California Program on Access to Care (CPAC)
Created in response to a legislative policy initiative to address health care access for low-income populations.

California Aging Policy Review
Coordinated by CPRC, is assessing California policies, programs, and data sources directed at the state's aging population in response to SB910 (Vasconcellos, Statutes of 1999, Chapter 948).

Welfare Policy Research Project (WPRP)
Created in response to a legislative policy initiative to address welfare issues.

California Asthma Conference
Sponsored by CPRC at the request of the California Department of Health Services and was the first statewide conference on the topic.

CPRC Helps Implement the Nation's First Statewide Environmental Surveillance Program.

In October 2001, Governor Davis signed Senate Bill 702, which declared the legislature's intent to establish an environmental health system to provide systematic, ongoing collection, collation, and analysis of information related to disease and the environment. CPRC and UC Berkeley's Health Research for Action worked with the California Department of Health Services and the California EPA to establish a working group of technical experts to devise possible approaches to establishing such a system, including measurements needed to monitor Californian's health, a database to facilitate examination of the relationship between chronic diseases and the environment over time, and the estimated cost for each approach.

Technical Assistance to Policymakers

At the request of legislators and executive branch officials, CPRC identifies U.S. academic experts and other technical practitioners and helps apply scholarship and best practices to policy deliberations. These activities include facilitating and commissioning data analyses, policy papers, briefings, meetings, roundtable discussions and conferences.

For more information, contact John R. Crapo, CPRC's Associate Director.