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Announcing the Fourth Cohort of the Cedars-Sinai Managing to Leading Program
04-15-21
Healthforce Center: A Collective Force for Health, Equity, and Action
03-22-21
Sunita Mutha, MD, Director of Healthforce Center at UCSF
I always breathe more deeply when the smells of spring begin to fill the air here in San Francisco. But this spring feels extra special, as I see my patients, colleagues, and loved ones getting their COVID-19 vaccinations, and we begin to exhale a sigh of relief. Day by day, I feel more hopeful in... 
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... 
Reflections on Leadership: Being Intentional About How to Approach What’s Next
11-13-20
Sunita Mutha, MD, Director of Healthforce Center at UCSF
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... 
Drivers for Change in the Disability Rights Movement: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy and the Case for Evidence-based Research
10-26-20
Jackie Miller
The late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dream of becoming a “great diva” did not come to fruition in the truest sense, but she sang her opinions from the highest court in the land, and they reverberated throughout the United States. 
How Adverse Childhood Experiences Shape Health Care: In Conversation with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
10-23-20
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP
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... 
Innovations, Failures, and Leadership Lessons During the COVID-19 Pandemic
09-21-20
Leading Beyond the Crisis: What Leaders Should Know
06-24-20
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP, Director of Healthforce Center
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
06-04-20
Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP
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... 
Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
05-28-20
Joanne Spetz, PhD
Three of every four pharmaceutical overdose deaths in 2010 involved opioids, according to the CDC. This sobering statistic focused attention on the rapid acceleration and devastating impact of the epidemic of opioid use disorder in the United States.