Sunita Mutha, MD, is Professor of Medicine in Division of General Internal Medicine, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Dentistry and directs Healthforce Center at UCSF. Healthforce Center is a nationally recognized resource for health workforce research and policy analysis and impactful capacity building programs that develop and connect change agents to ensure progress toward to equitable care.
Dr. Mutha’s scholarly work has focused on interventions to overcome language barriers in care delivery, interventions to address disparities in care, and program evaluation. She has served on several national committees including the Joint Commission’s Expert Advisory Panel guiding the development of hospital standards for culturally competent patient-centered care, the National Quality Forum’s Cultural Competence Steering Committee, and Millbank Fund’s advisory committee developing a scorecard to measure the implementation of high-quality primary care. She has previously served on the board of directors for Brown and Toland Medical Group, a comprehensive, multi-specialty independent practice association in the Bay Area, and currently chairs the board of directors of Insure the Uninsured Project, a non-profit that promotes innovative and workable policy solutions that expand health care access and improve the health of all Californians and Physicians for Health California which is dedicated to improving community health, growing a diverse physician workforce and promoting health equity.