Roberto B. Vargas

Biography

Roberto Vargas is a natural scientist at RAND and a clinical instructor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His research interests examine the role of access to health care and variation in health policies on population level health. As part of the ICICE project he is investigating the impact of the chronic care model breakthrough series on cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes. He is also a co-principle investigator of a RAND research team examining interventions to reduce racial, ethnic, and poverty driven disparities in breast cancer care. In addition he is is examining the impact of state specific health policies on health outcomes in a national sample of Medicaid enrollees and the role of access to care and health policies on disparities in health in patients in California. Dr. Vargas is also examining the impact of chronic kidney disease on population health and health disparities as part of the NCRR/NIH Comprehensive Center for Health Disparities for Chronic Kidney Disease.