Four new studies examine health, climate, and policy changes facing unhoused populations

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Four recent studies by CCPR Faculty Fellow Professor Randall Kuhn and CCPR Affiliate Professor Kathryn Leifheit, examining the impact of the January 2025 fires on people experiencing homelessness, medical concerns facing unsheltered homeless…

Self-employed Hispanic women may be at lower risk for cardiovascular disease compared with their salaried counterparts

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Recent findings from CCPR Faculty Affiliate Dr. Kimberly Narain and colleagues show that self-employed Hispanic women report less high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, poor health, and binge drinking compared to Hispanic women working for…

New findings from 20 years of research on Latino Health

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Latinos are the second largest racial/ethnic group in the US, comprising about one-fifth of the population in 2024. Their widely recognized survival advantage over most other racial/ethnic groups; however, often obscures the many health-related…

Deportation Data Project receives national media coverage

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A recent report from the Deportation Data Project found that deportations from within the United States increased by a factor of 4.6 during the first nine months of the second Trump administration. This report has received coverage in USA Today, NBC,…

The New York Times cites CCPR Director Bailey’s M-CARES RCT

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CCPR Director Martha Bailey's Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study (M-CARES) is cited in a New York Times article. Read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opinion/health-care-medicaid-cuts.…

The Washington Post uses data from Prof. Blair’s Deportation Data Project

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Data from Professor Blair's Deportation Data Project were featured on the front page of the Washington Post: "ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of at-large arrests, data shows."

UCLA Newsroom highlights CCPR Director Martha Bailey’s M-CARES findings on public health impacts of fully subsidized contraception

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CCPR Director Martha Bailey's study, Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study (M-CARES), examines changes in the choice of contraception and pregnancy outcomes over time for low-income women by removing all contraceptive…

Forbes Covers New UCLA Study Connecting Self-Employment with Lower Heart Disease Risk

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Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a 2025 UCLA study found that self-employed women were 7.4% less likely to be obese, 7% less likely to be physically inactive, and 9.4% less likely to report insufficient…

Reporting outlets use data from Professor Graeme Blair’s Deportation Data Project

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Reporting using data from the Deportation Data Project: Human Rights Watch reports: ICE Abuses in Los Angeles Set Stage for Other Cities The Guardian reports that ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for…

Featured on CBS News, CCPR Director Martha Bailey’s new working paper uses a randomized controlled trial to quantify how funding for reproductive health affects pregnancies and abortions in the US.

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Read the article featured by CBS News at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reproductive-health-trump-administration-hhs-cuts/ In this new working paper (https://www.nber.org/papers/w34400), Director Bailey finds that subsidizing reproductive health…