Upcoming Events
2022 Emerging Scholars Program
May 18, 12 - 1 pm PT, BH-212 (Byers Hall, Genentech), UCSF (Webinar available for remote viewing here)
Reimagining the Safety-Net: Implications for Patients and Policy
Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Paula Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. She is a practicing physician and researcher whose work focuses on financing, quality, and patient outcomes in safety-net hospitals. She has also evaluated the consequences of alternative payment models on low-income populations, as well as spillover effects of various state policies related to the Medicaid program. Dr. Chatterjee completed her residency and chief residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to that, she received her BS and MPH from Yale University and her MD from Harvard Medical School.
June Health Policy Grand Rounds
June 15, 12 - 1 pm PT, (Webinar available for remote viewing here)
No Equity Without Data Equity
Ninez Ponce, MPP, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Ninez A. Ponce, MPP, PhD is Professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Director of its Center for Health Policy Research. She leads the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the nation’s largest state health survey, recognized as a national model for data collection on race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity and immigrant health. Her research contributes to the elimination of racial/ethnic/social disparities in health. Dr. Ponce has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Health Statistics and on committees for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Quality Forum, where her expertise has focused on setting guidance for health systems in the measurement and use of race/ethnicity and social determinants of health as tools to monitor health equity. She has received numerous awards from community organizations recognizing her work in communityengaged research, which includes community-academic partnerships with the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations and Asian Health Services. In 2019 Dr. Ponce and the CHIS team received the AcademyHealth Impact award for her contributions to population health measurement to inform public policies.
