A Retrospective of 2021 Progress at Healthforce Center
By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center on
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…
Seven Lessons on Cultivating Connections and Staff Engagement
By Renae Waneka, Senior Manager, People & Programs at Healthforce Center on
With September comes a return to classes at UC San Francisco, and a new cycle of learning begins. Healthforce Center uses a dashboard of metrics to support and evaluate its internal learning and development. This year, I expected our staff engagement scores to be negatively affected by the…
Partnering to Solve Complex Problems: Advice from Dr. Sunita Mutha
You Can’t Just Be Anti-Racist at Work
Announcing the Fourth Cohort of the Cedars-Sinai Managing to Leading Program
Reflections on Leadership: Being Intentional About How to Approach What’s Next
By Sunita Mutha, MD, Director of Healthforce Center at UCSF on
As we look forward from this recent presidential election, there is a lot to celebrate given the huge success of “get out the vote” efforts. However we might feel about the results of the state and presidential elections, there are important reflections about where we are at this moment in time and…
How Adverse Childhood Experiences Shape Health Care: In Conversation with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP on
On September 24, the state of California’s first-ever Surgeon General, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, spoke to the alumni of the California Health Care Foundation’s (CHCF) Health Care Leadership program about her frontline experience with trauma-informed care, including her focus on Adverse Childhood…
Leading Beyond the Crisis: What Leaders Should Know
By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center on
For nearly three decades Healthforce Center has been training health care leaders at all levels — from emerging to executive levels. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been steadily hearing from alumni of Healthforce’s leadership programs about the experience of leading in a…
The Equitable Future We Need
By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP on
While I usually use this space to talk about leadership and increasing capacity in health care, now is not the time for that. Now is the time to talk about the despair and pain that is in the forefront of my heart and mind; despair and pain that I know from my conversations with colleagues, friends…
Mission Integration: Behavioral Health Strategies to Achieve Whole Health (webinar)
Health Care’s Problems Too Big to Handle Alone
By Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center on
The challenges facing health care are too big for individuals or individual organizations to handle alone. Solving these problems requires collaboration among payors, plans, foundations, educational institutions, and health care systems in both the safety net and commercial sectors. It requires…