Center on Social Disparities in Health University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)/Berkeley San Francisco, California

The Center on Social Disparities in Health provides a nexus for collaborations among a large number of distinguished faculties with expertise in multiple disciplines relevant to social disparities in health. Center faculty include: those based at UCSF as well as collaborating faculty at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley) and Stanford University. These faculties have a long-standing, demonstrated commitment to studying and addressing social disparities in health.

Major themes of research projects at the Center on Social Disparities in Health are:

• measuring and understanding socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care

• developing and applying rigorous methods not only for time-limited research but also for ongoing, policy-oriented monitoring of social disparities

• understanding the social and social policy determinants of health disparities, including factors operating at the neighborhood or community level, in a life-course perspective

Site Director: Paula Braveman, MD, MPH
Professor of Family and Community Medicine; Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health
Co-Director: S. Leonard Syme, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Berkely); Director, Center on Community Wellness

Other core faculty associated with the program include:
Nancy Adler, Professor, Medical Psychology; Director, Center for Health and Community
Phillipe Bourgeois, Professor and Chair, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Meredith Minkler, Professor, Community Health Education and Health & Social Behavior, Berkeley
Arthur Reingold, Professor, Epidemiology; Head, Division of Public Health Biology and Epidemiology, Berkeley
Marilyn Winkleby, Associate Professor, Medicine, Stanford
Catherine Cubbin, Research Associate, Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention.

For more information please contact Paula Braveman (pbrave@itsa.ucsf.edu) or Leonard Syme (slsyme@uclink4.berkeley.edu) via e-mail or visit the Center on Social Disparities in Health web site: here.