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Upcoming Events
- The Language Access in Healthcare Symposium - West, a MERC co-sponsored event, will be held on Friday, April 10, 2026 from 8:30am-4:00pm at UCSF Mission Bay, WGVCV Rooms 107/108. All event details including registration and agenda are available here.
The 2026 "It's About a Billion Lives: Together for Health Equity" Annual Symposium, a MERC co-sponsored event, will be held on Friday, April 17, 2026 from 9am-3pm at UCSF Mission Bay, Robertson Auditorium.
- Keynote Speaker, Dr. Andy Tan.
- Research presentation from the 2026 UCSF Emerging Health Equity Scholar Awardees will be delivered in the afternoon.
- The symposium is open to the UCSF community and public to attend. Registration link will be available soon.
Past Events
- The MERC and WHCRC Research Symposium, was held virtually on Thursday, May 1, 2025, from 11am-1pm PST
- Keynote Speaker, Dr. Melissa Simon.
- Research presentations from the 2025 MERC & WHCRC Emerging Health Equity Scholar Awardees: Drs. Sarah Garrett, Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, and Daisy Leon-Martinez.
- Recording available here (UCSF login required)
- The 17th Annual UCSF Health Equity and Anti-Racism Research (HEAR) Symposium, a MERC co-sponsored event, was held on Wednesday, October 9, 2024 with Keynote Speaker, Dr. Monica McLemore, Interim Director, Center for Anti-Racism, and Professor, Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing; and Professor, School of Public Health, at University of Washington. Watch the recording here.
- The 3rd Annual Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center in DGIM Research Symposium was held on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 from 11am-1pm via Zoom.
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Arleen F. Brown, Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Reserach at UCLA. She serves as Co-Director of the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Co-Leader the CTSI’s Community Engagement and Research Program.
- Research presentations from the 2024 MERC Emerging Health Equity Scholar Awardees: Aayush Khadka, PhD, Lingsheng Li, MD, MHS, Wagahta Semere, MD, MHS, and Sophia Zamudio-Haas, DrPH, MSc.
- To watch the video of the symposium visit: https://youtu.be/Bakx_Oy5q_c
- The Annual UCSF Health Equity and Anti-Racism Research Symposium (HEAR) held on Thursday, October 5, 2023 with Keynote Speaker, Dr. Thomas LaVeist, Dean of the Tulane University, School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. Event details here.
- The 2nd Annual UCSF MERC Research Symposium, held on Friday, April 14, 2023 from 12-1:30 PM PST (fully virtual)
Keynote Speaker: Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is the 17th Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the American Medical Association. She is the Lee Goldman, MD Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. She previously served as the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and as the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine. She co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital that focuses on actionable research to improve health equity and reduce health disparities.
The three Emerging Health Equity Scholar Awardees, Elissa Hamlat, PhD, Nhung Nguyen, PhD, and Charles Windon, MD presented brief research talks.
To watch the video of the symposium visit: https://youtu.be/hx5N771lcjg
- Annual UCSF Health Equity & Anti-Racism Research (HEAR) Symposium (formerly HDRS), a MERC co-sponsored event, held on October 13 & 14, 2022. To see posters and videos of the symposium click here.
- Handling Other Language Interview Data webinar held on Sept. 30th, 2022.
- CARE Brain Trust Meeting held on Sept. 19th, 2022.
- MERC Annual Research Symposium & Emerging Health Equity Scholar Award held on June 3, 2022.
Keynote speaker, MERC co-founder and Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Dr. Eliseo Pérez-Stable presented "How Science can Promote Health Equity".
The three Emerging Health Equity Scholar awardees Dr. Jennifer James, Dr. Miranda Hill, and Dr. Rachel Sklar presented brief research talks.
To watch the video of the symposium visit: https://youtu.be/prLEgQVuFTY
- IHPS Grand Rounds on Data Equity with Ninez Ponce held on June 15, 2022.
To watch the video of the talk visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHZOYNiCRY
- UCSF Care Registry Brain Trust Meeting held on February 28 2022
- UCSF Tobacco Symposium: It's About a Billion Lives held on January 28, 2022
A MERC co-sponsered event.
To watch the video of the symposium visit: https://lecture.ucsf.edu/ets/Play/56e5a3304afa419b9e80b944e5d6caf01d
- Fireside Chat with Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez and A Talk with the Creator of La Borinqueña held on October 26, 2021
La Borinqueña creator Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez takes part in a special panel discussion for UCSF about his creation of the the critically acclaimed and bestselling superhero series La Borinqueña. He talks about his character as a champion of social justice, why representation matters, and how young people can advocate for a more equitable future.
To watch the video of the chat visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKg8jtwzOg
- 14th Annual Health Disparities Research Symposium held on October 14 and 15, 2021
Showcasing health disparities research, inspiring future collaboration, and building community across disciplines.
To view full agenda and posters visit: https://epostersonline.com/hdrs2021/