Join us as we kick off the new academic year with a Welcome Back event at CCPR! The event will feature a presentation by Professor Martha Bailey, along with brief remarks from CCPR leadership and staff. A reception will follow, offering a chance to connect with colleagues and new affiliates. All are welcome—we look forward […]
Natalia Serna (Stanford University) Biography: Natalia Serna, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University. Her research studies how insurer and provider competition shapes health plan design and patient health outcomes, using tools from industrial organization and causal inference. One strand of her work examines provider network design, insurer-provider contracting, and the government […]
Emily Smith-Greenaway (USC) Emily Smith-Greenaway is Dean’s Professor of Sociology and Professor of Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. Her research seeks to infuse social-psychological perspectives into demography to advance how we quantify and theorize key population processes and how we study them in cause and consequence. Much of her work focuses on […]
Our Computing Orientation provides an overview of the technological resources, services, and support available through CCPR to advance affiliates’ research. The session will cover data management planning and security requirements, guidance on choosing and accessing appropriate computational resources (including individual, centralized, and high-performance environments), and an introduction to the Secure Data Enclave for projects with […]
Jake Anderson (UCLA, Economics) Jake Anderson is a PhD candidate in Economics at UCLA and an affiliate of the California Center for Population Research, where he held a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) T32 traineeship in 2024-2025. His research is in the economics of crime, with work in progress on peer […]
Felicia Knaul, UCLA Dr. Felicia Marie Knaul is the associate of the chancellor at UCLA, a distinguished professor of medicine, and a senior advisor to both the dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine and the president of UCLA Health, and director of global health of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is internationally […]
