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How HIV Changed Medicine Forever

The quest to defeat HIV/AIDS didn’t just turn a deadly virus into a manageable condition. It transformed science and health care.

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Living My Most Joyful Chapter

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Training the Eye to See Disease On Dark Skin

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Five Questions for Ryan Hernandez

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Amber Bell, MS ’19, CNM: Returning an Age-Old Vocation to its Roots

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Abdikarin Abdullahi, MD ’23: Increasing Equity in Med School Admissions

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Five Questions for Heather Hervey-Jumper

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The Body Tells the Story

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Preparing for a Post-Roe America

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Norway’s Humane Approach to Prisons Can Work Here Too

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Five Questions for Diane Havlir

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What’s Wrong (and Right) With Race in Medicine

Photo of Kim Rhoads with staff members of Umoja Health Partners at a vaccine clinic.

Uniting the Black Community to Defeat COVID

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Poor Health

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A Crisis-on-Top-of-a-Crisis: Homelessness in the Time of COVID-19

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An Epidemic of Inequality

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White Wash

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Haircuts Plus Health Care

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Who Will Benefit From Precision Medicine?

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Why We Need a “Radical Investment in SF’s Future”

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Madalene Mandap, PharmD ’12: Hand in hand with Alaska Native people on the journey toward health

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Francisco Alvarez, MS ’19, RN: Caring for kids with COVID complications

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Kimberly Baltzell, RN, PhD ’05, MS ’10: Supporting nurses so giving birth is safe for all women

Portrait of Alicia Catanese in nurse’s scrubs.

Lending a Hand in the Navajo Nation

Portrait of Joseph Kidane.

Not Yet A Doctor but Still Finding Ways to Serve

Portrait of Kenny Banh in an N95 mask and goggles, inside a tent.

Healing the San Joaquin Valley

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When Telehealth Came to the Tenderloin

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Mental Health on the Margins

Portrait of Matthew State, MD, PhD, sitting at a black table with his hands folded, resting on the table, in front of a blank black background.

The Crisis in Our City

Daniel Ciccarone stands on a city street.

Streets of Pain

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Beyond the Bullet

Addressing Violence as a National Disease

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Sugar’s Sick Secrets

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Empty Plate

Oliver Bishop with drumline equipment at his high school track field.

Free To Be He, She, They

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Capturing a Pandemic Moment

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Monica McLemore, PhD ’10: Demanding quality reproductive health care for all

Photo of Jirayut Latthivongskorn at the UCSF Library.

A Remarkable “New” American

A resident wearing a face mask in Chinatown, San Francisco, is transporting groceries on a bike during the shelter-at-home Covid-19 crisis.

Backlash: Anti-Asian Racism Escalates During COVID-19

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Tackling Childbirth-Related Mortality in the World’s Poorest Place

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Depth of Field

A collection of UCSF Magazine stories about health equity

Read how UCSF is striving to serve the health needs of all.

Magazine SU21 Race in Med Social Card