Dr. Dzeng is a sociologist and hospitalist physician conducting research at the nexus of sociology, medical ethics, palliative care, health equity, anti-racism, and human-centered design. She is an Associate Professor "In Residence" at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sociology program, Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.
Sarah B. Garrett, PhD, is a medical and cultural sociologist. She works to promote health equity via stakeholder-informed mixed-methods research, focusing in particular on maternal health. She is core faculty at the Phillip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) at UCSF. She is currently conducting an NIH-funded study (K01) focused on hospitals' work to advance maternal health equity.
Jim V. Gatewood, PhD, MSN, AGPCNP-BC, RN is an assistant clinical professor in the Community Health Systems Department in the School of Nursing at UCSF. He began his professional career as a professor of twentieth-century U.S. intellectual, cultural, immigration and Asian American history. He was the interim head of the urban community and environmental studies concentration in the B.A. program in Liberal Studies at Antioch University Los Angeles before entering the MEPN program at UCSF.
Since February 2012 when she was appointed the UCSF Archivist Polina E. Ilieva has been managing the UCSF Archives and Special Collections (this department consists of Special Collections that includes materials in all formats on the history of the health sciences and ancillary disciplines, the University Archives and Manuscript Collections). Polina started working at the UCSF Library in 2006, for five years she was a Project Archivist for the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) at UCSF processing and indexing tobacco industry audio-visual materials.
Julene K Johnson, PhD is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the UCSF Institute for Health & Aging. She is co-director of the Sound Health Network, which is a partnership between UCSF and the National Endowment for the Arts. She also leads the NIH/NIA U24 "Music & Dementia Research Network" and is the UCSF site principal investigator for the National Science Foundation-funded AccelNet. She is a long-standing faculty mentor in the UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities (a NIA-funded Resource Center for Minority Aging Research). Dr.
Dr. Galen Joseph, Ph.D. is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. Her research examines the socio-cultural and institutional dimensions of inequities in cancer care and translational genomics.
Research Interests: The social construction and experience of addiction; Co-morbidity (HIV, substance abuse, mental illness), homelessness, and US urban health; Chronic non-cancer pain, clinical uncertainty, and scientific evidence; Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bi-polar disorder, and the US welfare state; Gender, reproduction, motherhood and citizenship.
