The UCSF Family & Community Medicine research community continues to advance scholarship and shape public conversations on health equity, reproductive health, patient safety, medical education, primary care, and care delivery.
Recent publications from the community include:
- Maternal mental health trends in California - Kristen Marchi, MPH,
Katherine Heck, MPH, Christine Rinki, MPH, UCSF Center for Health Equity. - Preferred Medication Abortion Support in the Southeastern United States, 2024–2025: A Discrete Choice Experiment - Authors include Kelsey Holt, ScD, MA
- Caregiver and Patient Input for Quality and Safety (C-PIQS) Pilot Study: Patient-Initiated Safety Observations Using an m-Health Tool - Anjana Sharma, MD, MAS, et al.
- Health Inequities Training Threatened by Revised Liaison Committee on Medical Education Standards - Authors include Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD
- Barriers to Medicaid Participation for Community Midwives in California - Authors include Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD
Our community members are also bringing their expertise and perspectives to broader public conversations in the media. Recent articles include:
- Trust Takes Years to Build. Our Health System Breaks It Overnight - Kevin Grumbach, MD, in CHCF Blog
- Grooming Teenage Girls: The Warning Signs - April Bell, PhD, MPH, in Women's eNews
- As Students Head Back to School, Let’s Rethink What’s Success in Sex Education - April Bell in The 74
- Don’t Let AI Become the New Sex Educator for Adolescents - April Bell, PhD, MPH, in Ms. Magazine
- My brother got a new kidney. Then the care coordination stopped. - April Bell, PhD, MPH, in The Opinion Pages
- The new geography of abortion care - Jen Karlin, , MD, PhD, in STAT News
- When Reproductive Care Gets Complicated: Jennifer Karlin ’99 - Weslyan Magazine
- Right-Wingers Love Fertility Awareness. Reproductive Health Advocates Need To Stop Dismissing It. - Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS, Autonomy News
We're also thrilled to share that Laura Gottlieb, MD, MPH, was recently recognized for Excellence in Family Medicine Research by the California Academy of Family Physicians Foundation.
Together, these contributions demonstrate the breadth of our research community’s work and its impact both within academic scholarship and in public discourse.