Hello DEB colleagues!
It was great to see many of you in person in December, and I'm really looking forward to our upcoming DEB Day on January 20. I hope you love reading our newsletter as I do, and learning about all the great stuff our faculty and staff are doing…even with changes in leadership, the holidays, the historic rains, and the ongoing frustrations of the pandemic.
DEB staff members make this possible, and they don't often get the credit they deserve for all that they do making educational programs run, organizing seminars, supporting students, analyzing data, helping us stay in touch with one another, and advancing DEI objectives. So here's a special shout-out to all staff!
Hoping to see you all soon.
-Mark
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Iona Cheng was included among emerging investigators who were highlighted by the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine for her study of air pollution and lung cancer within the Multiethnic Cohort Study.
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Salma Shariff-Marco and Iona Cheng received a new R01 award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to study the impact of structural racism on racial/ethnic inequities in mortality. They will investigate the contribution of structural racism to mortality among Black, Hispanic/Latino, Japanese American, and Native Hawaiian adults by leveraging the Multiethnic Cohort Study in California and Hawaii and including new measures of structural racism, such as housing, education, employment, criminal justice, political participation, and healthcare.
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Erin Van Blarigan, along with Iona Cheng and June Chan, received a two-year American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) Investigator-Initiated Research Grant to study health behaviors and colorectal cancer survival in the Multiethnic Cohort Study.
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Lydia Zablotska was selected as a member of a special panel of the EPA’s Scientific Advisory Board called “Radionuclide Cancer Risk Coefficients.” This panel will provide independent advice to the EPA on radionuclide-specific cancer risk coefficients for incidence and mortality associated with internal exposure from ingestion and inhalation and external exposure to radionuclides in air, water, and soil. Dr. Zablotska is a principal investigator of the first international pooled analysis of uranium processing workers (iPAUW) from seven countries exposed to long-lived radionuclides in the nuclear fuel cycle.
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Please join an information session on UCSF's Health Data Science master's and certificate programs on January 25 from 12-1 p.m. Program director John Kornak, PhD, and program manager Eva Wong-Moy will share information about these programs and open the floor for a Q&A. Please register in advance to receive the Zoom link.
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PRISE Center call for Affiliates
The Partnerships for Research in Implementation Science for Equity (PRISE) Center is announcing a call for affiliate faculty. Please consider affiliating if you are UCSF faculty (all levels welcome) and conduct research, training, and/or career mentoring that incorporates implementation science methods to further health equity. Affiliate faculty will join a network of PRISE Center affiliates from other academic institutions in the U.S. and globally utilizing implementation science research methods to further health equity. Affiliates will also be invited to PRISE Center seminars and events. There is no major time commitment or expectations for affiliate faculty. Please fill out this brief survey by February 3, 2023, if you are interested. Feel free to contact Leah Murphy, PRISE senior program manager, with any questions: Leah.Murphy@ucsf.edu.
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SF Build shoutouts
The SF BUILD program, an NIH-funded partnership between UCSF and San Francisco State University (SFSU), aims to encourage people from historically underrepresented groups to pursue biomedical graduate study. Its student training component features a pipeline program to support undergraduates from SFSU in a research internship, with SFSU or UCSF professors as mentors, for 1-2 years prior to graduation.
The program has run for eight years with 102 scholars, and we are now in the 8th and final cohort. We are proud to see that 1 in 3 mentors this year comes from our department!
The current SF BUILD participants and mentors are:
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Carlos Cuevas, mentored by Salma Shariff-Marco;
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April Leung, mentored by Erin Van Blarigan and Greta Macaire;
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Grace Ogunfunmi, mentored by Patience Afulani;
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Elissa Sanders, mentored by Kim Rhoads;
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Kierra Smith, mentored by Kala Mehta;
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AC Star Talingdan, mentored by Iona Cheng and Scarlett Gomez;
- Rene Alegre, mentored by Carina Marquez;
- Esme Gleason, mentored by Greg Rebchook;
- Jana Lyn Fernandez, mentored by Michael Lipnick;
- Hannah Mendoza, mentored by Josh Wooley;
- Krishna Fernandez, mentored by Tiffany Kim;
- Nikoo Marageh, mentored by Alex Fishman and Lucy Kornblith;
- Christopher Saavedra, mentored by Vijay Namboodiri;
- A’lexus Taylor, mentored by Ralph Marcucio;
- Charlene Calderon, mentored by Matthew Spitzer;
- Alendra (Josephine) Ceron, mentored by Jose de la Torre (SFSU);
- Antoine Evans, mentored by Melissa Hagan (SFSU); and
- Adriel Evaristo, mentored by Andrea Swei (SFSU).
Thanks, too, to the DEB faculty who contributed to guest lectures over the summer when SF BUILD scholars were introduced to modules from the Designing and Conducting Research curriculum and used this knowledge to develop hypothetical research projects relevant to local communities. If you would like to learn more about the student training core of SF BUILD, please contact Kala Mehta or Meghan Morris.
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UCSF Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry recently released its annual report.
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Seeking K Scholars Program director
The Clinical and Translational Science Training program is seeking a new director to help lead the K Scholars Program at UCSF. The K Scholars Program supports the career development of approximately 80 junior faculty building careers in clinical and translational research with funding from institutional (KL2, K12) or external (NIH K) career development awards. The K Scholars Program provides an academically invigorating and supportive environment for junior faculty at UCSF and UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and the Kaiser Department of Research. Scholars receive mentorship and guidance from outstanding program faculty, all of whom are successful clinical and translational researchers with expertise in epidemiology, biostatistics, implementation sciences, scientific writing, and career mentoring. The program is based in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. The full post is here.
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George Rutherford is on a one-year sabbatical at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In early December, he visited the United Kingdom’s Health Security Agency – a successor to Public Health England that functions like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention do in the U.S., particularly for communicable diseases – to discuss advanced methods for HIV surveillance.
While there in Colindale, George gave a talk on surveillance for recent HIV infection with the help of IGHS’s Susie Welty. The UK has been employing recency testing for 10 years already and, interestingly, had no reported adverse events from reporting results to individuals who had tested positive for recent infection.
George also discussed surveillance for COVID-19 – for which the UK uses a large nationally representative cohort, much as was done for the Bay Area in the TRACK study – and surveillance for monkeypox and syphilis. Monkeypox incidence has declined sharply in the last few months, a decrease attributed to increased awareness and precautions, vaccination, and post-infection immunity. George plans to make similar visits to the other large disease control centers in Wales and Scotland in the new year.
We hope all is tickety-boo, George!
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Highlights from the website |
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Diamond-Smith N, Lin S, Peca E, Walker D.
A landscaping review of interventions to promote respectful maternal care in Africa: Opportunities to advance innovation and accountability.
Midwifery. 2022;115:103488.
Nguyen AB, Kohn MA, Lentz R, Hansen SL.
A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of Early Ambulation after Groin Reconstruction with Sartorius Muscle Flaps.
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2022;10(11):e4665.
Haslam A, Olivier T, Tuia J, Prasad V.
A systematic review of basket and umbrella trials in oncology: the importance of tissue of origin and molecular target.
Eur J Cancer. 2022;178:227-233.
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If your publication has been omitted from the list, please contact Cameron Scott so he can address the issue.
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