In today’s world, UCSF must be prepared to ensure health equity through all the data we collect and analyze, the tools and interventions we design and the partnerships we cultivate. The Health Equity Community Building Symposium is about building a shared understanding and community around those commitments.

Join us for a day-long in-person and virtual event focused on health equity in data interpretation and radical participatory design and research sponsored by UCSF's SOM Dean’s Office, Institute for Global Health Sciences, and Emancipatory Sciences Lab.

• Date: Friday, March 8, 2024
• Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. with social mixer to follow
• Location: Oberndorf Auditorium, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
• Breakfast and lunch will be provided with a social mixer to follow the day's events.

Accessibility: UCSF welcomes everyone to our events, including people with disabilities. To request a reasonable accommodation, please contact Madeleine Gesell by emailing [email protected] as soon as possible.

Friday, March 8, 2024, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

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• Speakers
• Keynote Bios
• Community Panel
• Symposium Program

Speakers

Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD – Opening Remarks

• Dean, UCSF School of Medicine

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS – Keynote

• Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF 
• Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network 

Victor Udoewa – Keynote 

• Service Design Lead in the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Tung Nguyen, MD – Closing Remarks

• Stephen J. McPhee, MD Endowed Chair in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Medicine.
• UCSF Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA and a Multiple Principal Investigator of the UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI).
• UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) and Co-Leader of the Cancer Control Program.

Keynote Bios

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS is the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is currently the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network.

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo has previously served as the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine. She also chaired the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics from 2017-2022. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital that generates actionable research to increase health equity and reduce health disparities in at-risk populations in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and nationally.

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is a general internist, cardiovascular disease epidemiologist, and a national leader in prevention and interventions to address health disparities. She had been a long-standing NIH-funded researcher who used observational studies, pragmatic trials, and simulation modeling to examine effective clinical, public health, and policy interventions aimed at prevention.

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo was a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force from 2010-2017 and led the Task Force as the vice-chair and chair from 2014-2017. She is an inducted member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Victor Udoewa

Victor Udoewa is a Service Design Lead in the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

He previously served as CTO, CXO, and Service Design Lead of NASA Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. He was the Director of Strategy at 18F, a civic consultancy for the federal government inside the federal government. He led the digital strategy practice and served as a designer and strategist on projects.

Previously, as a Global Education Instructional Designer and Training Development Specialist at Google, he designed learning products and services for people in low-to-middle-income countries around the world. The education could range from experiences covering how to develop web applications and how to use the internet to improve teaching and learning, to experiences exploring how to use internet technologies in post-disaster emergency response situations as well as global digital literacy. As a part of that work, he also advised Google in global energy and access work.

Prior to Google he served at USAID and DHS as a science & technology policy advisor and development engineer focusing on infrastructure, post-disaster reconstruction, climate neutrality and global health. He sometimes serves as an adjunct professor of design, education, computer science, or math. He still conducts and publishes engineering, design, or education research and is a certified health crisis and trauma counselor (HIV/AIDS, miscarriage, etc.). He enjoys singing in his choir, teaching salsa classes, and time with his wonderful family.

UCSF Community Panel

UCSF Community Perspectives on the Use of AI in Healthcare and Public Health

Symposium Program