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Ninez Ponce, Ph.D.
	Affiliations: Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Public Health, Health Services Assistant Professor, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Education and Training:

University of California, Berkeley	B.S.	1984	Nutrition & Food Sciences
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA	M.P.P.	1999	Public Policy/ International Development
University of California, Los Angeles	Ph.D.	1998	Health Services/ Health Economics
University of California, Berkeley	Pos-Doctoral Training	1999	Health Policy

About Dr. Ponce:

Ninez Ponce is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health and a senior research scientist at the Center. She is also a research consultant at RAND.

Dr. Ponce's current research interests include developing innovative approaches to expand insurance markets to cover low-income immigrant populations and increasing prevention and screening services use among linguistic and ethnic minorities. Prior to joining the Center and the UCLA Public Health faculty, she was Deputy Director and Survey Research Manager for the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum. Most recently, she served as RAND's resident Policy Adviser on health insurance reforms to the Ministry of Health, Republic of Macedonia. Trained in health economics and empirical modeling of policy issues, Dr. Ponce is also an expert in developing sampling methodologies for small populations, particularly Asian American and Pacific Islander subgroups.

She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, her Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University, her doctorate from UCLA.

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