County Of LOS Angeles

County of Los Angeles operates exclusively as a sub-recipient on federal research grants, contributing in-kind personnel resources to health services research programs funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The county is a U.S. local government entity (not a for-profit or small-business vendor) with no prime contract awardees and no direct federal contracting vehicle participation in the source data.

The county's federal award footprint consists of three sub-awards totaling $96 thousand in obligated dollars, all from a single customer agency: the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse (100% of awards). All three sub-awards flow through the University of California, Los Angeles as the prime grantee, with substantively identical scope across the awards. In each engagement, Dr. Fei Wu, a Program Specialist IV (Senior Data Scientist) in the Chief Executive Office, Chief Information Office at Los Angeles County, contributes data analysis, large administrative dataset integration, and cloud-based analytics expertise to research on social determinants of health related to substance use disorders. Dr. Wu allocates 16% of her annual salary (one day per week) to each project and collaborates on findings interpretation, publication, dissemination, and translation of research into actionable county-level insights.

Sub-awards are dated February 1, 2024; November 6, 2024; and August 18, 2025. Activity through the source window reflects two awards in 2024 and one in 2025. The county's role is narrowly scoped to research support and data science contribution under UCLA prime grantees, with no contracting, procurement, or vendor-management footprint visible in the federal award record.