UCLA Fielding's Dr. Ninez Ponce elected to board of directors of the California Health Care Foundation

Dr. Ninez Ponce, professor and chair in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy Management, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the California Health Care Foundation.

Ponce is director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and principal investigator for the California Health Interview Survey, the nation’s largest population-based state health survey. She is also a professor and Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

“I am thrilled to welcome Ninez to our board,” said Dr. Sandra R. Hernández, president and CEO of the foundation. “She is a brilliant researcher and a powerful advocate for health equity. Her leadership as a prominent Filipina scholar provides a critical lens for our work, especially her ability to shed light on disparities that have long been obscured by data aggregation.”

The California Health Care Foundation, or CHCF, is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need.

Elizabeth Gibboney, chair of the foundation’s board of directors, praised Ponce’s “visionary leadership of the California Health Interview Survey, which provides the foundational data that powers so much of CHCF’s work. Her expertise in translating data into actionable insights will be an enormous asset as we work to improve health care for all Californians.”