By: SOLVE Health Tech Last Tuesday, we held our first annual SOLVE Health Tech Summit with nearly 200 attendees representing 30 digital health companies, 25 venture capital funds, ten foundations, eight health systems, and five design agencies. The audience gathered to hear our vision for a new public-private partnership at…

By: Sarah Lisker Health technology promises to revolutionize medical care. With it, we can manage and reverse chronic disease, track fitness and nutrition, electronically connect patients to their doctors, and even integrate artificial intelligence into health delivery. But sadly, the medically underserved, who stand to gain the most from advancements…

By: Ashley McMullen, MD My Patient The day I met you was early in my second year of Internal Medicine residency. After much of my internship had been spent on arduous inpatient rotations, I was finally ready to lead my own team of young doctors and students on a high-acuity…

By: Chloe Ciccariello + Kenny Pettersen Quality improvement (QI) skills are becoming increasingly recognized as essential skills for the modern physician. These skills are even more critical for the primary care physician working in safety nets where technological and administrative support are lacking. While the American College of Graduate Education…

Since the beginning of the year, EatSF has worked alongside the Common Cents Lab, a behavioral science research lab at Duke University, to better understand and identify EatSF program improvements through a behavior economics lens. The behavior economics framework considers the factors that inform the economic decisions and habits of individuals. With their insight, we hope to make changes to the EatSF program that will better encourage sustained, long-term health behavior change in our participants long after their completion of the program.

By: Dean Schillinger, MD While watching the World Cup, Dean Schillinger was reminded of the ongoing back-and-forth matchup between the soda industry and public health advocates. Read more here

By: Sarah Lisker Two years ago, I left a burgeoning tech career and the perks of Silicon Valley to work at one of San Francisco’s oldest public institutions: San Francisco General Hospital. As I began settling into my job at the Center for Vulnerable Populations, my coworkers were welcoming, but…

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) was once called adult-onset diabetes. Now, T2D affects children of color at epidemic proportions. The Bigger Picture, a novel communication campaign co-created by UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations and Youth Speaks feature youth artists empowered to transform the conversation about T2D by confronting its social and…

By: Ryane Daniels, MPH Providing metformin, an affordable and effective diabetes medication, to lower income communities in Mexico is productive at preventing and treating diabetes onset. 450 patients under 65 years of age and who are overweight are currently enrolled in the PRuDENTE Initiative (Prevencion de Diabetes por Nutricion, Tratamiento…