University of California San Francisco
Hospitals in areas with large minority populations are more likely to be overcrowded and to divert ambulances, delaying timely emergency care, according to a multi-institutional study focused on California.
<p>Andrea Lopez knows that she could easily be doomed by her demographic: She is 17, Latina and the mother of a baby boy. But UCSF's Science Education & Health Partnership's internship program has helped her prove otherwise.</p>
Is it possible for a health care system to redesign its services to better educate patients to deal with their immediate health issues and also become more savvy consumers of medicine in the long run?
<p>When Rochelle Dicker, MD, was a UCSF intern, she cared for a 16-year-old boy who had been shot as a result of gang violence. He was eventually discharged, but returned to the emergency room a few weeks later after he was shot again. Today, Dicker directs a program that has proven to save lives.</p>
UCSF's Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) pairs teachers with UCSF researchers and graduate students to create rich classroom experiences through explorations in biology and chemistry to K-12 students in San Francisco's schools.
The Daly Ralston Resource Center at UCSF’s Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) offers teachers the opportunity to check out science materials – ranging from curriculum kits to real human specimens – for their science classes.
More than 80 volunteers and staff from UCSF spent an early Saturday morning at the San Francisco Marathon keeping the runners safe from start to finish.
UCSF's PlaySafe program has provided free sports medicine care to Bay Area high school students since 2002. By combining cardiac evaluations with annual physicals, the program aims to reduce the risk of sudden athlete death.
On the second Saturday of every month, UCSF students spend their day in downtown San Francisco learning how to provide culturally competent health care.
The annual summit brings together more than 250 young women from 20 schools for a day to discuss issues most important to them. Topics ranged from building self esteem, avoiding teen pregnancy, and preparing for college life.
Led by UCSF family medicine and pediatric residents as well as financially savvy volunteers, the Financial Fitness Clinic improves people’s health and well-being through financial education.
Children Receive Dental Services and Education at UCSF
Close to 300 UCSF walkers were among an estimated 25,000 walkers who have raised more than $3 million to benefit HIV/AIDS services in the Bay Area, including some at UCSF. This year's UCSF team surpassed the fundraising goal of $55,000.
Every Wednesday afternoon, nurse Teresa Corrigan leads a series of laughter and breathing exercises at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine to improve health.
Experienced elementary school teachers partner with UCSF scientists to teach fellow elementary school instructors how to bring science into classrooms during the UCSF Science & Health Education Partnership's (SEP) City Science Summer Institute.
UCSF's Excellence through Community Engagement and Learning (EXCEL) program helps the unemployed get back to work with opportunities for employment experience in administrative support positions around UCSF.
Patients gather at the GLIDE Health Clinic to participate in a research-based program that works through the dual challenges of living with diabetes and mental illness.
Through events such as this summer high school tour of a computer graphics lab at UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus, scientists can share their work and spur students interest in science.
The Program for Investigation and Training for Careers in Health (PITCH) is a free, three-week summer opportunity for rising high school juniors in the San Francisco Unified School District.
The UCSF Science & Health Education Partnership's (SEP) High School Summer Internship program prepares students for college through hands-on laboratory experience alongside a mentor.
For the past three years, UCSF has joined in partnership with community volunteers and the Recreation and Parks Department to restore a trail on Mt. Sutro that had been closed to the public for nearly half a century.
The San Francisco Hepatitis B Collaborative offers free screenings for Hepatitis B (Hep B) and low cost vaccinations for community members every other Saturday at the Chinatown Public Health Center.
Four distinct murals commissioned by the UCSF Medical Center will be installed on the perimeter fence of the new children’s, women's, and cancer hospitals under construction in Mission Bay.