Annual UCSF Health Equity and Anti-Racism Research Symposium

UCSF HEAR Symposium 2024

Wednesday, October 9, 2024
8AM - 3PM
Mission Bay Conference Center | 1675 Owens Street

The annual UCSF Health Equity and Anti-Racism Research (HEAR) Symposium showcases research and action to advance health equity and anti-racism. Our purpose is to inspire future collaborations and research direction by highlighting the breadth and depth of health equity, health disparities and anti-racism research. The goal of the symposium is to build community among researchers across disciplines and across units, schools and campus sites and the wider Bay Area.

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Keynote

Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN

  • Interim Director, Center for Anti-Racism; Professor, Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing; Professor, School of Public Health, University of Washington School of Nursing
  • Immediate Past Chair, Sexual and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association (2020-2026)
  • Board Member, Black Mama Matter Alliance
  • Editor in Chief, Health Equity Journal

Sponsorship

Opportunities to sponsor HEAR Symposium are open at a range of funding levels for both UCSF and external organizations. Sponsorship supports the ability to offer HEAR symposium as a free event dedicated to furthering collaboration and innovation in research that centers health equity and anti-racism.

All sponsors are recognized in symposium program and materials with expanded level benefits including an opportunity to table at the event, thank you items, and special event invitation.

Become a HEAR Sponsor


Abstract Information

  • Abstracts can be submitted for work that has been presented elsewhere or submitted to a journal for publication, but not for work that has already been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
  • We encourage first authors at all levels from students to full professors. The first author will be the presenter if selected for a plenary presentation.
  • Each person can be first author on only one submission.
  • Faculty, staff, and trainees affiliated with San Francisco Bay Area health care and research institutions are eligible to submit abstracts.

Structured abstracts are required and must conform to the following organization.

Non-conforming abstracts will not be reviewed.

  1. All required components of the abstract including the title and all authors must fit on 1-page and must be in 11-point font.
  2. The body of the abstract (Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions) must not exceed 400 words.
  3. Up to 2 figures, graphs or tables are permitted as along as it fits on the 1-page limit with all other required components of the abstract.
  4. Please submit abstracts as PDF files. Save the PDF file name by: First Author Last name and first initial-Name of Abstract (e.g., Rivera A.-Abstract2023.pdf).
  5. Required components of the abstract:
    • Title. No all caps, quotes, underlining or bolding.
    • Authors.Please list all authors by last name and initials and academic/professional affiliation. Please indicate the academic/professional title of first author.
    • Background. Describe the context and importance of the study and specify the purpose or goal of the study.
    • Methods. Include a description of the methods used including setting, population, sampling techniques, measures, and analytical procedures.
    • Results. A summary of results presented in sufficient detail to support the conclusions. Up to 2 tables, graphs or figures are permitted as long as the entire abstract is on one page.
    • Conclusions. State the implications of the findings for clinical practice, research, education, or policy. We strongly discourage abstracts that have not yet produced results. Statements such as "The results will be discussed" or "Other data will be presented” are not acceptable.

Accessibility Information

UCSF is committed to making its facilities, activities and events accessible in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. For accommodations, please contact HEAR - Diversity and Outreach.


2023 Poster Presentations

Addiction Medicine

Isabela Cruz-Vespa
Vicarious Racism and Substance Use: Advancing Our Understanding of Modern Race-Related Stressors in the U.S.

