Research from International Journal of Nursing Practice: "The Impact of Intra-Hospital Transfers on Patient Outcomes and/or Hospital Costs: A Scoping Review" — Doleman et al. Featuring IHPS Faculty: Joanne Spetz, PhD Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

UCSF IHPS's Anil Makam on a high-profile Nature Medicine retraction of a time-of-day immunotherapy trial based on his AAOx2 substack post detailing concerning issues. ‘Too Good to Be True’: A Chinese Study on Timing Cancer Therapy Is Retracted @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/b...

Research from Arthritis Care & Research: "Effect of Implementing a Dashboard with or without a Best Practice Alert on HLA-B*58:01 Testing Rates among Allopurinol Users at VA Medical Center" — Fadairo-Azinge et al. Featuring IHPS Faculty: Gabriela Schmajuk, MD & Mary Whooley, MD

Public health & policy leaders: people with functional impairments who lack spousal support need dedicated caregiving plans during public health emergencies. Don't leave them behind. New work by UCSF IHPS's Lei Chen and @joannespetz.bsky.social. #caregiving www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/23...

UCSF IHPS faculty Maria Raven via San Francisco Chronicle: What happens when an insurance company decides your health emergency wasn’t one? www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #EmergencyDepartment

Study from @JGIMJournal: "On Call or On Demand? Trends in Continuous Service Availability in California Emergency Departments, 2004–2024" — Spencer et al. Spotlighting IHPS Faculty & Staff: Christopher Toretsky, MPH & Renee Hsia, MD, MSc Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

UCSF IHPS faculty Elena Portacolone in San Francisco Chronicle Dementia is common for older adults living alone but many are not diagnosed, UCSF study finds www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic... #dementia #livingalone

UCSF IHPS faculty Laura Schmidt: UCSF study links tobacco industry to development of ultra-processed foods localnewsmatters.org/2026/06/06/u...

Study from Health Affairs: "Changes In Primary Care Physicians' Electronic Health Record Patterns After They Reduced Clinical Visit Volume" — Weinreb et al. Spotlighting IHPS Faculty: A Jay Holmgren, PhD, MS & Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA Read more here: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

"They used cigarette science to design these food products." UCSF IHPS's Laura Schmidt's study: How big tobacco helped shape the design of ultra-processed foods via @medicalxpress.com.web.brid.gy medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06...

UCSF IHPS faculty Laura Schmidt in @cnn.com: "We are not regulating enough chemical additives that go into ultraprocessed foods. We don’t have transparency into how these foods are created." www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/h...

UCSF IHPS affiliated faculty Lisa Rotenstein in @usnews.com Why Female Doctors Are Walking Away From Medicine – and How to Keep Them health.usnews.com/health-care/...

We see patients in severe opioid withdrawal from products sold legally as herbal supplements. 7-OH, the active ingredient, is a semisynthetic opioid 13xmore potent than morphine. Gas stations & vape shops have become dangerous, unregulated pharmacies. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

"What we have is probably too many in certain markets and too few in others," UCSF IHPS faculty, Anil Makam, MD, MAS, in Axios www.axios.com/2026/04/27/h...

UCSF IHPS's faculty Pamela Ling quoted in HuffPost: www.huffpost.com/entry/gen-z-...

Please join us for IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds today, May 6, 2026, from 12:00–1:00 PM, featuring Ziad Obermeyer, MD, MPhil.

We're delighted to welcome Emerging Scholar, Austin Kilaru, MD, MSHP, tomorrow, April 29, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM. Please feel free to reach out to Beth Thew at [email protected] for the Zoom link.

Join us tomorrow, April 9th from 12:00–1:00 PM for a book talk with David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, as he discusses WHIPLASH: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science. We hope to see you there!

Please join us virtually tomorrow, April 8, for our IMPACT + IHPS Policy Skills Series featuring a talk on Translating Cost and Cost-Effectiveness for Policymakers, presented by Reza Yaesoubi, PhD, and James Kahn, MD, MPH.

Please join us for IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds on tomorrow, April 1, 2026, from 12:00–1:00 PM, featuring Shekinah Fashaw-Walters, PhD.

We're delighted to welcome Emerging Scholar, Adam Horwitz, PhD, tomorrow, March 31, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM. Please feel free to reach out to Beth Thew at [email protected] for the Zoom link.

UCSF IHPS Faculty Robert Lustig in "What are obesogens? The sneaky metabolism killer lurking around your home". nypost.com/2026/03/19/h...

UCSF IHPS evaluation study featured in Blue Shield of California and California Department of Education Offer Youth Mental Health First Aid Training to California Teachers. news.blueshieldca.com/blue-shield-...

Please join us tomorrow, March 17, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM for our IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds with Gina Solomon, MD, MPH.

UCSF IHPS faculty member Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD, at Commonwealth Club World Affairs with The Lundberg Institute. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLnV...

Join IHPS at UCSF and The Lundberg Institute on March 9, online or in-person, as Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD gives a @cwclub.bsky.social talk, What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mean for the Health Sciences, and Why Big Data Needs Them All www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-...

