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LGBTQ+ communities have experienced increased anxiety and depression since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those who haven’t struggled with these conditions before.
UCSF Archives and Special Collections was awarded a $14,986 local assistance grant by the California State Library for the “Documenting the LGBTQ Health Equity Movement in California” project.
From international awards for high-caliber research to groundswell movements for social change, this past year was an eventful one for the UCSF community.
The faculty, staff and students were honored by Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, and Vice Chancellor Renee Chapman Navarro, MD, PharmD, during a luncheon on Oct. 24.
The work is an important part of the continual process of improvement across the UCSF Health system.
UCSF Health has been named a 2019 “Leader in LGBTQ Health Care Equality.”
UCSF’s Pride theme was “Generations of Impact,” highlighting the University’s decades-long commitment to the LGBTQ community and our leadership in HIV research.
Nearly 25 percent of the LGBT adults aged 50 and older in a new study had subjective cognitive decline, a potential indicator of a future Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Fears of insensitive questioning, withdrawal from hormone treatment and the use of a patient’s legal name, rather than chosen name, may drive many transgender people away from acute care facilities, including emergency departments, urgent care and inpatient treatment, according to an analysis by UCSF doctors.
A rainbow-hued contingent from UCSF turned out for the 48th annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade.
The UCSF community is participating in this year’s AIDS Walk San Francisco, which raises funds to benefit dozens of AIDS organizations in the Bay Area.
UCSF and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital aim to help address the dearth of medical research addressing sexual or gender minorities through an ambitious national program to collect data that could help to answer the most basic questions about their health.
With many wearing shirts to promote inclusiveness, participants from UCSF turned out in large numbers for the 47th annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade and March.