Neia Prata Menezes
Characterizing factors associated with as-needed naltrexone adherence among sexual and gender minority men (SGM) with mild to moderate alcohol use disorder (AUD)

Wendy Xia
Improving Knowledge and Attitudes towards Opioid Overdose Response: Pharmacy Student-led Training for Laypeople


Chronic Disease and Risk Factors

Diana Del Rosario
Filipino young leaders program (FYLPRO) tayohelp.com: Promoting health equity through evaluation of culturally-tailored heart health education materials and recommendations for community outreach

Anmol Gupta
Medication Continuity Following Release from Correctoonal Facili)es: A Landscape Analysis of State Policies

Elissa Hamlet
Childhood Adversity of Mother Accelerates Offspring Biological Aging

Antony Nguyen
Associatoon of adverse childhood experiences and multimorbidity within young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2019-2020

Robert Short
Comparing coronary artery cross-sectional area among asymptomatic South Asian, White, and Black participants: the MASALA and CARDIA studies

Ashley Nicole Smith
Addressing Barriers to Care for African American Men Facing Prostate Cancer: A Scoping Review of Navigation Programs

Kayla Tewahade
Prevalence and Correlates of Depression Among Men who have sexwith men (MSM) Who Use Alcohol in San Francisco, California

Rejvir Wraich
Prevalence of Undetected Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in the Punjabi, Sikh American Community: A Preliminary Data Analysis


Clinical Care

Bradley Bedell | presented by Jill Goslinga
ALS Satellite Clinics Improve Access for Vulnerable Populations: UCSF ALS satellite clinic patients are more likely to be non-white and elderly yet have higher ALS-FRS-R scores at initial clinic visit

Taylor Cuffaro
UCSF Street Nursing

Kay Jones
Understanding Experiences of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in Order to Advance Anti-Racism in Clinical Practice

Shyam Patel
Formal Fatty Liver Education Increases Uptake of Physical Activity in Vulnerable Populations, Including Those with Heavy Alcohol Use

Akshar Rambuchan
Inequities in pain assessment across demographic and geriatric-related variables in older, hospitalized adults

Bow Suprasert
Factors associated with long wait times to receive gender-affirming surgery referrals among trans women in San Francisco Bay Area

Marilyn Thomas
Hepatitis C virus-related liver cancer among Medicaid recipients with schizophrenia, 2002-2012

Margaret Tsui
Allele-specific expression analysis identifies novel dysregulated genesin prostate tumors from African-American men

Nancy Yang
Inequities in inpatient opioid prescription by sex


Covid-19

Nhung Nguyen
Factors associated with anxiety and depression among US adults during the pandemic: findings from the COVID-19 Citizen Science Study

Natalie Paola Granados
Perceptions of Vaccines & Access to Healthcare among Black & Latinx Youth and Young Adults during Times of Crisis: the Covid-19 Pandemic


Digital Health

Jarschire Dennis
Using Technology to Increase Collaboration between Siloed Serving Agencies to Improve Access to Care for System-Involved Youth

Anthony Louie
Development of an English/Chinese Smartphone Application and an Electronic Health Record Data Dashboard to Collect and DisplayPatient-Reported Outcomes for Chronic Disease Management in Adult Primary Care

Elizabeth McBride
Co-Design of the RAISE Mobile Health Intervention to Advance Mental Health Equity for Caregivers of Youth in Juvenile Hall

Jonathan Prugh
Testing the patience of our patients: accessibility-testing a SMS/web-based PHQ-9 tool


Environmental Equity

Kimberly Badal
Association Between Race and Ethnicity, Area Deprivation, and Exposure to Environmental Toxins in the WISDOM Clinical Trial Population

Emma Sage
Assessing linkage between air quality monitoring and sociodemographic factors in California

Jessica Trowbridge
Leveraging scientific research to improve federal chemical regulation and reduce environmental health disparities in the US


Global Health Equity

Samrawit Agezew
Analysis of Evidence Supporting NCCN Harmonized Guidelines for Breast Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa

Juliana Friend
Digital Privacy is a Health Necessity: Lessons from Senegalese Sex Workers


Health Communicaton

Brittany Campbell
Collaborative Engagement of African American Prostate Cancer Survivors to Design a Navigation Program and Improve Communication

Bansri Doshi
A qualitative study to explore the impact of language discordance on development of a patient-clinician relationship

Jennifer Ren
Patient and Provider perspectives on dental care communication and teach-back education for patients with limited English proficiency


