Behavioral Diabetes Research Group (BDRG)
The mission of the BDRG is to gather new knowledge about the behavioral, social, emotional, cultural, and familial aspects of diabetes and it management over time, to develop and implement programs of clinical intervention to help patients with diabetes and their families manage diabetes effectively, and to help providers better organize and configure care to achieve these goals.
Center for Excellence in Primary Care (CEPC)
CEPC identifies, develops, tests, and disseminates promising innovations in primary care to improve the patient experience, enhance population health and health equity, reduce the cost of care, and restore joy and satisfaction in the practice of primary care. CEPC provides training in team-based care, offers practice facilitation to spur and support transformation, broadens the evidence base through research and evaluation, and advocates for policy that promotes high performing primary care.
Center for Health Equity (CHE)
The UCSF Center for Health Equity (CHE) is committed to a world with health equity, in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. CHE plays a leading role in research looking at upstream factors to improve health equity in the United States. Improving health equity entails removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, powerlessness, and their consequences. Health equity requires access to good jobs with fair pay; quality education, housing, and health care; and safe environments.
Executive Director: Kristen Marchi, MPH
Founding Director: Paula Braveman, MD, MPH
Community Engagement & Health Policy (CE&HP)
CE&HP bridges academic research, health policy, and community practice to improve public health. CE&HP strives to increase community participation in all stages of research to improve research-based practice and stimulate practice-based research; provide research and guidance for policy changes at the local, state and national levels; foster strong relationships for research collaboration between community health providers, policy makers, and academic researchers; and identify key research opportunities and support the development of useful research tools.
Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program (PCRHP)
The Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program (PCRHP) advances reproductive autonomy and well-being by improving access to high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare—including contraception, abortion, and HIV prevention—and promoting culture shifts in health care and beyond. We address systemic inequities and barriers to care by centering the needs and preferences of historically minoritized populations in research, service delivery, and policy. Our multi-pronged approach includes developing and disseminating values-driven performance measures, implementing provider and patient interventions, conducting innovative research, and advocating for reproductive autonomy in practice and policy.
SFBayCRN's mission is to facilitate mutually beneficial practice-based research partnerships between UCSF researchers and community-based primary care organizations, practices, and clinicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California.
Director: Michael Potter, MD
Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network (SIREN)
SIREN’s mission is to improve health and health equity by advancing high quality research on health care sector strategies to improve social conditions.
SIREN activities are focused on:
- Catalyzing high quality research to fill evidence gaps
- Collecting, summarizing, and disseminating research resources via an interactive website and a searchable Evidence and Resource Library
- Providing evaluation, research, and analytics consultation services to safety-net and mission-aligned health systems