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The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research improves the public’s health through high-quality, objective, and evidence-based research and data that informs effective policymaking. We advance this mission through policy analysis, policy-relevant research, public service, community partnership, media relations, and education.
UCLA CHPR provides data on the health and health care needs of California's large and diverse population through the California Health Interview Survey, the largest population-based state health survey in the nation.
Our vision is a health policy process driven by credible and comprehensive evidence, leading to equitable, impactful, and cost-effective laws, policies, and programs. We also believe data should be democratized and put into the hands of the public in ways that inform, educate, and result in grassroots-driven policy change. Ultimately, we aim to develop crucial evidence to support the elimination of persistent disparities in health and health coverage.
UCLA CHPR has been pioneering ways to put data and research into the hands of people who need it for the last 30 years. We give policymakers, advocates, health care providers, community organizations, researchers, journalists, and other stakeholders the evidence-based data to assess different aspects of health and then work on policies that can improve the lives of Californians through better health and health care.
We run the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), which interviews more than 20,000 each year on topics such as health insurance, mental health, access to and use of health care, health conditions and behaviors, and many topics that influence health, such as food insecurity, housing stability, discrimination, fears of gun violence, climate change, and much more. We look at data across a range of sociodemographic factors, such as race and ethnicity, income/poverty level, sexual orientation and gender identity, gender, immigration status, age, with a focus on illuminating health disparities and working to advance data equity and health equity.
