The University of California,San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco,California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It conducts research and teaching in medical and biological sciences.
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland,the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley,Davis,Irvine,Los Angeles,Merced,Riverside,San Diego,San Francisco,Santa Barbara,and Santa Cruz,along with numerous research centers and academic centers abroad. The system is the state's land-grant university.
The University of California,San Diego is a public land-grant research university in San Diego,California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography,UC San Diego is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California. It offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs,enrolling 33,096 undergraduate and 9,872 graduate students,with the second largest student housing capacity in the nation. The university occupies 2,178 acres (881 ha) near the Pacific coast.
Marye Anne Payne Fox was an American physical organic chemist and university administrator. She was the first female chief executive of North Carolina State University in Raleigh,North Carolina. In April 2004,Fox was named chancellor of the University of California,San Diego. In 2010 Fox received the National Medal of Science.
The University of California,Merced is a public land-grant research university in Merced,California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California (UC) system. Established in 2005,UC Merced is the newest campus within the UC system. The primary campus is located around five miles north of Merced and sits adjacent to Lake Yosemite. The main campus is around 1,026 acres in size. Large swaths of protected natural grasslands surround the university.
UC San Diego Health is the academic health system of the University of California,San Diego in San Diego,California. It is the only academic health system serving San Diego and has one of three adult Level I trauma centers in the region. In operation since 1966,it comprises three major hospitals:UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest,Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla,and East Campus Medical Center at UC San Diego Health in East County. The La Jolla campus also includes the Moores Cancer Center,Shiley Eye Institute,Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center,and Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion,and the health system also includes several outpatient sites located throughout San Diego County. UC San Diego Health works closely with the university's School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy to provide training to medical and pharmacy students and advanced clinical care to patients.
The University of California,Berkeley School of Public Health,also called Berkeley Public Health,is one of fourteen schools and colleges at the University of California,Berkeley. The school is currently accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health.
The University of California,San Diego School of Medicine is the graduate medical school of the University of California,San Diego,a public land-grant research university in La Jolla,California. It was the third medical school in the University of California system,after those established at UCSF and UCLA,and is the only medical school in the San Diego metropolitan area. It is closely affiliated with the medical centers that are part of UC San Diego Health.
Pradeep Kumar Khosla is an Indian-American computer scientist and university administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of California,San Diego since August 1,2012.
Sue Desmond-Hellmann is an American oncologist and biotechnology leader who served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014 to 2020. In March 2024 she was elected as a board member of OpenAI. She was previously Chancellor of the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF),the first woman to hold the position,and Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor,and before that president of product development at Genentech,where she played a role in the development of the first gene-targeted cancer drugs,Avastin and Herceptin.
The Graduate School of Public Health is one of the professional graduate schools of San Diego State University within its College of Health and Human Services. Located in the College Area neighborhood of San Diego,California,it is part of the Association of Schools of Public Health and is fully accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health.
Garen J. Wintemute is an emergency medicine physician at UC Davis Medical Center,in the US state of California,where he is the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program. He conducts research in the fields of injury epidemiology and the prevention of firearm violence. He has been named a "hero of medicine" by Time magazine. He is the director of the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center,which was established in 2017;the center is the first state-funded gun violence research center in the country.
The UC San Diego Medical Center,Hillcrest is one of three medical centers of UC San Diego Health and is a teaching hospital for the University of California,San Diego School of Medicine.
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist and physician. She is the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network. She is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman,MD Endowed Professor of Medicine at University of California,San Francisco. She is a general internist and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital.
JoAnn Trejo is an American pharmacologist,cell biologist,a professor,and also an assistant vice chancellor in the department of health sciences faculty affairs in the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine at University of California,San Diego. She is also the assistant vice chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs. Trejo studies cell signalling by protease-activated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). She is also actively involved in mentoring,education and outreach activities to increase the diversity of science.
Cheryl Ann Marie Anderson is an American epidemiologist. Anderson is a professor at and founding Dean of the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science. Anderson's research focus is on nutrition and chronic disease prevention in under-served human populations.
Elizabeth Louise Barrett-Connor was Chief of the Division of Epidemiology and Distinguished Professor at the University of California,San Diego. She investigated the role of hormones in pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease,diabetes and osteoporosis.
David "Davey" M. Smith,is an American translational research virologist,chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at the University of California San Diego,co-director of the San Diego Center for AIDS Research,and vice chair of research in the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego. His research interests include transmission,prevention,and treatment of both HIV and SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19). Since joining the UC San Diego faculty in 2003,Smith has been awarded more than $37 million in federal funding as a principal investigator. His research interests include transmission,prevention,and treatment of both HIV and COVID-19.
A. Eugene Washington is an American physician,clinical investigator,and administrator. He served as the chancellor for health affairs at Duke University,and the president and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System,from 2015 to 2023. His research considers gynaecology,health disparities,and public health policy. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1997 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science (HWSPH) is the University of California,San Diego's school of public and community health. The school currently offers programs leading to bachelors (B.Sc.),masters (MPH),doctoral (Ph.D.),and professional degrees. The school also offers a joint doctoral program in public health with San Diego State University.
