Center for Vulnerable Populations
The Postgenomic Condition: Truth, Race and Justice After the Genome
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Date: Tuesday, August 7th, 2018 |
CVP Director Margot Kushel wins 2018 Hal Luft Mentoring Award
We are delighted to announce that Margot Kushel, MD has been selected as this year's recipient of the Harold S. Luft Award for Mentoring in Health Services and Health Policy Research, awarded by the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.
STEP UP Grand Rounds
In San Francisco, the black population is significantly less healthy than other groups in the city; this community is also disproportionately impoverished. Medical practitioners are often taught that both race and class are important determinants of health outcomes, however we are not often taught about why this is the case. Come hear one physician's perspective on how American policies have created a crisis of Black poverty and ill-health in our city.
CVP welcomes new Director, Margot Kushel, MD
Margot Kushel, MD has been announced as the new Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations (CVP) at Zuckerberg San Francisco General and Trauma Center (ZSFG).
Pathways to Policy Playbook for youth who want to change the world
The Bigger Picture has released the Pathways to Policy Playbook to help young people and adult youth advocates and educators work to change policies and better their communities. This step-by-step guide, created in partnership with UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, ChangeLab Solutions, Youth Leadership Institute, and
Antwi Akom, PhD, MA
Professor
William Brown, PhD, DrPH, MA
Assistant Professor
Adrian Aguilera, PhD
Associate Adjunct Professor
UCSF RISE Symposium
The UCSF Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE) program invites you to join us for a special symposium on Monday July 9thto kick off our 2018 Summer Institute and celebrate the fourth year of the program. We hope you will be able to join us in warmly welcoming the RISE scholars and alumni to UCSF and celebrating their accomplishments. Light refreshments and drinks will be served.
Helping Women thrive in Medical Leadership
Christina Mangurian, MD, and Urmimala Sarkar, MD, outline structural solutions to disparities in medical school leadership in the Harvard Business Review -- What’s Holding Women in Medicine Back from Leadership.