DGIM DEI, Anti-Racism, & Advocacy Programs

SPACE Committee Social Justice, Political Advocacy Community Engagement committee (SPACE) since 2019. We donate to La Casa de Las Madres, engage in advocacy actions, meeting with policymakers, and build community among DGIM staff, trainees & faculty dedicated to SPACE topics.  
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Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression Town Halls established 2020 after George Floyd’s murder. Topics we’ve discussed:  Political Advocacy, Book Club: So You Want to Talk About Race, Race & Racism defined, Affirming Our Commitment to Equity, Supporting Community Business Owners of Color, Stop Asian Hate, Allyship, and Bystander Training.  For all at DGIM.    
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Language Equity Access Quality Improvement (LAQI) Committee aims to identify disparities in access, patient experience, and care that exist for DGIM patients whose preferred language with healthcare is one other than English, also known as limited English proficiency (LEP). This group consists of faculty, staff, and members of interpreter services working on behalf of our patients.
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Director of DEI at DGIM, Gina Moreno-John Projects: update ads to hire faculty & researchers, acknowledge ethnic and cultural celebrations, weekly and quarterly DEI education, DEI 101 workshop, handout to negotiate at work, help update breastfeeding policy, food insecurity survey for trainees and staff, anti-racism book club. Future: complete DEI survey with Diversio and fix areas that need improvement, create policies to address interpersonal conflicts.
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Director of Advocacy at DGIM, Beth Griffiths  Leads UCPC residency training in policy, advocacy and community engagement, which includes a partnership with GLIDE (Tenderloin-based org) to engage directly in their community work and to contribute to their advocacy for policy change. Leads DGIM faculty development in health policy & advocacy with Primary Care Grand Rounds, policy updates at faculty meetings, individual consultations, and in our newsletter.
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Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Taskforce.  Charged with identifying key issues facing AANHPI members at DGIM including academic staff, clinical staff, learners/trainees and faculty and to offer recommendations/solutions to the DGIM leadership.        
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Social and Behavioral Medicine Seminar for UCPC R2 & R3 residents.  Seminar for R2 and R3 residents when on ambulatory block.  Topics include Racism in Medicine, Health Literacy, Intimate Partner Violence, Addiction, Underserved patient populations & more.           
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Community-Engaged Advocacy Curriculum for UCPC R2 & R3 residents. Residents partner with GLIDE, a Tenderloin-based community-based organization that provides comprehensive services including daily meals and harm reduction services and advocates for policy change to further social justice. Residents provide direct service at GLIDE while engaging in critical reflection, learn advocacy skills, and partner with GLIDE to take action to affect policy change in areas relevant to our patients and community.
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Health Policy Curriculum for UCPC R2 & R3 residents.  Topics include Medicaid, Medicare, Private Health Insurance, the Affordable Care Act, and Single Payer & Other Paths to Universal Health Care. 
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THE MULTIETHNIC HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH CENTER The mission of MERC is to promote equity in health and healthcare for ethnically and linguistically diverse groups through applied multidisciplinary research and by training the next generation of investigators committed to achieving health equity. We seek to discover the mechanisms that explain health disparities and to develop, evaluate, and implement interventions that prevent and treat disease and advance health equity within healthcare systems and communities.

DGIM CORE FACULTY: Leah Karliner (Director), Maria Garcia (co-Director), Jane Jih (co-Director), Steve Gregorich, Celia Kaplan, Grace Lin, Pam Ling, Sunita Mutha, Tung Nguyen, Judith Walsh, Veronica Yank

DGIM AFFILIATE FACULTY: Nicole Appelle, Therese Chan Tack, Alison Huang, Alka Kanaya, Nhung Nguyen, Jesse Ristau, Jason Satterfield, Ida Sim, Mia Williams

THE ASIAN AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER ON HEALTH The Asian American Research Center on Health (ARCH) includes prominent researchers, community leaders, and clinicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Center will maintain an open and collaborative environment to carry out the vision, which is to be a leader in Asian American health research to promote health and health equity in partnership with Asian American communities. 

DGIM FACULTY: Tung Nguyen (Founder), Jane Jih (Co-Director), Janet Chu (Internship Director), Alka Kanaya, Don Ng, Nhung Nguyen, Leah Karliner

THE MASALA STUDY  The Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Study is the first longitudinal study in U.S. South Asians to understand what factors lead to heart disease and guide prevention and treatment of heart disease.

DGIM FACULTY: Alka Kanaya, Meghana Gadgil

THE CENTER FOR AGING IN DIVERSE COMMUNITIES CADC is dedicated to understanding and reducing health disparities among older racial/ethnic and sexual & gender minority populations. Our primary purpose is to train and mentor talented, underrepresented junior investigators to develop independent research careers focused on health disparities and aging issues. We do this primarily through our Scientist Training Program. We also provide resources for health disparities researchers focused on career development, research methods, conducting community and clinical intervention studies, and developing self-report measures.  

DGIM FACULTY: Leah Karliner (Director), Celia Kaplan, Tung Nguyen, Steve Gregorich, Maria Garcia, Alison Huang.

THE WOMEN’S HEALTH CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER The Center provides infrastructure for researchers from multiple departments to collaborate on projects designed to advance scientific understanding of women's health conditions and test new interventions to reduce their impact on women's functioning and well-being. The WHCRC emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to improving women’s health by recognizing the importance and interdependence of clinical care, research, leadership development, education, and partnering with communities. 

DGIM FACULTY: Alison Huang (Co-Director), Alka Kanaya, Meghana Gadgil

THE EQUITY & JUSTICE IN EDUCATION PROGRAM, CTR FOR FACULTY EDUCATORS  Works-in-Progress meetings serve to empower educators, educational researchers, and learners to utilize rigorous educational research methodology to identify bias and unequal power distribution to advance equitable and inclusive solutions in opportunity and achievement across the continuum of health sciences education. 

DGIM FACULTY: Arianne Teherani

THE UCSF COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER  The UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center combines basic science, clinical research, epidemiology/cancer control, population science and patient care from throughout the UCSF system.

DGIM FACULTY: Tung Nguyen, Associate Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Co-Leader, Cancer Control Program. Pam Ling, Co-Leader, Cancer Control Program