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Immigrant mothers – driven by poverty to leave their children behind and come to the US to provide their families with better lives – wrestle with the mental health challenges their choices engender. Rosa Maria Sternberg’s work brings their struggles to light and helps the mothers and health care providers address the challenges.

Fragmented systems and services affect the quality of care for children with complex, chronic health needs. Overcoming the fragmentation requires partnerships among families, providers and various support organizations.

For over a century, the tobacco industry's narrative about cigarettes has been a major contributor to more than 100 million deaths worldwide. In the 34th annual Helen Nahm Research Lecture, UCSF’s Ruth Malone described how she and her tobacco control colleagues are reshaping that narrative.

Former UCSF School of Nursing dean was at the forefront of a revolution that transformed nursing forever and still resonates today.

For too long, infant pain went unrecognized and untreated. That’s changed, but with improved pain management, a new set of clinical challenges has emerged. An interdisciplinary team from UCSF is tackling those challenges.

Since its early days under renowned sociologist Anselm Strauss, the pioneering PhD program in sociology at UCSF School of Nursing has been asking critical questions about – and making essential contributions to – health and health care.

By providing doula birth services and training in Bay Area jails, UCSF students and faculty aim to transform individuals and communities.

Combining the practice of mindfulness-based meditation with childbirth is Nancy Bardacke’s life work.

As a San Francisco General Hospital nurse-midwife and assistant clinical professor, Laurie Jurkiewicz cares for women and mentors students in a wide variety of settings.

UCSF’s Linda Franck’s multimedia booklet enhances the tools she has created to help parents comfort their infants in the NICU.

Diabetes is among the world’s most prevalent chronic diseases. Four advanced practice nursing students are receiving unique, intensive clinical training to help battle this epidemic.

Even as she helps clients in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, Esker-D Ligon helps nurse practitioner students gain hands-on experience delivering mental health services.