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Taylor Cruz, winner of SSSP 2017 Healthy Policy, and Health Services Division Student Paper Competition

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,”!

2017 Last Lecture : Dr. Howard Pinderhughes

update: catch the live stream of this lecture at: https://lecture.ucsf.edu/ets/Play/7bae7b13f3e9460b9b6348b789ad863b1d   2017 Last Lecture

SBS Faculty and Students to present at ASA and SSSP, 2016

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

Rashon Lane featured at UCSF news site: Understanding 'Why' in the Ebola Outbreak

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…

Alum Jamie Chang Awarded 2015 Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation in Medical Sociology Award

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 Featured in June 2015 Science of Caring

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.

How We Age: Sociology Program Alum Elena Portacolone Looks at Older Adults Living Alone

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…

Adele Clarke: recipient of the UCSF 150th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award!

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…

Adele Clarke is the recipient of the 2015 Reeder Award from the ASA's Medical Sociology section

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…

Shari L. Dworkin Reports on the Inclusion of Men in the Global Health Agenda

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…