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In the News

Below are samples highlighting CPEHN's areas of expertise.

 

LANGUAGE ACCESS

• "It's the law: California patients can have an interpreter at their side"
  Bobby Ciana Calvan, The Sacramento Bee
  January 3, 2009
• "New law keeps all on board"
  Rebecca Plevin, Vida en el Valle
  April 15, 2009

HEALTH CARE REFORM

• "State Law Needed to Keep Insurers' Greed in Check"
  Ellen Wu, Nancy Gomez, and Anthony Wright, New America Media
  May 27, 2011
• "One Year Later, Health Reform Benefits 100,000 Californians"
  Viji Sundaram, New America Media
  March 23, 2011
• "Health Care Reform: Latinos have the biggest stake"
  John Gonzalez and Yurina Rico, La Opinion
  February 7, 2011
• "Why people of color should support California health care reform"
  Ellen Wu, Denise Adams-Simms, and Dong Suh, New America Media
  January 28, 2008

PREVENTION

• "Cash, Credits, Peer Support Incentives to Alter Bad Health Habits"
  David Gorn, California Healthline
  April 14, 2011
• "Better Foods Coming to a State Agency Near You"
  Assemblymember Holly Mitchell, California Progress Report
  March 24, 2011
• "Better habits can help trim bloated health care system"
  Bobby Caina Calvan, The Sacramento Bee
  January 2, 2010
• "A case for paid sick days"
  Op-ed by Ellen Wu and Rajiv Bhatia, San Francisco Chronicle
  May 15, 2009

HEALTH DISPARITIES

• "California outpatient care worst for blacks"
  Joanna Lin, California Watch
  June 3, 2011
• "Lawmaker wants state to count more ethnic groups"
  Joanna Lin, California Watch
  May 9, 2011
• "Asian, Hispanics live longest in California"
  Javier Olvera, The Mercury News
  August 30, 2007

STATE BUDGET

• "Proposed state cuts threaten poor"
  Rebecca Pleven, Vida en el Valle
  January 10, 2012
• "Governor's Budget Proposes to Cut Health Costs Through More Coordinated Care"
  Pauline Bartolone, Capital Public Radio
  January 10, 2012
• "My Word: Time to jettison the two-thirds vote for California's budget"
  Op-ed by Ellen Wu, Oakland Tribune
  January 22, 2010
• "Crowd to Calif. gov; 'Don't let our state go up in smoke!'"
  Marilyn Bechtel, People's Weekly World Newspaper
  July 15, 2009 

RECOGNITION

• "Governor Schwarzenegger appoints nine members to public health advisory committee"
  Imperial Valley News
  February 15, 2008