Building Health Together
We improve health through patient care, education, research, advocacy, and community partnership.
Where care, learning, discovery, and community come together.
We bring family and community medicine to life through patient care, education, research, and partnership.
Care for the whole person
Relationship-centered care for individuals, families, and communities across a wide range of settings.
Learn. Teach. Lead.
Preparing physicians, educators, and health leaders through innovative family medicine education.
Evidence into action
Research that advances health equity, primary care, reproductive health, addiction care, and health systems.
Partnership in practice
Working with patients, communities, advocates, organizations, and health systems to improve health.
Research that makes a difference.
Our research brings evidence into practice to improve health, strengthen primary care, and advance health equity. Across disciplines and communities, FCM researchers are advancing work in health equity, reproductive health, addiction and harm reduction, primary care innovation, and the systems and policies that shape health.
Latest Research & Scholarship
Recent research and scholarship from FCM faculty and collaborators.
Primary Care as a Public Utility: The Case for a Common Fund
Implementing Three-Day Methadone in a Low-Threshold Bridge Clinic: Impact of OTP Referral Pathways on Treatment Retention
Trends in Utilization of an Anonymous Abortion and Miscarriage Hotline Before and After Dobbs
Our experts, in the news.
FCM faculty and experts contribute insight to conversations shaping health care, medicine, research, policy, and our communities.
UCSF doctor has bold plan to achieve universal primary care in California
FCM’s Kevin Grumbach discusses a proposal to make primary care a public utility and create a common fund to support primary care for all Californians.
Catherine Ho · May 26, 2026
Don’t Let AI Become the New Sex Educator for Adolescents
FCM’s April Bell examines how adolescents are increasingly turning to AI for sexual and reproductive health information and calls for culturally responsive, bias-aware, and community-informed approaches.
April Bell · August 20, 2026
What’s happening at FCM.
Connect with upcoming events, department news, and opportunities to join our community.
Rodnick Colloquium
Save the date for the annual Rodnick Colloquium. More details to come.
Manuel Tapia, MD, MPH, Appointed Stephen and Faith Brown Professor of Family and Community Medicine
The UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine celebrates Manuel Tapia, MD, MPH, and his appointment as the Stephen and Faith Brown Professor of Family and Community Medicine.
We’re Hiring
Explore opportunities to join UCSF Family & Community Medicine and contribute to our work in patient care, education, research, and community health.
Family medicine in action
More than five decades of changing family medicine
Explore the people, milestones, programs, and honors that shaped FCM—from pioneering community medicine and HIV care to health equity, research, and primary care transformation.
Explore Our History & Legacy (Coming soon!)
Ideas that challenge, connect, and move us forward.
Our Grand Rounds bring together clinicians, researchers, educators, community leaders, and learners to explore the issues shaping primary care.
The Menopause Connection A continuum of women’s health Watch on YouTube From Bot to Bedside AI patient actors for clinical reasoning and communication skills Watch on YouTube Queer Pathologization Understanding the History & Reflecting on Agency-Based Alternatives Watch on YouTube