Kimberly Narain, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.

A Short Biography:

Dr. Narain completed her residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Following residency she completed a California Endowment Minority Health Policy Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. As a California Endowment Scholar she worked with the Institute of Urban Health Research to evaluate the impact of place-based housing infrastructure interventions on health outcomes. After leaving Harvard, she completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship at UCLA. During this fellowship she served as an intern for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy and conducted research projects evaluating the implementation of a municipal healthy vending machine policy and examining the effects of socioeconomic status on weight gain. Upon completion of this fellowship Dr. Narain stayed on at UCLA as a Specialty Training Advanced Research Fellow in the Department of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research and earned a Ph.D. in Health Services from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Her dissertation work explored how changing eligibility requirements and the imposition of time limits for cash transfer programs impacted the access to health care and health of single mothers. Prior to joining the faculty in the Department of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research at UCLA Dr. Narain was an Advanced Health Services Research Fellow in the West Los Angeles VA Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy. Broadly, she has an interest in evaluating the implications of health and social policies for health equity among women, individuals with low socioeconomic status and racial/ethnic minorities.


Work Titles
UCLA Assistant Professor In-Residence, General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
Education:
Degrees:
M.D.
Ph.D.
M.P.H.

Contact Information:

Email Address:

knarain@mednet.ucla.edu


Publications:

A selected list of publications:

Narain Kimberly, Ettner Susan   The Impact of Exceeding TANF Time Limits on the Access to Healthcare of Low-Income Mothers Social work in public health, 2017; 32(7): 452-460.
Narain Kimberly, Bitler Marianne, Ponce Ninez, Kominski Gerald, Ettner Susan   The impact of welfare reform on the health insurance coverage, utilization and health of low education single mothers Social science & medicine (1982), 2017; 180: 28-35.
Narain Kimberly Danae, Katz Marian Lisa   Experiences with Health Insurance and Health Care in the Context of Welfare Reform Health & social work, 2016; 41(4): 244-252.
Narain Kimberly, Mata Alfred, Flores Jeanette   Nutrition Policy Decreases Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Municipal Parks: Lessons Learned From Carson, California Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP, 2016; 22(4): 392-4.
Cauley Kimberly D, Feldman Mitchell D   Is all that fluctuates delirium? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2010; 103(9): 376-8.

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