The Chancellor’s Health Policy Lecture Series was initiated in 2006 to bring outstanding health policy leaders to UCSF to highlight the important role that health policy plays in the lives of UCSF faculty, fellows, residents and students. The series reflects how all activities represented within the UCSF community (research, training, clinical service, community outreach) exist within a complicated health policy context. At the same time, researchers at UCSF can and do have an impact on health policy issues through informing health policy decision-makers.
Starting with the first lecture in 2006, our speakers have included:
Nadine Burke Harris, MD, California Surgeon General 2020
Applying the Science of Toxic Stress to Transform Outcomes in California
Drew Altman, PhD 2019
The Pulse of the Public on Health Policy and Politics
Robert M. Califf, MD, MACC 2018
Improving Health in the Era of Ubiquitous Information: The Role of Health Policy
Hal V. Barron MD 2017
Innovation In Science and Medicine: Potential Implications for Health Policy?
Mitchell H. Katz, MD 2015
Local Health Departments as Laboratories for Policy Change
George Halvorson 2014
Building the Culture of an Organization in Ten Basic Steps
Thomas A. Daschle 2012
A New Paradigm for Health Care in America
JudyAnn Bigby 2011
The Massachusetts health reform experience
Mark McClellan 2010
Health care reform: Now what? Medical innovation, cost control and health
Sidney Wolfe 2009
Investigating research-based advocacy concerning prescription drugs and other topics
Julie Gerberding 2008
Rescuing health and the economy from crises
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey 2008
Childhood obesity
John (Jack) Rowe 2007
Health care costs and coverage
Uwe Reinhardt 2007
Health care costs and coverage
Judith Mackay 2007
Role of the tobacco industry in the worldwide epidemic of smoking
Jeffrey Drazen 2006
Complications and controversy related to industry-sponsored research