Dr. Paula Braveman

Paula Braveman, MD, MPH is Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco. She is trained as a physician and in public health. For over three decades, she has studied and published extensively on health equity and the social determinants of health, and worked with local, state, national, and international health agencies to bring attention to these issues domestically and internationally. Her research focuses on measuring, understanding, and addressing racial and socioeconomic disparities in health, particularly in maternal and infant health. She was elected to the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) in 2002.