Mission: Health Equity

Welcome to Mission: Health Equity!

Who We Are: Faculty from the Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) who are based at San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center (SFGH), the city's public hospital.
For more information about the Department of General Internal Medicine, click here, and SFGH, here.

What We Care About: We are interested in issues that affect vulnerable populations.  The population we serve is "vulnerable" because our patients struggle with poverty, inadequate housing, food insecurity, lack of health coverage, trauma and violence, and poor health literacy.  These forces often result in striking health disparities, or unequal health outcomes.  Our mission is to use research, advocacy, education, and outstanding clinical care to achieve equitable health outcomes.  Additionally, we seek to identify and harness individual and community resilience factors that strengthen communities.
We strongly value primary care and multidisciplinary, team-based care for our patients, and are excited by the current climate of primary care transformation.  We closely collaborate with specialty colleagues to provide comprehensive care to our patients.

What We Will Post: 

• Commentary on medical, public health, and social science research related to vulnerable populations 
• Opinions on health policy related to underserved groups
• Updates on innovations in medical education oficiency, and poor health literacy.  These forces often result in striking health disparities, or unequal health outcomes.  Our mission is to use research, advocacy, education, and outstanding clinical care to achieve equitable health outcomes.  Additionally, we seek to identify and harness individual and community resilience factors that strengthen communities.