Research Centers

UCSF Action Research Center (ARC) for Health Equity

The UCSF Action Research Center (ARC) for Health Equity leads research to transform systems and create the conditions that support everyone in living a good and healthy life.

ARC coordinates, accelerates, and supports the work of 40+ faculty across UCSF. Our rigorous, field-leading research covers a wide range of topics from homelessness, incarceration, and food insecurity to immigrant health and diversity in the health workforce.

We translate our research into action by supporting institutional and community-based interventions and initiatives and by informing policy- and decision-makers about the structural and systemic issues that affect health equity. 

ARC Website

Phillip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies 

The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF is an interdisciplinary collection of concerned researchers who share a mission — improve health and transform healthcare in America by working across competing interests, collecting evidence, informing policy, and improving practice.

IHPS Website

 

UCSF PRISE (Partnerships for Research in Implementation Science for Equity) Center 

Their mission is to advance health equity through community partnerships and transformative implementation research. We accomplish this by making implementation science methods accessible and meaningful to leaders of public health and clinical programs and partnering with them to develop and evaluate the best ways to improve the delivery and uptake of health services. PRISE Center faculty have expertise and considerable experience in implementation science training, quantitative and qualitative research methods, implementation research study designs and program evaluation.

PRISE Center Website

 

UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence (LCOE)

The UCSF LCOE was established in 2018 under the direction of Dr. Alicia Fernández, Director of the CVP Program in Latinx and Immigrant Health, Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and general internist at ZSFG, where she practices primary care medicine and attends the medical ward. Dr. Fernández was awarded a four-year grant to establish the UCSF LCOE by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The UCSF LCOE is jointly funded through HRSA and UCSF and is housed within the UCSF School of Medicine, with close affiliation with the Center for Vulnerable Populations (CVP) at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG).

LCOE Website