Our Team New

Healthforce Center's experienced management team and faculty are nationally recognized for its extensive knowledge of the health care environment, research landscape, and leadership training in both the public and private sectors. We have assembled a broad team of researchers and staff with a diversity of perspectives and experiences to provide the research, training, and programming solutions you need.

Healthforce Center's research faculty, representing both UCSF and partner organizations, brings extensive interdisciplinary knowledge from across a variety of fields including economics, sociology, public health, medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy. We bring decades of experience to our country’s most pressing health care concerns and focus our research on issues impacting health care professionals, now and in the future.

Health care organizations need effective leaders and rigorous, unbiased research to successfully navigate this ever-changing health care landscape. Located at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the leading university dedicated to advancing health worldwide, Healthforce Center is specifically equipped to transform health care leaders and provide essential research insights about the US health care system.

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
Faculty
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Janet Coffman, PhD, MA, MPP
Faculty
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Beth Griffiths, MD, MPH
Faculty
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Kristin S. Hoeft, PhD, MPH
Faculty
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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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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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Sofia Sandoval
Project Policy Analyst
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Vaishnavi Vaidya, MPH
Program Manager
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Aria Yow, MA
Program Manager