Sunita Mutha, MD, FACP
Sunita Mutha is the director of Healthforce Center at the University of California San Francisco where she leads the organization’s efforts to generate health workforce knowledge, develop the capacity of health care leaders, and nurture statewide networks that cross silos to advocate for health equity and better care. These efforts involve collaborations with government agencies, policymakers, philanthropy, and health systems leaders in California and nationwide.
Mutha is professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and associate dean for academic affairs at the UCSF School of Dentistry. Her scholarly work focuses on language barriers in care delivery and systems interventions to reduce disparities in health. She has served on national committees including the Joint Commission’s Expert Advisory Panel guiding the development of hospital standards for culturally competent patient-centered care and Millbank Memorial Fund’s expert advisory committee to develop a national scorecard to measure the implementation of high-quality primary care.
Her leadership roles include service on committees for the National Quality Forum, The Joint Commission, and recently Milbank Memorial Fund. She chairs the board of directors for Insure the Uninsured Project, which promotes innovative and workable policy solutions for expanding access and improving the health of Californians, and serves on the board of directors for Physicians for a Healthy California, which is dedicated to improving community health, growing a diverse physician workforce, and promoting health equity. She also chairs the national advisory board for the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.
Mutha graduated from Albany Medical College and completed her residency and chief residency at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center. She also completed a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Stanford University. She is a practicing primary care physician.
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