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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.
The UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health supports student-designed health and wellness programs across San Francisco, including a mentor group and yoga classes at George Washington High School.
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.
<p>Women’s health is marking a significant milestone Wednesday, as a law requiring health insurance plans to provide new preventive care benefits officially takes effect.</p>
As mothers have always known, a good night’s sleep is crucial to good health — and now a new study led by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at UCSF and UC Berkeley shows that poor sleep can reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.
A brief therapeutic intervention called motivational interviewing, administered over the telephone, was significantly more effective than a simple "check-in" call in getting Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with mental health diagnoses to begin treatment for their conditions, according to a new study.
<p><span>Christina Allen, MD, a surgeon at the UCSF Orthopaedic Institute, has traveled the world as the physician for the US taekwondo team, but her latest assignment at the London Olympics is a dream come true for someone who grew up watching the games and excelling as an athlete.</span></p>
<p>The UCSF-affiliated San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) has joined the national campaign to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth by releasing its own "It Gets Better" video featuring personal stories by doctors, nurses and staff.</p>
<p>The sixth annual Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) retreat offered an opportunity for more than 250 people from across the UCSF community to focus on CTSI’s successes and challenges, as well as its evolution toward greater independence amidst a changing funding environment.</p>
<p>Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, reflects on recent success and challenges ahead in a new video message.</p>
<p>Suzanne Harris was a registered nurse, worked on a cancer unit and was a mother to a young child when she smoked. Today, she directs the UCSF Fontana Tobacco Treatment Center, which offers comprehensive smoking cessation classes and relapse prevention support.</p>