Our Graduate Summer Intern, Christie Ahn, will be leaving us in August. We wish Christie the very best as she continues her second and final year of her MPH degree in Health Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. 

CHBRP will be welcoming a new Graduate Assistant,

Ana Ashby,  a 2019 Master's Candidate at the Goldman School of Public Policy at Berkeley. She's worked as a staffer, lobbyist, organizer, and advocate on behalf of low-income communities, and supported ACA implementation in Minnesota from 2011-2017.  Her primary health care interest is in Medicaid, particularly 1115 waivers. She looks forward to joining the CHBRP team and learning from its experienced and knowledgeable team.  Welcome Ana!

 

CHBRP completed 11 analyses of in 2018. The reports, bill language as analyzed, and Key Findings are available for each analysis at http://chbrp.org/completed_analyses/index.php. 

Many bills analyzed by CHBRP are sill moving through the legislative process. At the end of June, CHBRP attended the second round of health committee hearings, as several bills that CHBRP analyzed were heard. We continue to track bill activity and are available to respond to any legislative committee inquiries. The following graphic shows which CHBRP analyzed bills are currently active and have been referred to Appropriations (colored bars) and which bills are inactive (grey bars).

CHBRP was requested to analyze AB 1860 Cancer Treatment earlier this year. On May 8, 2018, the Senate Health Committee requested additional analysis on the impacts on premiums and utilization of oral anticancer medications should AB 1860 not pass and the cost sharing limitation in current statute sunset.  CHBRP submitted its  updated analysis of AB 1860 to the Legislature on June 20, 2018.

CHBRP Medical Effectiveness and Public Health Vice Chair Sara  McMenamin lead a seminar for five undergraduate public health majors at the Uni vers ity of California, San Diego over the Winter and Spring academic quarters. Students delved into health policy topics and CHBRP's methods in order to study the legi slative process in California. Students started off by reviewing the 2016 ana lysis of SB 999 Contraceptives Annual Supply in depth, in order to fully under stand the structure and details of CHBRP reports. Students also selected two health policy related bills introduced in California to track mov ing through the Legislature in 2018. 

After CHBRP completed analyses of 11 bills in 2018, students reviewed the Key Findings and proposed a final project, translating their selected analysis into two separate work products. The first was a poster to convey the information to non-academic audiences that was presented during the final seminar meeting. In addition, students produced brief reports based on the analyses of SB 1034 (Mammograms), AB 2384 (Medication Assisted Treatment), AB 2861 (Medi-Cal Telehealth Substance Abuse Disorder), AB 2342 (BRCA Screening), and AB 2193 (Maternal Mental Health).