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As an umbrella organization, UCSF Global Health Sciences interacts with
a broad array of disciplines. To ensure the participation and input of
key constituencies, directors of the following interdisciplinary centers
serve on the Executive
Committee. These individuals as well as faculty associated with these
programs play vital roles in UCSF Global Health Sciences.
The AIDS Research Institute (ARI), coordinates and integrates AIDS research
activities at the University of California, San Francisco. The largest
AIDS research entity in the world outside of the National Institutes of
Health, the ARI stimulates innovation and supports interdisciplinary collaboration
aimed at all aspects of the epidemic, both domestic and international.
More than 500 core faculty are affiliated with the ARI, which encompasses
dozens of programs from throughout the university and affiliated institutions.
ARI funding totals more than $110 million and is distributed across all
four schools at UCSF.
Director: John S. Greenspan,
BDS, PhD, FRCPath.
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One of three divisions within the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cancer
Population Sciences conducts research on what causes cancer in populations
domestically and internationally. Its activities include studies of: cancer
incidence, morbidity and mortality; interventions to prevent, detect and
treat cancer; quality of life for those living with the disease. A core
faculty of 25 researchers is drawn from fields ranging from epidemiology
to the behavioral sciences. Ninety-two grants totaling $29 million support
the work of the division of Cancer Population Sciences.
Director: Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD.
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A joint program of the UCSF School of Medicine and the UC Berkeley School
of Public Health, the Institute for Global Health works to improve health
and increase access to effective and affordable health services in all
countries. Its 20 core faculty are involved in a number of grant-supported
research activities in African and Asian nations. They include projects
ranging from child health to HIV and sexually transmitted disease transmission
to the control of malaria and tuberculosis. Other projects include international
traineeships in AIDS prevention, a postdoctoral scholars program, and
programs to infuse the UCSF medical school curriculum with additional
instruction in public and international health.
Director: George W. Rutherford,
MD (interim).
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This umbrella organization encourages interdisciplinary research and education
on the social, behavioral and biological determinants of health. The 285
core faculty are drawn from a range of disciplines. Major grant-supported
research projects include an NICHD-funded analysis of assisted reproductive
technologies, an NIH-NIDCR-supported examination of disparities in children's
oral health, and a MacArthur Foundation-supported international network
of scientists examining how socioeconomic status affects health. Major
training programs include a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded effort
to train investigators to conduct research on the determinants of health.
Curriculum development grants from the California Endowment support an
effort to add more information on culture and behavior to medical education.
Director: Nancy Adler, PhD.
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The Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) conducts basic and applied
research on health services and policies, with the goal of improving health
and social problems at the international, national, state, and local levels.
The IHPS also provides education and training for students and practitioners
in the health professions and related disciplines. A core faculty of 22
is engaged in research on topics that include the organization and financing
of health care; health care for under-served populations; cost and policy
issues related to the HIV epidemic; substance use and abuse, including
tobacco; maternal and child health and reproductive health services; and
the authorship, peer review and dissemination of biomedical publications.
Grant support for these activities totals approximately $10 million annually.
The IHPS also offers fellowship training in health services/health policy
research.
Director: Harold S. Luft, PhD.
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This privately endowed research unit investigates infectious and inflammatory
eye diseases, applying its findings to the prevention of blindness worldwide.
The Proctor Foundation is recognized as the pre-eminent center of its
kind in the world. A core faculty of 10 investigators draws research support
from the NIH and private foundations to fund its work. Major research
programs include efforts to prevent blindness from trachoma, corneal ulceration
and cataracts. Other investigations encompass latent herpes virus infections,
infectious and inflammatory eye diseases prevalent in Northern California,
and Sjogren's syndrome. The Foundation offers clinical and research fellowships
in eye diseases, an international scholar clinical research fellowship,
postdoctoral and resident training.
Director: Todd P. Margolis, MD,
PhD.
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The Sandler Center, sustained by the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation,
is a consortium of laboratories dedicated to the development of new drugs
for the treatment of global parasitic infections. It works closely with
the Tropical Disease Research Unit, an NIAID-supported program targeting
the protozoan organisms trypanosomes and leishmania. The Sandler Center
Consortium includes laboratories working in synthetic chemistry, structural
biology, computational biology, biochemistry, animal models of disease
and drug metabolism. A core faculty of 20 participates in the work of
the Sandler Center. The Center provides laboratory experience for graduate
and postdoctoral fellows, in cooperation with several graduate programs
at UCSF. The Center also supports sabbatical visitors from developing
countries.
Director: James H. McKerrow, PhD,
MD.
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The Women's Global Health Imperative's mission is to develop public health
interventions that prevent HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs),
unintended pregnancies, and maternal mortality through collaborative research,
academic and clinical training, community education, and the study of
gender inequity.
Director: Nancy Padian, PhD.
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