Dear Friends,
UCSF’s vision is to build upon its commitment to diversity by educating, training and employing a diverse faculty, staff and student body.
As chancellor, I am committed to furthering this vision to ensure that UCSF continues to excel at the highest levels. Diversity is a defining feature of California. It is also a critical element of our campus life, as the interaction among people of different backgrounds is essential to achieving excellence in teaching, research, patient care and public service and to fulfilling our mission of advancing health worldwide™.
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Susan Fisher, PhD, director of the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program, part of the Eli & Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF, explains why she values diversity at UCSF.
“Our group has always worked on a diverse set of projects that use a wide array of scientific tools. I think that this approach has really helped to advance all facets of our work because we look at scientific problems from many different vantage points. I think that it equally important to work with a team that brings diverse perspectives (e.g., cultural, regional, ethnic, and/or gender) because we all approach problems in different ways.”
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Alicia Gonzalez-Flores
Medical Student
Voices is a series of videos profiling diverse members of the campus community to emphasize the importance of diversity to UCSF's identity.