The City Project Team

Michael Rodriguez, M.D., Board Member

Michael A. Rodríguez, MD, MPH, is Professor, Vice Chair of Research and George F. Kneller Endowed Chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is Director of the Multicultural Research Network on Health and Health Care and Associate Director of the UCLA Primary Care Research Fellowship. 

Dr. Rodríguez was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, attended medical school at UCLA, and completed his family medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He obtained his public health degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University, and a Picker/Commonwealth Scholar at UCSF.

As a committed advocate for the underserved, Dr. Rodríguez also has expertise in the principles of community-based participatory research and the development of initiatives focused on improving the health and health care of individuals and families in low income communities. Dr. Rodríguez also teaches UCLA residents and medical students while volunteering weekly at a community health center serving uninsured patients in Los Angeles.

Dr. Rodriguez is a leading researcher and policy expert in the areas of the role of the health care system in addressing intimate partner violence and the health care needs of Latino populations across the age spectrum. He has published widely and lectured internationally on the topics of violence prevention, medical education, and the care of chronic diseases for patients in safety net settings. Dr. Rodríguez has been a violence prevention consultant with UNICEF, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He served on the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence.