Arturo Vargas Bustamante, PhD, MA, MPP

Assistant Professor, Department of Health Service
UCLA School of Public Health

Arturo Vargas Bustamante is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health. His areas of expertise are cross-border health care and Latino health. His work considers the role of international migration and immigrant integration in affecting access to health care in host countries, particularly in the United States. Arturo got his PhD in Public Policy from UC-Berkeley in 2008. He specialized in program evaluation and in contingent valuation. As part of his professional experience, he worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and for the California Program on Access to Care, where he was responsible for the cross-border health insurance project. Arturo started his professional career in the Health Financing Administration of the Mexican Ministry of Health. In 2002, he became the youngest recipient of the National Award of Public Administration Research in Mexico.

Selected Publications

Willingness to Pay for Cross-Border Health Insurance between the U.S. and Mexico?, Health Affairs, 27 (1), 2008, pp. 169-178.

(With Miriam Laugesen) ?A Framework that Travels Well: Conceptualising Cross-Border Health Care?

(with Hai Fang, Alex Ortega and John Rizzo) "Heterogeneity in Health Insurance Coverage among US Latino Adults" (forthcoming in the Journal of General Internal Medicine)

with Hai Fang, Alex Ortega and John Rizzo) ?Understanding Observed and Unobserved Health Care Access and Utilization disparities Among U.S. Latino Adults? (forthcoming in Medical Care Research Review)