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The UCSF Pandemic Initiative for Equity and Action group (UPIEA) is a multidisciplinary group of health researchers and practitioners from across the UCSF community who are committed to addressing and redressing inequalities in health locally and globally through pandemic response.

Our Approach

As an initiative, we understand that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for every state, country or region. Solutions need to be built for, with input from, and ideally by, local communities in their own cultural and operational context.

 

We leverage our collective expertise in global health, program management, epidemiology, community engagement, behavioral health, implementation science, monitoring and evaluation, data analysis and informatics, and clinical medicine to provide the technical assistance to support the development and implementation of local solutions.

We Believe

All people deserve the ability to lead healthy lives, regardless of their race, color, or ethnicity, income, socioeconomic status, age, sex, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, immigrant status, disability status, parental status, or pregnancy status. 

 

The current COVID-19 pandemic is our public health call to action. We are dedicated to leading the change to redress historical health inequalities. Our success will be gauged by how we support the weakest and most vulnerable among us, not by the size of the grants secured or scholarly papers written.   

 

News

June 29, 2022

Budget Agreement Sets California on New Course for Public Health, Equity

June 29, 2022

PhD student Lucia Abascal models public health communications in Spanish – and wins

April 28, 2022

5K for Vaccine Equity Raises $23,000 for COVAX

February 09, 2022

Community-centered Approaches to Vaccine Communications (Video)

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