Health Policy PhD program alum and current adjunct faculty Dr. Shannon Smith-Bernardin was a guest on the Social EMpact podcast this summer. The show objectives include:
Understand the challenges in treating alcohol use disorder in the emergency department
Understand alcohol use in…
Congratulations to Professor Emerita Dr. Ruth Malone PhD, RN, FAAN, on being named as one of the 2020 Student-Nominated Faculty Awards. These awards which are bestowed by graduates of each program in recognition of a faculty member’s dedication, support and excellence in teaching…
Dr. Charlene Harrington served as a panelest at the UCSF School of Medicine Grand Rounds, "Update on Covid-19: Testing, ICU Practices and Outcomes at ZSFG, and the Experience of Elders in the Covid-19 Pandemic." In this UCSF Medical Grand Rounds presentation (May 28, 2020), UCSF experts…
Professor Emerita Carroll Estes, will receive the 2019-2020 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award honoring emeriti professors in the UC system. A founding scholar in the field of “political economy of aging," and an Emerita of the Nursing Health Policy programfaculty, Estes has…
Susan Chapman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Joanne Spetz, PhD, and Laura Wagner, PhD, RN, FAAN, were cited as "superheroes" in CalMatter's March 27 story
Even with the flexibility and power afforded the governor under California’s current state of emergency, tackling such a major “system…
Jason Bloomer, interviewed in this segment was the ICU nurse for a patient just released from UCSF after 34 days on a ventilator. Bloomer is currently a 1st year MS student in the Nursing Health Policy program.
Bloomer was also instrumental in setting up Zoom connections between patients…
On the Tuesday May 19 PBS NewsHour, the Senate is divided over when to provide additional coronavirus aid -- and to whom. Plus: Sens. Pat Toomey and Sherrod Brown on federal pandemic relief, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on COVID-19 trends in his state, coronavirus infections surge in Russia,…