Summary:
On January 15, 2019, the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute (LPPI) partnered with the Greenlining Institute and the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (LCHC) to facilitate a public-facing policy briefing on the Latino Physician Crisis to discuss themes of Latino health access, outreach efforts and policy solutions. The briefing featured remarks from Orson Aguilar (Greenlining), Sonja Diaz (LPPI), Dr. Jeffrey Reynoso (LCHC), Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante (LPPI), Carmela Castellano-Garcia (California Primary Care Association), Berenice Núñez Constant (AltaMed), Carmen Estrada (UC Davis School of Medicine), and California Assemblymember Rob Bonta. Special thanks to AltaMed Health Services & the California Health Care Foundation for their financial partnership.