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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)
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)
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UCI News, September 23, 2024

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

"The NSF BEST program will introduce students to the concept of team science and provide skills training at multiple stages of each participant’s journey. The outcomes will be rigorously studied and evaluated to perfect training in the knowledge, skills and values to collaboratively solve health inequities with technology." (Jason Douglas)
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)
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)
Dylan Roby
Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2022

Coronavirus Today: Quantifying COVID-19’s death toll

"It appears that voting behavior acts as a proxy for compliance with and support for public health measures, vaccine uptake, and the likelihood of engaging in riskier behaviors (for example, unmasked social events and in-person dining) that could affect disease spread and mortality," (Dylan Roby)