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Coming from a family of healthcare providers, I became interested in public health research at an early age. I was especially drawn to cancer epidemiology, because despite all the efforts to eradicate or curtail cancer, it continues to dominate our lives, touching all of us in some way.

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Ensuring Equitable Climate Mitigation Policies

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In 1987, the first of a series of reports by an FSPH research team led by Drs. E. Richard Brown and Robert O. Valdez found that 22% of California’s under-65 population lacked health insurance. The group followed those findings with studies breaking down who was uninsured, how it affected their health, and what it cost the healthcare system. The groundbreaking research called attention to a national problem and planted the seeds for healthcare reform in the U.S., culminating in the Affordable Care Act.

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