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Confronting Implicit Bias to Adapt Depression Screening and Treatment

07-19-22
Vaishnavi Vaidya, MPH, Program Manager, Healthforce Center at UCSF
Over the past 20 years, Tennessee has seen immense growth in the Latinx population due to a steady influx of migrant agriculture workers. To meet the health care needs of families in this community, Cherokee Health Systems (CHS), an integrated Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) opened a...

Celebrating our Achievements: CIN Advanced Racial Health Equity and More

06-15-22
The California Improvement Network (CIN), a project of the California Health Care Foundation that is managed by Healthforce Center at UCSF, is a community of health care professionals that has been striving since 2005 to identify and spread ideas to improve health care delivery in California. CIN’s...

Workshop – Confronting Racism Denial: Tools for Naming Racism and Moving to Action

05-31-22
Racism is a major driver of health inequities in the United States. For most of our 30 years, Healthforce Center at UCSF has been working to advance health equity by building pipelines of diverse health leaders, strengthening the cultural competency of clinicians, and centering equity in quality...

Supporting Access and Equity in Primary Care Through New Payment Models

03-22-22
This panel discusses how Californians can work together to realize a future vision for primary care that addresses the issues of unequal access and disparities in health outcomes. The recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report on “Implementing High-Quality...

A Retrospective of 2021 Progress at Healthforce Center

01-26-22
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center
If 2020 was the year of a collective reckoning on racial injustice across the nation, then 2021 was the year of laser-like focus on how to redouble our efforts to advance equity and become more anti-racist. As Healthforce Center at UCSF will celebrate our 30th anniversary in 2022, we are taking...

Well-Being Strategies for the Health Care Workforce

10-30-21
Health systems are uniquely positioned to advance health equity by ensuring that their own workers are well, supported, and equipped to deliver high-quality care. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how work environments in health systems affect the well-being of workers, whose capacity to deliver safe...

Dr. Elizabeth Mertz to Lead Research at Healthforce Center at UCSF

10-01-21
Healthforce Center at UCSF is excited to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Mertz has been appointed Associate Director of Research to succeed Dr. Joanne Spetz. In this role, Mertz will be responsible for developing new research opportunities and cultivating faculty connections.

You Can’t Just Be Anti-Racist at Work

05-20-21
“Structural racism.” “Institutional racism.” “Societal racism.” These are phrases that we commonly hear today that signal acknowledgement of the breadth and depth with which white supremacy maintains power in our lives.

Is Cultural Competence Training a Solution to Structural Racism in Health Care?

04-21-21
Sunita Mutha, MD, Director of Healthforce Center at UCSF
One of my passions in my work here at Healthforce Center at UCSF is advancing culturally competent care for all patients. Having served on multiple panels and boards, including the Joint Commission’s Expert Advisory Panel to develop standards for culturally competent care, I believe this is one...

OpEd: COVID-19 Reveals Need to Increase Diversity Among California Physicians

03-16-21
By Janet Coffman of Healthforce Center and Alicia Fernández of Latinx Center of Excellence. Special to CalMatters
COVID-19 has revealed serious flaws in our health system, but none is more distressing than the deep racial and ethnic inequality exposed by the pandemic. With Latinx and Black people dying at higher rates than the rest of the population, communities of color are much more likely than other groups...

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