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Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at UCLA Fielding, Dr. Ninez Ponce has been honored for her work building the California Health Interview Survey as a model for state efforts to understand access to healthcare.

Dr. James Macinko, UCLA Fielding’s associate dean for research and professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, is a co-author of a recent research paper that found a significant majority of potential voters indeed favor restrictions on guns where alcohol is served, but support drops if enforcement costs the respondent as little as $100 a year.

A study whose co-authors include UCLA Fielding's Dr. Frederick Zimmerman, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Dr. Kathryn Leifheit, assistant professor, suggests policies to prevent eviction may also yield health benefits.

UCLA Fielding's Dr. Patricia Ganz, distinguished professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Dr. Catherine Crespi, professor in the Department of Biostatistics, among co-authors of study that suggests a nutritional supplement may help ease ‘brain fog’ after breast cancer treatment.

UCLA Fielding’s Dr. Susan Ettner, distinguished professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, is being honored for her foundational research on the causal link between socioeconomic status and health and her pioneering research in behavioral health economics.

The latest annual California Health Interview Survey also provides data-driven insights into immigrants’ health and young adult vaping, among other topics.

Dr. Michael Ong, a physician and professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, was honored for his leadership of project to bring food bank and healthcare services to veterans in Los Angeles.

Analysis co-authored by UCLA Fielding's Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante shows how immigration-related fears, eligibility restrictions, and administrative requirements create multiple paths to losing health coverage and food assistance.

Team including UCLA Fielding's Dr. Joann Elmore, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, will test and evaluate AI tools geared towards treating patients with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

Dr. Katherine Ho, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA Fielding, studies how community support affects breast cancer survival rates.

Dr. Kekoa Taparra, a physician and assistant professor at UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, served on a research team examining cancer in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities that found Native Hawaiian women in the U.S. have highest breast cancer incidence of any group.