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Naomi Bardach Receives the Academic Senate Distinction In Mentoring Award

While the UCSF Academic Senate acknowledges that due to COVID-19, the clinical enterprise at UCSF is of upmost importance at this time, we also wanted to recognize the efforts of teaching and mentoring accomplished by four UCSF faculty who were selected as this year’s recipients of the Distinction...

Video: 7th Annual Global Health Economics Colloquium

Medicare For All: How to Do It Right"  Single payer / Medicare-for-All is newly on the national political agenda. Two leading Democratic presidential candidates support it. Yet transforming how we pay for health care is a major task. If Medicare-for-All is adopted, how can we best design it to...

Osher Mini-Medical School - Improving Health Outside the Hospital Walls

Osher Mini-Medical School - Improving Health Outside the Hospital Walls  Janet Coffman, Chair Feb 13, - March 19, 2020: 7 - 8:30 pm, N-225, Parnassus campus,Download schedule and registration:   

UCSF 2020 Class of Deans' Population Health and Health Equity (PHHE) Scholars in the School of Medicine Selected

Congratulations to the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies faculty members Alissa Bernstein and Cristin Kearns along with their colleagues who have been selected as the 2020 Class of Deans' Population Health and Health Equity (PHHE) Scholars. These awards are made to junior faculty...

UC professors fail to report outside income, shortchanging the university system

Five UC medical schools — those at San Francisco, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego — account for the majority of the university system’s health sciences faculty, and each maintains its own system for monitoring conflicts of interest and commitment, which occurs when outside activities pull...

GRACE Initiative: Rediscovering UCSF community

GRACE Initiative (part 2): Rediscovering UCSF community, Dr. Mohsen Malekinejad, Director of GRACE and an assistant professor at the Philip R.

UCSF Library Data Science Initiative

UCSF Library Data Science Initiative Presented by: Ariel Deardorff, MLIS Data Services Librarianhttps://www.library.ucsf.edu/ask-an-expert/data-science/https://courses.ucsf.edu/course/index.php?categoryid=499

The UCSF Population Health Data Initiative: New Research Resources

The UCSF Population Health Data Initiative: New Research Resources Presented by: Rita Hamad, MD, PhD PHDI Faculty Lead for Research Resourceshttps://pophealth.ucsf.edu/population-health-data-initiative Link to slide deck: 

Blue Shield of California funds mental health workers in schools

Amid growing concern about mental health among teens, Oakland health insurer Blue Shield of California has committed $10 million to improve access to mental health services in the state’s public schools.

Finding the Right Care in the Right Place at the Right Time

A program to aid Stanislaus County, California transports individuals having a mental health crisis to a crisis center for prompt, appropriate treatment.