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.
