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Aug 24, 2018

The Sickness Lurking Beneath World Cup Fever

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.

Confronting Complacency in the Face of Calamity: Mobilizing for the Home Front War Against Diabetes

by Dean Schillinger, MD

Please see the recent thoughtpiece in the Journal of Endocrinology and Diabetes.

This paper outlines 6 root causes for this…

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Dec 13, 2016

Their Values and Ours

By Alicia Fernandez, MD

A really important Perspective piece was published recently in the NEJM, and I am proud to say that one of our colleagues, Margot Kushel, was senior author.

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Aug 1, 2016

Science and Public Health on Trial

by Dean Schillinger, MD

Our purpose in writing this piece was to alert the scientific, clinical, and public health communities about the outcome of the landmark decision regarding warning notices on advertisements for sugar sweetened beverages…

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Jun 13, 2016

Citizen Engagement in Precision Public Health

By Courtney Lyles, PhD and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD

At the Precision Public Health Summit held this week at UCSF (sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the White House Office of Science, Technology…

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Nov 5, 2015

Digital literacy and what it means for healthcare

by Courtney Lyles, PhD

Should healthcare organizations be taking a major role in increasing the overall digital literacy of their patients?

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Oct 14, 2015

Partnerships to Prevent Violence: ARISE

By Leigh Kimberg, MD

Each day, an overwhelming majority of our patients arrive in clinic wishing that their healthcare providers would ask them questions about how their personal relationships affect their health and, more…

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Sep 2, 2015

“Where Can This Person Go?”: A Plea for the Expansion of Medical Respite Services

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Jul 14, 2015

Connecting the dots: Health information technology expansion and health disparities

By Courtney Lyles, PhD, Dean Schillinger, MD and Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH

Check out our newest essay in PLOS Medicine outlining how health technology could be better designed and…

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Jun 18, 2015

Making Older Homelessness a Never Event

by Margot Kushel, MD

On April 2, Bevan Dufty, (@BevanDufty) the director of the HOPE program (Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement) for San Francisco (aka the official responsible for addressing homeless services and…