Roby – UC Irvine Wen Public Health

California Healthline, January 22, 2025

Covered California Hits Record Enrollment, but Key Subsidies in Jeopardy

"You end up with people’s out-of-pocket spending probably being lower than we’ve seen. That doesn’t necessarily mean that premiums are going down. It just means that the state or federal government is paying a larger share of premiums on behalf of enrollees than before." (Dylan Roby)

LAist, October 9, 2024

At Cal State Dominguez Hills, students are connecting other students to health services

"The peer kind of advocate model might be really effective, and I think it's important that student health has a role in that. The challenge is that health care is provided to college students in different locations from residence halls to urgent care and hospitals, and student health centers could be good places to follow up with students because the centers are on campus." (Dylan Roby)

The Scholar's Journal, October 8, 2024

Health Care Specialist: Navigating Healthcare Amongst Diverse Equity Issues

"Generally immigrants, people with lower English proficiency, people who are lower income, people who are from underrepresented minority do worse in our healthcare system than their white citizen higher income counterparts who often have better insurance coverage, live in areas that have access to healthier foods and resources." (Dylan Roby)

LAist, September 26, 2024

California Proposition 35: Extending a tax to fund health care

"You're using that tax to draw down federal dollars that will increase the budget, allow you to pay the plans higher premiums to take care of the Medi-Cal population, and then those plans are supposed to take those premiums and pay better reimbursement, down to the providers and their network,” and that improves health care for low-income residents" (Dylan Roby)

UCI News, September 23, 2024

UC Irvine grad student training program aims to broaden access to cardiovascular care

"The National Science Foundation has awarded an interdisciplinary team at UC Irvine $3 million to launch a Biomedical Engineering Social Science Training initiative for graduate students to develop a next-generation workforce. " (Dylan Roby)

The Sacramento Bee, September 18, 2024

CalPERS health premium rates are increasing again. How much will insurance cost?

"Most employer plans are probably seeing similar increases. CalPERS premium costs are comparable to others in the employer-based health insurance market specially considering that the state offers high levels of coverage for services and pretty expansive benefits." (Dylan Roby)

Montana Public Radio, August 27, 2024

Federally subsidized health insurance could be impacted by upcoming election

"The number of Montanans enrolled in federally subsidized health insurance plans over the past four years increased by about 50%, or about 22,000 people. The growth is attributed to enhanced subsidies during the pandemic. But those are set to expire at the end of next year." (Dylan Roby)

KCBS Radio, April 12, 2023

President Biden signs resolution ending COVID national emergency

"President Biden has signed a congressional resolution ending the US National emergency that was taken up three years ago, a little less than a month before it was set to expire. This comes as the White House also announces it will be launching a $5 billion program to speed-up innovation for COVID vaccines, showing the administration's efforts to take the US into the next generation of the pandemic. For more on this KCBS Radio's Eric Thomas and Margie Shafer spoke with Dylan Roby, [associate] professor of Health, Society, & Behavior at UC Irvine." (Dylan Roby)

Health, September 16, 2022

Forehead Thermometers May Be Less Likely to Detect Fevers in Black Patients, Study Shows

"While the intent of device manufacturers is not to harm patients, the impact of having misleading numbers for their pulse oximeter or thermometer results can be harmful for Black patients when it comes to health outcomes." (Dylan Roby)

Academic Minute, September 14, 2022

The Association Between COVID-19 Mortality and the County-Level Partisan Divide in the United States

"A leading expert in health policy, Dylan H. Roby, PhD, associate professor of health, society, and behavior at the University of California, Irvine Program in Public Health, has over 25 years of expertise in health policy research, reform, and capacity-building in settings from Capitol Hill to academia." (Dylan Roby)