Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, assistant professor in the UCSF School of Nursing’s Department of Family Health Care Nursing, has been awarded the 2019 Dr. Thomas N. Burbridge Award for Public Service for her outstanding contributions toward the public service mission of UCSF.
The campus award recognizes involvement in public service activities that specifically promote and bring about equal education and employment opportunities, civil rights and social justice. A special luncheon will be held as part of the Founders Day activities on May 17, 2019 to honor her and other award recipients in the faculty, staff and student categories.
McLemore is an affiliated scientist with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, and a member of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. She maintains clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse at Zuckerberg San Francisco General in the Women’s Options Center. A leader in global women’s health, her research focuses on understanding the factors that influence the health, wellbeing and livelihood of low-income and women of color.
The Thomas N. Burbridge Award is named for a UCSF graduate who joined the faculty of the School of Medicine in 1956. His humanitarian concern led him to interrupt his pursuit of a doctoral degree in Pharmacology to help develop a medical education program in Indonesia following that country's struggle for independence. In addition, Burbridge made several trips to southern states to recruit medical students to UCSF from predominantly black universities. He is most widely known for his leadership of the San Francisco NAACP, and in his efforts to promote civil rights and social justice.