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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Children Receive Dental Services and Education at UCSF