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More online resources needed for Californians with disabilities requiring help making critical decisions

UCLA analysis calls for providing supported decision-making materials tailored for more languages, cultures, employment sectors, and disability types

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Community organizations awarded $200,000 to implement UCLA students’ health equity projects

Four proposals each receive $50,000 to support Black male trauma recovery, foster youth resilience, autism-friendly emergency departments, and accessible playgrounds

The 2025 UCLA Health Equity Challenge finalists

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Ask the Expert: Calvin Chang on what community-engaged research means for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

The director of the Native Hawaiian and Pacific islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab explains how good intentions haven’t always produced good collaborations

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August 13, 2025

New data profiles provide health information for California's diverse population

The California Regional Health Profiles each spotlight a distinct region to help policymakers and health advocates better understand the health experiences of the state's different cultures, races, ethnicities, age groups, and communities

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Mental health inequities observed across American Indian and Alaska Native subgroups in California, study finds

Data also showed that many are struggling with day-to-day activities and not receiving care

Woman helps a man older than her read information on a tablet computer.

More online resources needed for Californians with disabilities requiring help making critical decisions

UCLA analysis calls for providing supported decision-making materials tailored for more languages, cultures, employment sectors, and disability types

The 2025 UCLA Health Equity Challenge finalists

Community organizations awarded $200,000 to implement UCLA students’ health equity projects

Four proposals each receive $50,000 to support Black male trauma recovery, foster youth resilience, autism-friendly emergency departments, and accessible playgrounds

Calvin Chang Ask the Expert

Ask the Expert: Calvin Chang on what community-engaged research means for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

The director of the Native Hawaiian and Pacific islander (NHPI) Data Policy Lab explains how good intentions haven’t always produced good collaborations

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New visualization tools provide California county-level data on health among NHPI communities

Advocates and communities will have free access to a new dashboard and data profiles that can help narrow gaps in data and research

CHIS presenting at AAPOR 2025. May 14-16, 2025. St Louis Union Station Hotel

UCLA CHPR research will be presented at the 80th Annual AAPOR Conference

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and California Health Interview Survey staff will present four sessions at the annual American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Conference

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Regular child care remains out of reach for nearly half of young children in California

New report finds that Latinx and lower-income families are more likely to have difficulties accessing child care

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Donate to the Health Equity Challenge during Bruin Giving Day

Contributions can be made April 28–30 to help support the competition that provides UCLA graduate students the opportunity to turn their ideas into action

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UCLA CHPR researchers warn of threats to ‘data democracy’

In a Milbank Quarterly commentary, the authors of a journal article encourage state and local authorities to gather and share disaggregated population-level data to counteract moves made by the federal government