Health Policy

Abigail Arons
Institutonal Challenges to Advance Health Equity: Lessons from an Economic Intervention in CA

Whitney Wells
Health effects of U.S. state paid family leave policies: A quasi experimental analysis


IDEA Training

Aliyyat Afolabi
Effectiveness of short form informed consent video in improving the consent process for adolescents and young adults

Yuri Cartier
Development of anti-racism guidelines for social care research

Tiffany Chambers
"This is Not For Me": BIPOC Experiences of DEI Trainings

Sarah Garrett
Shifting the culture and the way that we practice: Perinatal clinicians' cognitive and behavioral changes in response to antiracism and antibias interventions

Harpreet Ghotra
Evaluation of Partnerships of Local Oral Health Programs (LOHPs) with Local Dental Practices in California: A Qualitative Analysis

Lauren Haack
Informing Efforts to Implement Anti-Racist, Inclusive, and Authentic Partnered Research in Psychiatry: Preliminary Needs Assessment

Sahru Keiser
Identifying the components of a national intervention led by Black nurses to increase representation of Black communities in clinical trials on dementia

DesHnee Lewis
Creating a youth advisory to center Black adolescent girls voices insexual and reproductive health research


Racism & Discrimination

Alizah Ali
Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Mental Health Emergency SeNngs(The ARiES Project): Focus Group Findings

Marcelle Dougan
Discriminatoon experiences among Asian American and PacificIslander adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: Updated findings fromthe COMPASS study

Luisa Alejandra Tello-Perez
Association of discrimination experiences with worries about accessing contraceptive care among community college students in Texas and California

Jessa Culver
Caregiver Experiences of Racialization While Accessing Early Intervention (EI) Services for their Children

Anya Platt
Experiences of discriminatoon and financial toxicity among caregiversof children with cancer


Social Determinants of Health

Sara Abrahams
A Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Transportatoon Barriers Screening and Address Transportation-Related No Shows in Adult Primary Care

Hannah El-Sabrout
Race as a proxy: An exploration of the use of race in clinical practice

Orlando Harris
"I just feel like our skin color is what's the target:" A Qualitative Exploration of the Impact of Mass Shootings on the Mental Health of Black and Latino MSM in California and New York

Kamya Krishnan
Investigating the Influence of Social Determinants of Health on Retention Rates in a Hypertension Clinical Study


Tobacco & Cannabis

Dian Gu
Psychosocial and structural factors associated with tobacco and substance use-related disease risk for cancer, HIV and cardiovascular among people experiencing homelessness

Sabrina Islam
Impact over intent: Insights from community engaged research with American Indian communities to address commercial tobacco and cannabis use disparities

Devin McCauley
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Use of Nicotine, Non-Nicotine, and Cannabis E-cigareees


Workforce

Jessica Always
Supporting community-engaged research staff working with people experiencing homelessness

Renee Mehra
How a mentoring program for BIPOC students also supports BIPOC mentors: Findings from the evaluation of the California Midwifery Mentoring + Belonging Program

Genievive Del Mundo Mendieta
Capacity-Building program to enhance Insider Researcher workforce for Health Equity

Charis Turner
PRIME Time: Outcomes of A Longitudinal Mentorship Program for Underrepresented Pre-Medical Students

Alexandra Velasquez
Clinical Research Coordinators: Learners for Equity (CIRCLE): Gaps to Diversifying the Clinical Research Workforce

 

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Participants of the 2023 HEAR Symposium are seated in a well-lit gymnasium smiling and watching a speaker at the front of the room out of view.
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Participants of the 2023 HEAR Symposium are seated in a well-lit gymnasium smiling and watching a speaker at the front of the room out of view.

2023 HEAR Symposium

Tung Nguyen, MD, professor of Medicine and Associate Vice Chancellor of Research-Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) at UCSF, moderates 2023 HEAR Symposium short poster presentations.