Huge congratulations to our very own Taylor Cruz, winner this year's Health, Healthy Policy, and Health Services Division Student Paper Competition for the paper “The Rise of Quantification in United States Health Care Delivery Policy, 1965-2015,”!
Announcing:
111th ASA Annual Meeting | August 20-23, 2016 | Seattle, WA | Washington State Convention Center and Sheraton Seattle Hotel
The Society for the Study of Social Problems 66th Annual Meeting | August 19-21, 2016 | Westin Seattle Hotel Seattle, WA
Incoming student Rashon Lane (2015) has shared her story on what being part of UCSF means to her and is a featured voice this week on UCSF One Story.
The article, "Rashon Lane: Understanding 'Why' in the Ebola Outbreak", begins:
Before returning home to pursue her PhD in…
On Tuesday June 16th, the American Sociological Association officially announced their 2015 Medical Sociology Section Awards. We are thrilled to see that two of our scholars have earned prestigious awards this year!
Howard Pinderhughes and the Hope Dealers
June 2015 • By Andrew Schwartz
Howard Pinderhughes’ latest book begins with the funeral of a young man he knew.
In July 1995, as Chicago sweltered in temperatures that soared to over 100°F, more than 500 people died – largely the isolated elderly, many of whom who couldn’t afford air conditioning and were often too afraid to leave doors or windows open in their crime-plagued neighborhoods. The disaster…
Congratulations to Adele Clarke on her selection as a recipient of the UCSF 150th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award! These awards highlight the contributions of and engage UCSF’s most illustrious living degreed and non-degreed alumni.
Adele will have her distinguished accomplishments honored in…
This award is given annually for Distinguished Contribution to Medical Sociology. This award recognizes scholarly contributions, especially a body of work displaying an extended trajectory of productivity that has contributed to theory and research in medical sociology. The Reeder Award also…
The men’s health gap: men must be included in the global health equity agenda
In most parts of the world, health outcomes among boys and men continue to be substantially worse than among girls and women, yet this gender-based disparity in health has received little national, regional or global…