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Sarah Nathan, PhD, MS, FNP

Associate Professor
School of Nursing
2 Koret Way, #431B
San Francisco, CA 94143
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Sarah Nathan
Education and Training

University of California, San Francisco,San Francisco, RN - 06/2006 Masters Entry Program in Nursing

University of California, San Francisco,San Francisco, MS, FNP - 06/2008 Family Nurse Practitioner

University of California, San Francisco,San Francisco 2008 Leadership and Education in Adolescent Health Nurse Traineeship

University of California, San Francisco,San Francisco, PhD - 03/2024 Nursing, health policy

Overview
Sarah Nathan is an associate clinical professor in the UCSF School of Nursing, Family Health Care Nursing Department. Since joining the faculty, she has combined her passion for teaching with her dedication to community clinic health care.

Her faculty practice is at La Clinica, a Federally Qualified Health Center in the Easy Bay, serving a low income and immigrant population. Her clinical practice site is the young adult and adolescent clinic that provides primary and prenatal care for adolescents and young adults and pediatric care for their children.

She is passionate about young adult/adolescent health and sexual, reproductive health both in the United States and abroad. Connecting individualized care to larger structural and policy changes in health care is an important motivator of her work.

Her doctoral research focuses on how socio-contextual facotrs impact personal pregnacy desires and how these pregnancy preferences impact contraceptive use or non-use among youth.