UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research

12/04/2024

We will be stepping away from posting to Facebook. Please stay in touch by visiting our website - https://health.ucdavis.edu/chpr/ - or following us on LinkedIn and Instagram:

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The UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research facilitates research, promotes education and informs policy about health and healthcare.

11/21/2024

Register now to attend our final webinar of the year! On December 4, Alejandra Casillas from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA joins our Seminar Series to discuss the needs and challenges for first-generation college students in medicine.

Register: https://ucdavishealth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j2ZJbq5MT2m4nxdwX-gJkA #/registration

11/14/2024

Sarah Haynes joins our Seminar Series on November 20 to discuss the challenges and risks facing adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes. Haynes, a UC Davis Health epidemiologist and health services researcher, will share the key components of a low-resource transition intervention for adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes.

Register to attend the webinar: https://ucdavishealth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j2ZJbq5MT2m4nxdwX-gJkA #/registration

11/08/2024

Miss this week's seminar with Northwestern University's David Liss? Catch up and watch the video! It was a great conversation about social drivers of health among historically underserved populations and primary care. Watch now:

Title: Leveraging high-value interventions to improve care in historically underserved populationsPresenter: David Liss, Ph.D. | Research Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of MedicineDate: November 6, 2024

11/07/2024

Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Around 75-85% of Americans will experience back pain during their life and many will visit their doctor about it. Our new study tries to understand physician-patient communication strategies to reduce low-value, lower back spinal imaging.

Learn more:

Spinal imaging for back pain may not be needed, but patients might still ask for it. A program designed to help clinicians engage patients with back pain did not help reduce imaging rates.

11/07/2024

We're hosting a special seminar next week with the UC Davis Center for Poverty & Inequality Research! Join us via webinar as sociologist Erin Hamilton discusses policies affecting health and wellbeing across groups of immigrants in Mexico and the U.S. Register: https://ucdavishealth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j2ZJbq5MT2m4nxdwX-gJkA #/registration

11/04/2024

Our team is growing! We're seeking applicants for a research coordinator who will work on a project comparing the outcomes of opioid use disorder treatment administered via telehealth and in-person clinic visits.

Learn more and apply: https://health.ucdavis.edu/chpr/about-us/join-our-team

11/04/2024

Our researchers were recently awarded a new grant from the CDC to evaluate a unique emergency department-based program to treat opioid use disorder. The study will assess utilization of outpatient behavioral health services. Learn more:

UC Davis researchers received a new grant to evaluate a unique emergency department-based program to treat opioid use disorder. The study will assess utilization of outpatient behavioral health services.

11/01/2024

A huge thank you to Priya Shete for joining our Seminar Series from UC San Francisco! She shared how the California Collaborative for Public Health Research (CPR3) is working to inform public health policies through collaborative, equity-focused research and dissemination.

Watch Shete's seminar: https://video.ucdavis.edu/media/CHPR+Seminar+Series+%7C+Priya+Shete%2C+M.D.%2C+M.P.H.+%7C+October+30%2C+2024/1_dxsw1gdz

Title: The California Collaborative for Public Health Research (CPR3)Presenter: Priya Shete, M.D., M.P.H. | Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UC San FranciscoDate: October 30, 2024

10/31/2024

How can we improve care for historically underserved populations? David Liss from Northwestern University joins our Seminar Series on November 6 to discuss interventions that can help patients establish a usual source of primary care. He will also review the goals of programs to identify and address social drivers of health.

Register to join the webinar: https://ucdavishealth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j2ZJbq5MT2m4nxdwX-gJkA #/registration

10/25/2024

📺 New video! Check out this week's seminar featuring Melanie Dove from the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences. Dove shared research on the intended goals and unintended consequences of flavored to***co sales restrictions. She helped us understand the advantages of academic and community partnerships in policymaking.

Watch the video: https://video.ucdavis.edu/media/CHPR+Seminar+Series+%7C+Melanie+S.+Dove%2C+M.P.H.%2C+Sc.D.+%7C+October+23%2C+2024/1_ttav8w41

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Title: A tale of two flavored to***co sales restrictions: California and MassachusettsPresenter: Melanie S. Dove, M.P.H., Sc.D. | Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis HealthDate: October 23, 2024

10/24/2024

The California Collaborative for Public Health Research is working to inform public health policies through collaborative, equity-focused research and dissemination. Want to learn more about this initiative?

Join our virtual Seminar Series on October 30 as Priya Shete discusses the role of CPR3 in building collaborative public health research efforts across the UC system. Register: https://ucdavishealth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j2ZJbq5MT2m4nxdwX-gJkA #/registration