is large and eclectic, focusing broadly on policy-relevant prevention research addressing the needs of children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. The UCLA/RAND Center is also committed to community-based participatory research with public and private community partners in the South Bay region of Los Angeles and other areas of Los Angeles County.

Areas of Interest

• Medically and socially complex children
• Childhood development and education
• Child and adolescent health behaviors

Selected Publications

• Chung Paul J, Lui Camillia K, Cowgill Burton O, Hoffman Geoffrey, Elijah Jacinta, Schuster Mark A Employment, Family Leave, and Parents of Newborns or Seriously Ill Children. Academic pediatrics, 2012; 12(3): 181-8. 
• Coker Tumaini R, Kaplan Robert M, Chung Paul J  The association of health insurance and disease impairment with reported asthma prevalence in U.S. children. Health services research, 2012; 47(1 Pt 2): 431-45. 
• Coker Tumaini R, DuPlessis Helen M, Davoudpour Ramona, Moreno Candice, Rodriguez Michael A, Chung Paul J  Well-child care practice redesign for low-income children: the perspectives of health plans, medical groups, and state agencies. Academic pediatrics, 2012; 12(1): 43-52. 
• Nelson Bergen B, Chung Paul J, DuPlessis Helen M, Flores Lilia, Ryan Gery W, Kataoka Sheryl H  Strengthening families of children with developmental concerns: parent perceptions of developmental screening and services in Head Start. Ethnicity & disease, 2011; 21(3 Suppl 1): S1-89-93. 
• Coker Tumaini R, Sareen Harvinder G, Chung Paul J, Kennedy David P, Weidmer Beverly A, Schuster Mark A  Improving access to and utilization of adolescent preventive health care: the perspectives of adolescents and parents. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2010; 47(2): 133-42. 
• Yazdani Shahram, Evan Elana, Roubinov Danielle, Chung Paul J, Zeltzer Lonnie  A longitudinal method of teaching pediatric palliative care to interns: preliminary findings regarding changes in interns' comfort level. Palliative & supportive care, 2010; 8(1): 35-40. 
• Chung Paul J, Garfield Craig F, Elliott Marc N, Ostroff Joshua, Ross Craig, Jernigan David H, Vestal Katherine D, Schuster Mark A  Association between adolescent viewership and alcohol advertising on cable television. American journal of public health, 2010; 100(3): 555-62. 
• Shetgiri Rashmi, Kataoka Sheryl H, Ryan Gery W, Askew Lawren Miller, Chung Paul J, Schuster Mark A   Risk and resilience in Latinos: a community-based participatory research study. American journal of preventive medicine, 2009; 37(6 Suppl 1): S217-24. 
• Coker Tumaini R, Chung Paul J, Cowgill Burton O, Chen Leian, Rodriguez Michael A   Low-income parents' views on the redesign of well-child care. Pediatrics, 2009; 124(1): 194-204. 
• Schuster Mark A, Chung Paul J, Elliott Marc N, Garfield Craig F, Vestal Katherine D, Klein David J  Perceived effects of leave from work and the role of paid leave among parents of children with special health care needs. American journal of public health, 2009; 99(4): 698-705. 
• Bekmezian Arpi, Chung Paul J, Yazdani Shahram  Standardized admission order set improves perceived quality of pediatric inpatient care. Journal of hospital medicine : an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine, 2009; 4(2): 90-6. 
• Bekmezian Arpi, Chung Paul J, Yazdani Shahram  Staff-only pediatric hospitalist care of patients with medically complex subspecialty conditions in a major teaching hospital. Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, 2008; 162(10): 975-80. 
• Schuster Mark A, Chung Paul J, Elliott Marc N, Garfield Craig F, Vestal Katherine D, Klein David J  Awareness and use of California's Paid Family Leave Insurance among parents of chronically ill children. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 2008; 300(9): 1047-55. 
• Chung Paul J, Travis Raphael, Kilpatrick Shelley D, Elliott Marc N, Lui Camillia, Khandwala Shefali B, Dancel Theresa M, Vollandt Lori, Schuster Mark A  Acculturation and parent-adolescent communication about sex in Filipino-American families: a community-based participatory research study. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2007; 40(6): 543-50. 
• Chung Paul J, Garfield Craig F, Elliott Marc N, Carey Colleen, Eriksson Carl, Schuster Mark A  Need for and use of family leave among parents of children with special health care needs. Pediatrics, 2007; 119(5): e1047-55.