UCSF IHPS faculty Theresa Cheng, MD, JD: As Trump’s immigration crackdown continues, hospitals have become a battleground @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

UCSF IHPS faculty member Beth Mertz, PhD, MA, on dental costs in the US. #latimes #dentalcost www.latimes.com/california/s...

Please join us tomorrow, March 4, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM for our IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds with Dorit Reiss, LLB, PhD.

“The question is whether we value the health of our children and the country’s future enough to act.”- UCSF IHPS's Janet Coffman Can a Med School’s Residency Pathway Cure the Pediatrician Shortage? www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/02...

A tremendous thank you to the Honorable Robert L. Santos for delivering our 2026 Chancellor’s Health Policy Lecture yesterday in addition to spending the day with our faculty and UCSF National Clinician Scholars Program fellows.

Please join us tomorrow, February 11, from 12:00–1:00 PM for our annual Chancellor’s Health Policy Lecture, “The Real Challenge Facing Researchers Is… Us!” a fireside chat with The Honorable Robert L. Santos.

Join UCSF IHPS and The Lundberg Institute on March 9, online or in-person, as Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD gives a @cwclub.bsky.social talk, What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mean for the Health Sciences, and Why Big Data Needs Them All www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-...

UCSF IHPS's Laura Schmidt joins Flora Lichtman. What might ultraprocessed food be doing to our health & what steps policymakers could take to help us eat less of them? Should Ultraprocessed Foods Be Off The Menu? www.sciencefriday.com/segments/usd...

Congratulations to UCSF IHPS faculty Melanie Molina, MD, MAS who received a 2026 JAMA Editorial Fellowship. Her research focuses on using electronic health record-based interventions to address social and behavioral needs in the emergency department. #JAMA media.jamanetwork.com/announcement...

When CA State Legislature needs advice on the most current health policy issues UCSF IHPS provides hands-on support w/the latest research & clinical expertise. Thanks to our faculty who presented at our annual health policy symposium in the State Capitol this week! #healthpolicy

UCSF IHPS faculty, Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS, in The Atlantic: Mini-marts such as 7-Eleven and Sheetz “have an outsized role in our food system because they are the only food access point in many neighborhoods." www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

New work by UCSF IHPS faculty member Sarah Garrett, PhD: “Shifting the Culture and the Way That We Practice”: Perinatal Clinicians' Cognitive, Behavioral, and Team‐Level Changes Following Equity‐Focused Interventions onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ucsf.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....

Stress matters now for kids, before they demonstrate visible harm finds the most comprehensive review to date by UCSF IHPS faculty Nicole Bush & colleagues. Trauma or Toxic? A Deep Dive into the Impact of Stress on Kids’ Health www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/01...

The IHPS + IMPACT Policy Skills Series will hold its next session tomorrow, 1/14/26 from 12:00pm-1:00pm with Sarah Roberts, DrPH. Please feel free to reach out to Beth Thew at [email protected] for the Zoom link. We hope to see many of you present virtually!

New work by UCSF IHPS faculty Alissa Bernstein Sideman ‘It keeps your body strong, your muscles strong, your brain strong:’ perceptions about the role of physical activity and nutrition in brain health among middle-aged Latinos www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Help kids resist the "addictive qualities" of phones at school urges UCSF IHPS faculty, Jason Nagata www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

Please join us tomorrow, January 7, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM for our IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds with Kitt Carpenter, PhD.

UCSF IHPS faculty, Anil Makam, on new WHO guidelines - "GLP-1 medications are the first truly effective class of drugs we’ve ever had to treat obesity,” Makam added the WHO guidelines may have actually undersold the benefits of these weight loss drugs. www.healthline.com/health-news/...

"Anytime I see public actors like the city of San Francisco or state level attorneys interested in litigation, I'm encouraged, because that's how we got the attention of the tobacco companies back in the 1990s," -UCSF IHPS faculty, Laura Schmidt www.advisory.com/daily-briefi...

UCSF IHPS faculty, Janet Coffman, on the impact to nurses of the proposed changes in professional degree categories and loan limits. Trump administration proposes to exclude education, social work, nursing from professional degrees www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

UCSF IHPS faculty Renee Hsia in @thenyt.bsky.social. When the G.O.P. Medicaid Cuts Arrive, These Hospitals Will Be Hit Hardest #HealthcareCuts #HealthCoverage #AccesstoCare #Medicaid www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

UCSF IHPS faculty Tracey Woodruff testifies at hearing. Senate hearing exposes divide over chemical safety law www.thenewlede.org/2025/10/tsca...

Trainings & other schoolwide awareness campaigns = awareness of the importance & acceptability of talking about mental health problems. UCSF IHPS's Sara Geierstanger in Evanston’s Mental Health First Aid training helps residents support one another in crisis dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/12/c...

Please join us tomorrow, December 3, 2025, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM for our IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds with Laura Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH, & Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS.