The California Health Benefits Review Program (CHBRP) was established in 2002 to provide sound scientific and independent evidence relevant to proposed health insurance benefit mandates and repeals. Dylan Roby, PhD, interim chair and associate professor of health, society, & behavior with the UCI Program in Public Health, along with 14 other faculty members from across the University of California system, was selected to be on a Task Force that is charged with providing analyses of proposed California health insurance legislation.
This committee operates with a two-pronged approach, which is to:
- Completes each analysis during a 60-day period, usually before the California Legislature begins formal consideration of a mandate bill.
- A National Advisory Council, made up of experts from outside the state of California, designed to provide balanced representation among groups with an interest in health insurance benefit mandates, reviews the committee’s draft studies to assure their quality before they are transmitted to the Legislature.
Each report summarizes sound scientific evidence relevant to the proposed mandate but does not make recommendations, deferring policy decision-making to the Legislature.
Our elected leaders are starting to understand the need to move legislation toward evidence-based population health,” says Roby. “My role in the committee is to address social determinants of health so that our legislators can respond to changing incentives in our health care system.”
– Dylan Roby, PhD
“Our elected leaders are starting to understand the need to move legislation toward evidence-based population health,” says Roby. “My role in the committee is to address social determinants of health so that our legislators can respond to changing incentives in our health care system.”
Roby is a leading expert in the field of health policy and insurance markets with over 25 years of expertise in health policy research, reform, and capacity-building in settings from Capitol Hill to academia. He has dedicated his career to addressing disparities in health care outcomes and focuses his research primarily on the health policy impacts on underserved populations, namely those served by public hospitals, community health centers, and Medi-Cal.
