OUR PEOPLE
Education and Training
Brown University,Providence, RI, BA - 1986 Comparative Literature
Yale School of Medicine,New Haven, CT, M.D. - 1991 Medicine
Harvard School of Public Health,Boston, MA, MPH - 1994 Occupational Health
Mount Auburn Hospital,Cambridge, MA 1995 Internal Medicine
Harvard University,Boston, MA 1996 Occupational Medicine
Awards and Honors
Phi Beta Kappa, Rhode Island Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1986
Will Solimene Award in Medical Writing, American Medical Writers Association, 2000
Environmental Heroes Award, The Breast Cancer Fund, 2002
Ten Women's Health Pioneers, The Green Guide, 2004
Certificate of Appreciation, California Safe Schools, 2004
Clean Air Award for Research, American Lung Association of the Bay Area, 2004
Certificate of Appreciation, Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, 2007
Recognition Award, Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, 2009
Damu Smith Environmental Achievement Award, American Public Health Association, 2012
Faculty Sustainability Award, UCSF, 2015
Essential Core Teaching Award (Elective), UCSF, 2015
James G. Wilson Publication Award, Teratology Society, 2016
Certificate of Recognition, City of Los Angeles, 2016
Certificate of Recognition, California State Assembly, 2016
Humanitarian Award, California Safe Schools, 2016
Elected Member, Sigma Xi, 2020
Birth Defects Research Distinguished Scholar Award, Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention, 2021
Jean Spencer Felton Award for Excellence in Medical Writing, Western Occupational and Environmental Medical Association, 2023
Overview
Gina Solomon, M.D., M.P.H. is the Chief of the Division of Occupational, Environmental and Climate Medicine at UCSF. In this role she oversees clinical occupational and environmental health at UCSF Health, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center. She is also the Program Director of the UCSF Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency program, teaches medical and nursing students, and leads the research efforts in the Division.
Before coming to UCSF, Dr. Solomon founded and directed the Achieving Resilient Communities program at the Public Health Institute, where she worked from 2018-2023. From 2012-2018 she was appointed by Governor Brown as the Deputy Secretary for Science and Health at the California Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Solomon previously served as the director of the occupational and environmental medicine residency program at UCSF from 2008-2012, the associate director of the UCSF Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit from 2003-2009, and as a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) from 1996-2012.
Dr. Solomon’s research has encompassed cumulative impacts of environmental and social stressors in disadvantaged communities, environmental justice, farmworker health, new approach methodologies in toxicology and risk assessment, drinking water quality, air pollution, endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticides, environmental contaminants in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and in communities after wildfires, the health implications of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, and the health effects of climate change. Currently, Dr. Solomon is Chair of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Advisory Council.
Before coming to UCSF, Dr. Solomon founded and directed the Achieving Resilient Communities program at the Public Health Institute, where she worked from 2018-2023. From 2012-2018 she was appointed by Governor Brown as the Deputy Secretary for Science and Health at the California Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Solomon previously served as the director of the occupational and environmental medicine residency program at UCSF from 2008-2012, the associate director of the UCSF Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit from 2003-2009, and as a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) from 1996-2012.
Dr. Solomon’s research has encompassed cumulative impacts of environmental and social stressors in disadvantaged communities, environmental justice, farmworker health, new approach methodologies in toxicology and risk assessment, drinking water quality, air pollution, endocrine disrupting chemicals, pesticides, environmental contaminants in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and in communities after wildfires, the health implications of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, and the health effects of climate change. Currently, Dr. Solomon is Chair of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Advisory Council.