Olivia Waters smiles and stands outside the Clinical Sciences Building at UCSF’s Parnassus Heights campus.

Human Interest

Breaking Through

A transformative program is lifting up communities, one future doctor at a time.

Portrait of Ryan Hernandez

Ask the Expert

Five Questions for Ryan Hernandez

Illustrated portrait of Amber Bell

Alumni Stories

Amber Bell, MS ’19, CNM: Returning an Age-Old Vocation to its Roots

Illustrated portrait of Abdikarin Abdullahi

Alumni Stories

Abdikarin Abdullahi, MD ’23: Increasing Equity in Med School Admissions

Portrait of Heather Hervey-Jumper

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Five Questions for Heather Hervey-Jumper

Illustration of a female physician holding a man’s hands. The man has scars on his arms and barbed wire comes from behind his chair.

Human Interest

The Body Tells the Story

Portrait of Biftu Mengesha

Health

Preparing for a Post-Roe America

Photo of Amend director Brie Williams, MD (center), with San Quentin State Prison medical chief Alison Pachynski, MD ’02 (left), and Amend team members Fernando Murillo, Michele Casadei, and Daryl Norcott, JD.

Human Interest

Norway’s Humane Approach to Prisons Can Work Here Too

Portrait of Diane Havlir

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Five Questions for Diane Havlir

Collage photo illustration of a photo of a black woman, graph paper, charts and graphs symbols, dna symbol, Rx symbol, pen scribbles, and the anatomy of a human heart.

Health

What’s Wrong (and Right) With Race in Medicine

Photo of Kim Rhoads with staff members of Umoja Health Partners at a vaccine clinic.

Ask the Expert

Uniting the Black Community to Defeat COVID

Photo collage with broken glass: run down buildings and a small child in front of a graffitied wall.

Human Interest

Poor Health

Portrait of Margot Kushel

Ask the Expert

A Crisis-on-Top-of-a-Crisis: Homelessness in the Time of COVID-19

UCSF Nurses gather in Oakland for a Black Health Matters protest; a male Black nurse in a white coat and face mask stands with female nurses, holding a sign that reads “Abolish” in graffiti style; a large mural of George Floyd’s portrait is in the background.

Health

An Epidemic of Inequality

Photo illustration of a map of the United States, made out of pills; most of the pills are white, with only a few black and red pills.

Human Interest

White Wash

Photo of barbers Joseph Peters, seated in a barber’s chair, and Terell Kennedy standing behind the chair, with two women standing in a barber shop.

Health

Haircuts Plus Health Care

Conceptual photo illustration of cut-outs of George Washington on the dollar bill, cells, hypodermic needs, grids, lines, boxes, number, and pills.

Health

Who Will Benefit From Precision Medicine?

Portrait of Howard Pinderhughes with blue skies, trees, and foliage in the background.

Ask the Expert

Why We Need a “Radical Investment in SF’s Future”

Illustration of Madalene Mandap.

Alumni Stories

Madalene Mandap, PharmD ’12: Hand in hand with Alaska Native people on the journey toward health

Illustration of Francisco Alvarez.

Alumni Stories

Francisco Alvarez, MS ’19, RN: Caring for kids with COVID complications

Illustration of Kimberly Baltzell.

Alumni Stories

Kimberly Baltzell, RN, PhD ’05, MS ’10: Supporting nurses so giving birth is safe for all women

Portrait of Alicia Catanese in nurse’s scrubs.

Frontliners

Lending a Hand in the Navajo Nation

Portrait of Joseph Kidane.

Frontliners

Not Yet A Doctor but Still Finding Ways to Serve

Portrait of Kenny Banh in an N95 mask and goggles, inside a tent.

Frontliners

Healing the San Joaquin Valley

Illustration of silhouettes of two people touching foreheads, with a coronavirus symbol above them.

Human Interest

When Telehealth Came to the Tenderloin

Photo of Richard Feng, MD, in front of a mural of painted dragons, in Chinatown, San Francisco.

Human Interest

Mental Health on the Margins

Portrait of Matthew State, MD, PhD, sitting at a black table with his hands folded, resting on the table, in front of a blank black background.

Ask the Expert

The Crisis in Our City

Daniel Ciccarone stands on a city street.

Human Interest

Streets of Pain

Illustration of part of a gun shown in black over a red background; inside the trigger area is an eye on a blue background; the blue drips from the gun.

Human Interest

Beyond the Bullet

Illustration of a silhouette of the profile of a human head in black on a blue background; the head is split down the middle from the back to the eye; the outline of guns is seen throughout the head.

Human Interest

Addressing Violence as a National Disease

Illustration of a repeating pattern of boxes that read “Sugar Shock.”

Health

Sugar’s Sick Secrets

Anthony Orosco adjusts his jacket and stands in front of cherry blossom trees.

Perspectives

Empty Plate

Oliver Bishop with drumline equipment at his high school track field.

Health

Free To Be He, She, They

doctor talks with man in a hotel doorway

Perspectives

Capturing a Pandemic Moment

Photo of Monica McLemore.

Alumni Stories

Monica McLemore, PhD ’10: Demanding quality reproductive health care for all

Photo of Jirayut Latthivongskorn at the UCSF Library.

Perspectives

A Remarkable “New” American

A resident wearing a face mask in Chinatown, San Francisco, is transporting groceries on a bike during the shelter-at-home Covid-19 crisis.

Health

Backlash: Anti-Asian Racism Escalates During COVID-19

Two newborn babies wrapped up in blankets in Malawi.

Human Interest

Tackling Childbirth-Related Mortality in the World’s Poorest Place

Members of the School of Pharmacy’s Science Squad (in red) deliver a lesson on circuitry to kids at Rosa Parks Elementary School.

Human Interest

Depth of Field