Our Team

Healthforce Center at UCSF’s experienced management team and academic experts are nationally recognized for shaping health workforce policy, conducting complex research and evaluation initiatives, and designing and managing high-impact leadership development and capacity-building programs.

Our academic experts bring extensive interdisciplinary knowledge and methodological rigor across economics, sociology, public health, medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy and serve as high-level advisors for state and regional workforce initiatives.

Our leadership and program team bring decades of experience advising, designing, and managing high-impact policy, leadership, and capacity-building programs to equip organizations and leaders with the knowledge, tools and networks needed to transform our health care workforce and improve quality care for all.

Located within the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the leading university dedicated to advancing health worldwide, our team at Healthforce Center is uniquely positioned to bring our clients the policy, research and evaluation, leadership and capacity-building expertise they need to build the health care workforce of the future.

Leadership

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Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP
Director
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Elizabeth Mertz, PhD
Associate Director of Research
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Rebecca Hargreaves, MPP
Deputy Director

Faculty

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Tram Cat, PharmD, BCPS
Faculty
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Susan A. Chapman, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
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Janet Coffman, PhD, MA, MPP
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Beth Griffiths, MD, MPH
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Kristin S. Hoeft, PhD, MPH
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Elizabeth Mertz, PhD
Associate Director of Research
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Ulrike Muench, PhD, MSN, RN
Faculty
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Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP
Director
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Kateryna Ostrovska, MD
Fulbright Scholar
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Taylor B. Rogers, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Joanne Spetz, PhD
Faculty
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Laura M. Wagner, PhD, RN, FAAN
Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

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Rosalind De Lisser, PhD, FNP, PMHNP
Affiliated Faculty
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Katrina Kimport, PhD
Affiliated Faculty
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Jarmin Yeh, PhD, MPH, MSSW
Affiliated Faculty

Staff

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Khadijat Alli
Research Analyst
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Tim Bates
Senior Research Analyst
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Lisel Blash, MPA
Research Analyst
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Lela Chu
Research Analyst
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Brianna Fennell
Program Associate
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Margaret Fix, MPH
Research Analyst
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Marie Hubbard, MSW
Senior Program Manager
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Przemyslaw (Matthew) Jura
Research Analyst
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Aubri Kottek, MPH
Research Analyst and Program Manager
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Sutep Laohavanich, MS
Senior Manager
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Shuang Liang, MS
Research Analyst
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Xenia Mendez, MPH
Research Analyst
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Jacqueline (Jackie) Miller
Senior Research Data Analyst
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Kyoko Peterson, MPH
Research Assistant
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Amy Quan, MPH
Research Analyst
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Gustavo A. Sánchez
Administrative Officer II
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Sofia Sandoval
Project Policy Analyst
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Vaishnavi Vaidya, MPH
Program Manager
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Aria Yow, MA
Program Manager