Nadereh Pourat, Ph.D.

Professor, UCLA School of Public Health Director of Research, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research 10960 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1550 Los Angeles, CA 90024 (310)794-2201, (310)794-0909 Fax: (310)794-2686 E-mail: pourat@ucla.edu

Biographical Information

Nadereh Pourat (PhD and MSPH, UCLA) is a professor of health services at the UCLA School of Public Health. She is the director of research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a member of UCLA/Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research.

Dr. Pourat's research focuses on assessing racial/ethnic and other disparities in access to care of underserved populations. Within this context, she has examined disparities in access to breast and cervical cancer screening among Asian Americans, access to care of undocumented and other immigrants, availability of employment-based insurance, access to care of injured workers, and access to STD care of publicly insured. Current areas of concentration include access to oral health care, disparities in outcomes of disease management, and impact of medical home assignment on access to care and patient outcomes within the safetynet system.

Dr. Pourat also has extensive experience in design and implementation of surveys of individuals and professionals and participates in design of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) by serving on the adult technical advisory committee and content specific technical workgroups including medical home, disability, and long term care content areas. Her selected current projects include an evaluation of the Disease Management Pilot Program for the Medicaid fee-for-service population in California; an evaluation of the Health Care Coverage Initiative in 10 California Counties under the Medicaid 1115 Waiver; and a project funded by National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to examine the impact of characteristics of dentists and their practice on access to oral health care of the population.

Selected Publications

Kagawa Singer, M; Pourat, N. “Asian American and Pacific Islander Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Rates and Healthy People 2000 Objectives”. Cancer. 89(3):696-705, August, 2000.

Pourat, N; Rice, T; Kominski, GF; Snyder, R. “Socioeconomic Differences in Supplemental Insurance Coverage Among Medicare Beneficiaries”. Health Affairs. 19(5):186-196, October, 2000.

Rice, T; Snyder, RE; Kominski, J; Pourat, N. “Who Switches from Medigap to Medicare HMOs?” Health Services Research. 37(2):273-290, April 2002.

Pourat, N; Brown, ER; Razack, N; Kassler, W. “Medicaid Managed Care and STDs: Missed Opportunities to Control the Epidemic”.  Health Affairs. 21(3):228-239, May/June 2002.

Pourat, N; Rice, T; Tai-Seale, M; Bolan, G ; Nihalani, J. Impact of Physician Compensation Method on Delivery of Guideline-Concordant STD Care.  American Journal of Managed Care, 11:426-432, July 2005.

Chen, JY; Diamant, AL; Pourat, N; Kagawa-Singer, M. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Preventive Services among the Elderly.  American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 29(5):388-95, December 2005.

Halpin, H; McMenamin, S; Pourat, N; Yelin, E. An Analysis of California Assembly Bill 2185: Mandating Coverage of Pediatric Asthma Self- Management Training and Education. Health Services Research, 41(3 Pt 2):1061-80, June 2006.

Pourat, N; Kominski, JF; Roby, D; Cameron, M.  Physician perceptions of access to quality care in California’s Workers’ Compensation System. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 49(6):618-25, July 2007.

Pourat, N; Kominski, JF; Roby, D; Cameron, M.  Satisfaction with care and perceptions of quality among injured workers in California's Workers’ Compensation system. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 49(11):1249-56, November 2007.

Kagawa Singer, M; Pourat, N; Breen, N; McLaughlin, S; Maclean, T; McNeal, T. Ponce, N; Improving Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening in Diverse Asian American Women in California. Medical Care Research and Review, 64(6):706-30, December 2007.

Pourat, N; Roby, D; Wyn, R; Marcus, M.  Characteristics of Dentists Who Provide Dental Care to Publicly Insured Patients. Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 67(4):208-16, Fall 2007.

Kominski, JF; Pourat, N; Roby, D; Cameron, M.  Return to work and degree of recovery among injured workers in California's Workers' Compensation system. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 50(3):296-305, March 2008.

Pourat, N; Guoyu, T; Walsh, C; “The Association of Insurance Coverage with Chlamydia Screening.” American Journal of Managed Care, 14(4):197-204, April 2008.

Roby, DH; Kominski, GF; Pourat, N. “Assessing the Barriers to Engaging Challenging Populations in Disease Management Programs: The Medicaid Experience.” Disease Management & Health Outcomes, 16(6): 421-428, 2008.

Pourat, N. “Differences in characteristics of California dentists who employ dental hygienists and those who do not.” Journal of American Dental Association, 140(8): 1027-1035, August 2009.

Meng, YY; Pourat, N; Cosway, R; Kominski, GF. “Estimated Cost Impacts of Law to Expand Coverage for Self-management Education to Children with Asthma in California.” Journal of Asthma, 47(5):581-6, June 2010.

Pourat, N; Finocchio, L. “The role of SCHIP and Medicaid in Alleviating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Dental Care Utilization of Young Children”. Health Affairs, 29(7):1356-1363, July 2010.

Roby, DH; Pourat, N.; Pirritano, MJ; Vrungos, SM; Dajee, H; Castillo, D; Kominski, GF;  “Impact of patient-centered medical home assignment on emergency room visits among uninsured patients in a county health system.”  Medical Care Research and Review, 67(4): 412-30, August 2010.