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E. Richard Brown
Professor, UCLA School of Public Health
Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
(310) 794-0812 tel
(310) 794-2686 fax
erbrown@ucla.edu
E. Richard Brown is the Director of the UCLA Center for
Health Policy Research, and he is Professor of Public Health
in the UCLA School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in
sociology of education from the University of California, Berkeley.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, which he founded,
has developed into a leading national health policy research
center and one of the most important sources of health-related
information and analysis on California’s population. Dr.
Brown and the Center’s studies of health insurance coverage,
uninsurance, and eligibility for public programs have been used
by California’s governors, legislators, and advocates
in crafting health insurance legislation and programs. His studies
of the access of disadvantaged populations to health insurance
coverage and health care have been used widely by other researchers,
advocates, and the media to highlight health disparities related
to ethnicity and race, geographic areas of residence, and social
and economic status.
Dr. Brown is the principal investigator for the California Health
Interview Survey (CHIS), one of the nation’s largest ongoing
health surveys. CHIS generates statewide and local-level estimates
for California’s diverse population and covers a broad
range of health issues, including health status and conditions
and access to health care.
Dr. Brown also has been extensively involved in the analysis
and development of public policies, with particular emphasis
on health care reform. He served as a full-time senior consultant
to the President’s Task Force on National Health Care
Reform, for which he co-chaired the work group on coverage for
low-income families and individuals. He has served as health
policy adviser to two members of the United States Senate, where
he has developed health care reform legislation. Dr. Brown also
has developed legislation for the California Legislature and
advised members on a variety of health policy legislative issues.
He has presented invited testimony to numerous committees in
both houses of the U.S. Congress and in the California Legislature,
and has provided consultation to many private, state, federal,
and international agencies. He also has served on a number of
study committees of the Institute of Medicine and the National
Research Council of the National Academy of Science. He is a
Past President of the American Public Health Association.
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