Interventions for Underserved Communities: UCR investigators have led national teams that are examining a number of public health issues in underserved populations, including vaccination programs, opioid abuse, and health care access. Dr. Robert Rodriguez, the associate dean of clinical and population health research at the UC Riverside SOM served as the lead author of a national emergency department-based vaccination surveillance study published in the premier public health journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports.