February 2020

By Sonia Ghandi, UCSF GRACE Initiative, February 26, 2020 UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies held its annual Chancellor’s Health Policy Lecture Series on February 13 th , 2020. This Lecture Series was established in 2006 with the aim to highlight the important role and impact of health policy on the UCSF community by brining outstanding health policy leaders to the UCSF campus. This year’s lecture was given by Nadine Bruke Harris, MD, MPH, FAAP, on applying the science of...

By Kristen Harknett and Daniel Schneider, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, February 14, 2020 What’s the Issue? Work has become more precarious in America over the past half century as employers have transferred more of the risks and uncertainties of doing business onto workers and households. As part of this shift, many workers have experienced an erosion of job quality—reductions in the real value of their wages; a loss or cutback of fringe benefits such as retirement plans and health...

By Andrea Schneider, PsychCentral, February 7, 2020 Did you know that the second leading cause of death in people ages 15-22 is suicide (ACHA, 2020)? Those are some sobering statistics. After a recent move from S CA to N Ca, I am currently serving in a new role in which I am the Lead Counselor on a college campus for this age range. Unfortunately, those statistics don’t lie. I am deeply involved in creating new programs, strategies, and direct clinical support for the students my campus...