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In 2020, as the world faces another new virus stoking fear and uncertainty, San Francisco may be uniquely up to the challenge. Strong ties between UCSF, local government agencies and community groups, forged in the fire of the AIDS epidemic, and a deep bench of infectious disease expertise, has helped the city flatten the curve and better understand this new disease.
Two UCSF faculty will lead the new institutes.
Infections that plagued the world for centuries (malaria, HIV/AIDS) are on the verge of eradication. Others threaten to disrupt human lives and economies more than ever before.
No one can see the future, but that won’t stop us from trying. We asked UCSF faculty and alumni to score these predictions for likelihood and impact.
From international awards for high-caliber research to groundswell movements for social change, this past year was an eventful one for the UCSF community.
HIV infection significantly increases the risk of atrial fibrillation.
Several hundred UC San Francisco staff, faculty, students and supporters joined the annual San Francisco AIDS Walk on Sunday to raise money for local AIDS organizations as well as show their support
UCSF will be raising funds at this year’s AIDS Walk San Francisco. One of the beneficiaries will be Ward 86’s new POP-UP Clinic.
The annual event is based on the question: “If you have but one lecture to give, what would you say?”
It’s been decades since San Francisco was ground zero for the AIDS epidemic, but for one population, it still is.
Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, is committed to tackling the public health effects of gender inequality and helping to improve cervical cancer screening in Kenya.
