Paula Braveman Biography

Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Paula Braveman, MD, MPH, is the Director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). For more than 25 years, Dr. Braveman studied and published extensively on health equity and the social determinants of health, and has worked to bring attention to these issues in the U.S. and internationally. Her research focused on measuring, documenting, understanding, and addressing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities, particularly in maternal and infant health. She collaborated with World Health Organization staff in Geneva to develop a global initiative on equity in health and health care during the 1990s. She has been the Research Director for the national commission on the social determinants of health in the U.S. supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with local, state, federal, and international health agencies to see rigorous research translated into practice with the goal of achieving greater equity in health. In 2002, she was elected to the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) and has served on the Advisory Council of the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities of NIH.

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