UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

Beyond the hype: What AI really means for the HIV response This webinar will address key questions about artificial intelligence and its role in strengthening the HIV response

🩺 🌍 Calling all global health professionals!

Whether you're just beginning your career in global health or seeking new ways to integrate global health into your clinical practice, this two-day conference provides the tools, connections, and practical insights you need.

Now in its fourth year, the UCSF Building a Career in Global Health continuing medical education (CME) conference returns to San Francisco from Nov. 7 – 8, 2025, gathering distinguished global health experts from UCSF and other institutions with prominent global health programs nationwide for an engaging series of lectures, interactive workshops, and meaningful networking opportunities. Participants will gain actionable strategies for success working in resource-limited settings both internationally and domestically, in areas such as building effective partnerships, developing programs, securing project funding, and navigating job negotiations.

This event is open to all health care professionals: physicians, nurses, students, trainees, and allied health providers. Join us to expand your career — and community — in global health!

The UCSF Building a Career in Global Health is presented by the UCSF:
🔹 UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine
🔹 UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS)

In partnership with:
🔹 Stanford University
🔹 Loma Linda University Medical Center
🔹 Highland Medical Center
🔹 Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
🔹 Denver Health

Learn more and register at tiny.ucsf.edu/GlobalHealthCMEConference.
Stay tuned for location details!

UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences has partnered with Vitalant to host a blood drive on Wednesday, June 18, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the lobby at Mission Hall, 550 16th Street, on the Mission Bay campus.

All donors who sign up with the Donors Reward Program will receive a $10 gift card and a chance to win a $10,000 gift card!

You can schedule an appointment at UCSF Blood Drive, or go to https://www.vitalant.org/ and enter Blood Drive code UCSF, or call 877-258-4825.

Please review donor eligibility at https://www.vitalant.org/eligibility/blood-donation-requirements

Question? Contact [email protected]

Join UCSF in celebrating LGBTQ+ pride at the SF Pride Parade on Sunday, June 29!

Open to all UCSF students, staff, trainees, faculty and family/friends. Register by June 25.

For more information and to register, visit https://bit.ly/PRIDE2025

Join us for IGHS Grand Rounds with Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH. She will talk about the future of HIV prevention.

June 4, 2025, 11 a.m. to noon PT
Genentech Hall, Byers Auditorium
Register for Zoom at https://ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o47vFNMQQRKL00wfRyiXGQ

Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was approved in 2012 and we now have new options for HIV prevention, both approved and on the horizon. With these tools and HIV treatment we could end the HIV epidemic but we are in a challenging time where this goal is severely threatened. Dr. Gandhi will discuss available and future HIV prevention options and what’s at stake for not investing in advancing our HIV prevention goals worldwide.

Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the Medical Director of the HIV Clinic (“Ward 86”) at San Francisco General Hospital. She serves as the Associate Program Director of the ID fellowship at UCSF. Her research focuses on HIV treatment and prevention optimization, HIV and women, adherence measurement in HIV and TB, adherence interventions, and optimizing the use of long-acting antiretroviral therapy (ART).

UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event because of a disability, please contact Pilar Deer at [email protected] as soon as possible.

Join us for a talk with David McIver, PhD, on

The Origins of Ebola as a Human Pathogen
May 28, 2025, noon to 1 p.m. PDT
Mission Hall, Room 3500 and via Zoom

Register for Zoom at https://ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/register/Fihvk77-QO-0hcdR--Zd3Q

Human-driven land use change (LUC) increases disease spillover and drives viral evolution. This research links LUC to the emergence and spread of Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) and Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV). The phylogeographic analysis traces EBOV’s origins to 1960 in the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo and SUDV’s to 1958 in Sudan. Landscape fragmentation coincided with viral divergence, expansion and genetic mutations, suggesting host adaptation. The findings highlight LUC’s role in shaping virus evolution and increasing spillover risk.

UCSF welcomes everyone, including people with disabilities, to our events. To request reasonable accommodations for this event, please email [email protected] as soon as possible.

Graphic: headshot of McIver and event details

Interested in our Master of Science in Global Health program?

Please join us for a virtual information session on May 20, 9 to 10 a.m PST.
Register at https://ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsc-iopz0jG9DgUpFlprYsJFz5acaiMIJM #/registration

Program Director Chris Carpenter, MD, MPH, and Associate Director Ingrid Chen, PhD, MS '13, will present an overview of the program and admissions process. There will Q&A at the end.

Join the Malaria Elimination Initiative at IGHS to learn about:

Enhancing Respiratory Care in Uganda with Digital Support
May 21, 2025, noon to 1 p.m. PST
Mission Hall, Room 3500 and via Zoom (register at
https://ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/register/lf4tYMRaSUSPTEHJRwTx_A #/registration)

Acute lower respiratory illnesses (ALRI) are a leading cause of death in young children globally. We developed the ALRITE mobile app to assist frontline health workers in Uganda. Originally focused on ALRI, the app now covers other acute childhood illnesses in East Africa through a partnership with Global Strategies. This talk will explore the challenges and opportunities in developing, testing, and implementing mobile health technologies in resource-limited settings, with an emphasis on digital clinical decision support. We will also share insights into our collaborative efforts and the impact on pediatric healthcare delivery.

Laura Ellington, MD, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at the University of Washington, pediatric pulmonologist at Seattle Children’s hospital and associate director of the pulmonary fellowship program. Her research focuses on improving the diagnosis and management of pediatric respiratory illnesses in East Africa.

UCSF welcomes everyone, including people with disabilities, to our events. To request reasonable accommodations for this event, please contact Christine Su by emailing [email protected] as soon as possible.

There’s still time to apply to the UCSF Master’s in Global Health at the Institute for Global Health Sciences! As global health challenges evolve, we are going to need highly skilled global health professionals to problem-solve and work with those most affected both domestically and globally. This degree offers hands-on experience through independent capstone projects tailored to students’ interests and in partnership with academic institutions, Ministries of Health or NGOs in the U.S. or around the globe. Choose from a one-year full-time or two-year part-time track. Learn more and apply: https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/education/masters.

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orld Malaria Day is April 25 and this year it is more important than ever. Join the Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) for this year’s Bay Area World Malaria Day Forum. Malaria researchers, advocates, organizations and funders, are invited to exchange information and ideas and build collaboration for the malaria fight.

Date: April 25, 2025
Time: 8 a.m. to noon (breakfast will be provided)
Location: UCSF Mission Bay and via Zoom
Register: https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3BHEqXVhH8KeylE

Join the UCSF Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA) at IGHS in celebrating their 5th anniversary! This event is open to all—CHESA members, faculty, current and prospective trainees and fellows, partners and students eager to learn more about our work and community and ways to get involved.

CHESA 5th Anniversary Community Event
Tuesday, April 22, 9 a.m. to noon PT

Part 1: 9 to 10:30 a.m. PT | 7 to 8:30 p.m. (East Africa Time) via Zoom and in person at:
UCSF Parnassus Heights, Aldea Center at Mount Sutro, 155 Johnstone Dr., San Francisco

Part 2: 10:30 a.m. to noon PT – in person only at:
UCSF Parnassus Heights, Aldea Center at Mount Sutro, 155 Johnstone Dr., San Francisco

For more information and for a Zoom link, visit https://globalsurgery.org/updates/event-chesa-5th-anniversary-community-event-on-tuesday-april-22-2025/

Photo: CHESA faculty, fellows and international collaborators standing together at the 2024 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress in San Francisco