Achieving health equity and eliminating health-related disparities are essential work of the health professions. Nursing has the capacity to make a significant impact. Barriers to health equity – including social, economic, demographic and structural – must be overcome so all populations have access and opportunity to be healthy. Small-scale interventions can provide relief, but engineering broad social and political reform to erase health inequities is the ultimate goal.
Major Projects
Major projects within this research theme that are being led by School of Nursing faculty include:
- Motivating Interdisciplinary Lactation Knowledge (MILK) Research Lab (principal investigator: Ifeyinwa Asiodu)
- Studying Inclusive Mentor Networks to Diversify the Biomedical Workforce (principal investigator: Mica Estrada)
- Effects of Job Quality in the Service Sector on Health Related Outcomes across the Life Course (principal investigator: Kristen Harknett)
- Jamaica CARES Project: Connecting HIV/AIDS Resources to Engage Jamaican Sexual and Gender Minorities (principal investigator: Orlando Harris)
- Healthcare Decision-Making in California Women's Prisons: Historical Legacies of Injustice and Modern Regulatory Constraints (principal investigator: Jennifer James)
- The Ethics of Inclusion: Diversity in Precision Medicine Research (principal investigator: Janet Shim)
Partnerships and Resources
- UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
- UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities
- UCSF Anchor Institution Initiative
- UCSF Center for Health Equity
- UCSF Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center
- Preterm Birth Initiative
- UCSF Population Health and Health Equity (see additional partners by clicking on "Programs and Partners" on this website)
- UCSF Emancipatory Sciences Lab