Mission

Mission

UCSF Global Health Sciences (GHS) is dedicated to improving health and reducing the burden of disease in the world's most vulnerable populations. It integrates UCSF expertise in all of the health, social, and biological sciences, and focuses that expertise on pressing issues in global health. GHS works with partners in countries throughout the world to achieve these aims.

History

UCSF Global Health Sciences was established in 2003 to create a vision and provide institutional leadership for global health at UCSF. Under the direction of Haile T. Debas, MD, and reporting directly to Chancellor J. Michael Bishop, its creation underscores UCSF's commitment to global health and to the care of vulnerable populations at home and throughout the world.

International health programs and projects have long been part of the rich training and research portfolio of UCSF faculty. By shifting our terminology and focus at UCSF to Global Health Sciences, we underscore our attention to the global impact of diseases of poverty, chronic illness, and the worldwide threats of new infectious diseases. UCSF currently has many active projects in scores of countries throughout the world representing all four of its professional schools, the basic science departments, and specialized interdisciplinary units such as the Institute for Global Health and AIDS Research Institute.

Many new relationships for training and research continue to be forged, substantially driven by UCSF students who are keenly interested to share their knowledge with the wider world and to learn from other societies and cultures.

UCSF Global Health Sciences is charged to develop training and research programs and to provide institutional service.