Dr. Maria Chao Appointed Director of Research at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health

After a comprehensive national search, ARC for Health Equity Associated Faculty member Maria Chao, DrPH, MPA, has been appointed Director of Research at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health and Osher Foundation Endowed Chair in Research in Integrative Health.

Dr. Chao was chosen to lead the Center’s robust research program, which rigorously tests the effectiveness of integrative health approaches, how they work, and how they can be optimized to improve health and well-being.

Dr. Chao is Co-Director of the Integrative Health Equity and Applied Research summer training program and the Training in Research in Integrative Medicine pre- and postdoctoral research fellowship (both funded by NIH). She received the UCSF Mid-career Development Award for Bolstering the Pipeline to Achieve Health Equity in 2020. 

For more information, please visit the Osher Center’s website.