UCLA Newsroom, Feb. 26, 2008 LOS ANGELES - The UCLA Department of Family Medicine, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has launched the Network for Multicultural Research on Health and Healthcare, a group that will study health care disparities affecting minorities with chronic diseases. The network's senior investigators include Kyriakos Markides, director of the division of sociomedical sciences in UTMB's department of preventive medicine and community health