Everyone at UCSF with an identification badge is encouraged to get a free flu shot available at multiple campus locations beginning today.

UCSF Police ask anyone who sees a convicted thief and known trespasser on UCSF property to immediately call them.

UCSF postdoctoral scholar Elizabeth Fair is helping to shape the future direction of Global Health Sciences (GHS). Since GHS began only three years ago with the vision of Executive Director Haile Debas, Fair has been working alongside about 65 researchers from UCSF and UC Berkeley on strategic planning to determine the institute's mission and future goals, as well as to devise models for applying basic science to global health work over the next five to 10 years.

UCSF Today highlights a few of the people and programs that make this University a place of hope and promise.

Gender equity, sexual harassment, conflict resolution and ethics. These are a few of the challenging issues that UCSF has tackled over the years as it tries to make the University a better place for faculty, staff and students.

Cancer, diabetes, inflammation, malaria. The list of diseases ripe for new treatments is long. Yet the pace of drugs coming to market is actually flat.

Most scientists agree that increased risk to breast cancer is more strongly associated with environmental and lifestyle factors.

Now in its ninth year, the Osher Center has been a steadfast role model in this health care revolution in San Francisco.

With the breadth and depth of its research enterprise, UCSF is in a position to play a significant role in laying the foundation for stem cell research.

Kavita Mishra vividly remembers the Algerian motorcycle accident victim she met while volunteering at a hospital in Madrid. "A large portion of his brain and skull was gone, but he could still speak four languages," Mishra, 23, recalls. The incident became a turning point in her life.