In today’s world, UCSF must be prepared to ensure health equity through all the data we collect and analyze, the tools and interventions we design and the partnerships we cultivate. The Health Equity Community Building Symposium is about building a shared understanding and community around those commitments.

Join us for a day-long in-person and virtual event focused on health equity in data interpretation and radical participatory design and research sponsored by UCSF's SOM Dean’s Office, Institute for Global Health Sciences, and Emancipatory Sciences Lab.

• Date: Friday, March 8, 2024
• Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. with social mixer to follow
• Location: Oberndorf Auditorium, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
• Breakfast and lunch will be provided with a social mixer to follow the day's events.

Accessibility: UCSF welcomes everyone to our events, including people with disabilities. To request a reasonable accommodation, please contact Madeleine Gesell by emailing madeleine.gesell@ucsf.edu as soon as possible.

Speakers

Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD – Opening Remarks

• Dean, UCSF School of Medicine

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS – Keynote

• Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF 
• Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network 

Victor Udoewa – Keynote 

• Service Design Lead in the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Tung Nguyen, MD – Closing Remarks

• Stephen J. McPhee, MD Endowed Chair in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Medicine.
• UCSF Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA and a Multiple Principal Investigator of the UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI).
• UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) and Co-Leader of the Cancer Control Program.