Webinar Series

Josué Rojas is a San Francisco based painter –– a muralist, fine artist, and educator.

Dr. Alicia Fernandez, Professor of Medicine at UCSF, a general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Associate Dean of Population Health, and Health Equity for UCSF SOM. She is the founding Director of the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence.

Melissa Gee is the Operations Manager with Supply Chain Management at University of California San Francisco.

Precious Ogbonna, YMCA Youth Development Director is the Associate Teen Director for the Buchanan YMCA. She has worked in youth development for the YMCA of San Francisco for the past nine years. She has been helping youth and teens explore the concepts of civic engagement, workforce development, and health equity.

Anda Kuo, Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, helped to establish the cross-bay UCSF Center for Child and Community Health. She currently serve as the Department's Director of Health Equity and Community Engagement and senior advisor for the UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN).

Megie Okumura, is dual-board certified in General Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. She is aimed at studying and formulating interventions that will address barriers and facilitators to chronic illness care for children with special health care needs as they transition from the pediatric to adult health care setting.

Brandi Gates-Burgess, Lactation Consultant at Highland Hospital, Community Researcher and Community Engagement Specialist for the MILK Research Lab, Community Advisory Board member for the UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative, Co-chair for The Breastfeeding Cultural Outreach Taskforce (BCOT), and founder of Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services.

Dr. Brittany Chambers-Butcher, tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at UC Davis. She is a community health scientist whose program of research merges critical and public health theories to partner with Black women and birthing people to better understand, operationalize and dismantle racism.

Anusha M. Vable is an Associate Professor, Social Epidemiologist, and the director of VabLab, a large research team at UCSF that focuses on identifying and advocating for structural solutions to health inequities.