Congratulations to Dr. Maria Chao
appointed Director of Research at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health and Osher Foundation Endowed Chair in Research in Integrative Health. Dr. Chao will lead the Center’s robust research program, which rigorously tests the effectiveness of integrative health approaches, how they work, and how they can be optimized to improve health and well-being.
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Congratulations to Dr. Alison Cohen
for her two new grants, "Evaluation Support for Newborn Supply Kit Initiative", a federal contract from the US Health and Human Services and "Modeling Disability-Adjusted Life Years Post-COVID Infection: Estimating the Impacts of Long COVID and Other Post-COVID Consequences", a grant from PolyBio Foundation.
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Congratulations to Drs. Van Park and Janice Tsoh
as MPIs of the CARE Registry, recently featured in the UCSF News Center. The CARE Registry is a health research registry of Asian American and Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) adults who are interested in participating in various types of research.
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Congratulations to Dr. Sheiphali Gandhi
for receiving the 2024 Irene Perstein Award in recognition of her research on silicosis and its prevalence in vulnerable workers in CA.
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"Novel Strategies to Promote Alignment between Healthcare and Social Care Systems By Addressing the Social Drivers of Health"
A recent publication by Dr. Elizabeth Dzeng in Critical Care Clinics.
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Congratulations to Dr. Veronica Yank
for her new NIA funded grant titled "Improving Incontinence Support for Family Caregivers and Persons Living with Dementia".
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"Interventions to Increase Affordable Care Act Marketplace Enrollment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"
A recent publication by Dr. Alison Cohen in Population Health Management.
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"The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative-4 (ADNI-4) Engagement Core: A culturally informed, community-engaged research (CI-CER) model to advance brain health equity"
A recent publication by Dr. Van Park in Alzheimer's & Dementia.
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Our Mission Statement

The mission of MERC is to promote equity in health and healthcare for ethnically and linguistically diverse groups through applied multidisciplinary research and by training the next generation of investigators committed to achieving health equity. We seek to discover the mechanisms that explain health disparities and to develop, evaluate, and implement interventions that prevent and treat disease and advance health equity within healthcare systems and communities.

To achieve our mission, we are committed to:

  • Ensuring research questions and results are relevant to the study populations and communities 
  • Using culturally appropriate and community-engaged methods to recruit study participants
  • Collecting disaggregated race/ethnicity data to track, monitor and eliminate disparities
  • Advocating for evidence-based policy and structural changes to advance equity in health and healthcare