Primary care physician + health policy researcher @UCLA_GIMHSR focused on housing, place, and population health equity.
Joined August 2019
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📣NEW PUBLICATION📣
A new article led by @LeifScience using Children’s HealthWatch data finds children are more likely to drop out of #SNAP, #WIC, and #Medicaid around the time of a cost-driven move.
Read the article: childrenshealthwatch.org/mov… – at Stamford, CT
Katherine Chen retweeted
Important and clarifying article from @snmarkley on the role and significance of HOLC’s redlining maps, which lays out current debates and a path forward (1/)
New #debates paper by Scott Markley: 'Federal "#Redlining" Maps: A Critical Reappraisal'
@snmarkley
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Study finds positive health associations with homeownership for African American, Latinx, and White homeowners, but housing policies of racial exclusion or predatory inclusion can diminish or eliminate homeownership's health benefits. rdcu.be/derXO
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Tenants at Barrington Plaza in West LA are fighting the largest mass eviction in LA in generations. It would be a devastating blow for renters in LA. @BPTenants_org
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1 in 10 California adults—or 3 million people—reported having financial difficulties paying for their rent or mortgage in 2021 because of the COVID-19 outbreak or had difficulty paying for housing due to COVID, according to a new @UCLAchpr study: ucla.in/3ZYd2R4 (1/5)⬇️
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How do hospital systems and healthcare payers, like @UnitedHealthGrp, invest in affordable housing?
How can these investments go wrong? And is there a way to make them better for patients?
@megansandel & I explore these Qs & more in @JournalGIM:
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Our new paper out in @Health_Affairs shows racial/ethnic disparities in debt among medical trainees: all types of debt are more common among URiM medical trainees, with the largest disparities for premed loans & consumer debt. healthaffairs.org/doi/10.137…
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New in NEJM: "An anchor strategy is a place-based business approach to building community health & wealth by means of local hiring, investing, purchasing, & community engagement."
More on this important step to improve wealth & advance #HealthEquity. 👇🏾
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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#JAMAForum: @stuartmbutler discusses the challenges of assessing the effects of housing investment as a #SocialDeterminantOfHealth, coordinating budgeting, building infrastructure, and the targeted government actions underway. ja.ma/3QLm6DR
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LA neighbors! Did you, like me, receive a notice of rent increase that made your eyes pop? I made a map to help tenants figure out if the rent hikes are allowed - rules vary considerably depending on where you live.
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Katherine Chen retweeted
New pub live with @mharvey215 in @CPHjournal! Our critical content analysis of MPH social and behavioral science textbooks stemmed from interest in thinking critically about how health, behavior, and society are framed within public health instruction. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Super proud advisor moment! My MURP advisee (and superstar former research assistant) @NatalyyRioss won the @ucla_its transportation equity and justice award for her capstone with the @sabanclinic.
Centering equity & working hard to collect original data, are a winning combo!
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We argue that 1) housing is a powerful and vastly underutilized tool to promote population health; 2) housing insecurity is not inevitable, but results from policy choices; and 3) now is a key moment for health researchers to inform policies that change the status quo
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I’m honored and humbled be on a list with some of my population health idols! Thank you @ia4phs !
Congratulations to all our 2022 IAPHS award winners! Read more about these outstanding population health scientists and programs this week on our blog. @sandrogalea @drdrtsai @merlinc2 @LeifScience @bertchantarat @ewrigleyfield
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Great to see the stalwarts of @dgsomucla, @dom_ucla, @UCLAFSPH & @UCLA_GIMHSR at the final poster session @SocietyGIM #SGIM22. Plus a sighting of our Division Chief emeritus Martin Shapiro & Best Research Paper winner @cioronce! What a great IRL mtg & can't wait for next yr SGIM!
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We formed REACH UCLA Health in 2020 to change this in LA. REACH or Realizing Equitable Access to Care for Health includes faculty, trainees & students who recognize...
LA Times Op-Ed: Why won't UC clinics serve patients with state-funded health insurance? latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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How do policies and power structures affect housing access–and in turn, affect our health? Find out in this 2021 conference recap from @LeifScience and @katchenmd .
#IAPHS2021 #PopulationHealth #Housing #HealthPOlicy
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Katherine Chen retweeted
Cool @HSR_HRET study using diff-in-diff to show that opening Metro Green Line🚇 in Minneapolis ➡️4.5% lower outpatient no-shows, 9.5% lower for Medicaid pts! @katchenmd @dylanlscott @HNeprash @laura2smith @Ateevm @EGolberstein @AaronDawesMD @MNCRSurgery vox.com/policy-and-politics/…
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There are multiple scenarios in which disparity measures might be the same, but health equity could worsen as more persons have levels of health further from what a just society could provide.
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I've got a story in @TheAtlantic today looking at what might happen if instead of distributing housing vouchers to landlords, we just gave renters cash.
It's an idea well worth studying, and HUD is actually talking about it! theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
