Center for Vulnerable Populations

ARC for Health Equity Mentored Faculty Member, Melanie Molina, MD, MAS, is the recipient of a Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) Award.

The four-year award will support Dr. Molina’s project, “Developing EHR-Enabled Interventions to Overcome Social Risk Limitations in the Emergency Department (ED).” Through this project, Dr. Molina aims to develop ED-based, electronic health record-enabled tools to address patient social risks with minimal impact on clinician workflow.

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. Oanh Nguyen, a hospital medicine physician deeply committed to advancing care in safety-net settings and serving historically marginalized communities, will soon step into the role of chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at ZSFG!

Our biggest congratulations to Dr. Alicia Fernandez on her recent election to the National Academy of Medicine! Membership in the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, and recognizes Dr. Fernandez's outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

"Black men are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer," says Nynikka Palmer, DrPH, MPH in a recent interview with UCSF News. 

Dr. Palmer is a Core Faculty member if the Action Research Center for Health Equity and currently has a National Cancer Institute-funded career development award to bridge the divide between low-income African American men and equal prostate cancer (PCa) treatment.

Dr. Margot Kushel was presented today with the Lloyd Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service to the UCSF School of Medicine.

"Wherever you look in the U.S., there is a relationship between the availability of low-income housing, income and homelessness."

Dr. Urmimala Sarkar, Associate Director of ARC for Health Equity, Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Associate Chair for Faculty Experience for the Department of Medicine, and Primary Care Physician at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital’s Richard H.