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1st appeared 21 May 1998 UCSF and City Collaborate on Prevention Research Researchers who study the cause and spread of illnesses and public health officials who see the effects in this city will meet on Friday, May 29, to discuss ways to stem diseases and injuries that are taking a costly and deadly toll. The UCSF Center for Social, Behavioral and Policy Sciences (CSBPS) and the San Francisco Department of Public Health are sponsoring a half-day retreat which they hope will lead to new partnerships in community-based prevention research. Across the country, cities like San Francisco are feeling the burden of the rise in disease, many of which are preventable. Campus and public health experts at the retreat will examine risks such as: alcohol and tobacco, diet and inactivity, mental health and illicit drugs, motor vehicles/traffic and violence, sexual behavior and toxins, and infectious agents. "The University has a lot of people interested in prevention research and the city health department has a lot of energetic people who can not only provide the study settings but can be full partners in the research, and even more importantly, implement intervention programs," said George Rutherford, UCSF professor of preventive medicine and epidemiology. "Now is a good time to get together and raise some important community health questions and ask the city how to prioritize the research agenda," said Rutherford, who was California's chief public health official from 1993-95. "One of the goals is to replicate the UCSF-San Francisco collaborations in combating AIDS," said Rutherford, who also directed the AIDS Office in the San Francisco Department of Public Health from 1985-90. The retreat will close with discussions about research prevention priorities identified by UCSF faculty and city experts. Participants at the May 29 retreat will include Mitchell Katz, director of the SF Department of Public Health; Nancy Adler, director of the UCSF CSBPS; Thomas Coates, director of the UCSF AIDS Research Institute and the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies; and Philip Hopewell, UCSF associate dean for the School of Medicine at SFGH. The retreat will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio. Interested UCSF researchers may call Gabriel Rabu, 476-7408, for more information. by Andy Evangelista |
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