Sharon Kaufman Appointed DAHSM Chair

This interdisciplinary department in the School of Medicine provides non-biomedical social science and humanities perspectives on health, illness, and disease. The Department runs three teaching and research programs, two in coordination with the University of California, Berkeley:

• Medical Anthropology
  (PhD program with the Department of Anthropology's Program in Critical Studies in Medicine, Science, and the Body)
• History of Health Sciences
  (PhD program with the Doctoral Program at the Office for the History of Science)
• Social Medicine
  (Activities organized through a multi-campus UC Medical Humanities Consortium)

In addition, the Department is home to the enter for Humanities and Health Sciences designed to foster intellectual interaction between students and faculty throughout the department, the four schools within UCSF, other UC Campuses, and other institutions.

The Department draws on many resources in the Bay Area for research, teaching, and collaborative projects. Many of our faculty have joint appointments with other academic units at UCSF and UC Berkeley. Particularly strong relations are enjoyed with UC Berkeley's Department of History (and the Office for History of Science and Technology), the Department of Anthropology, and UCSF's Institute for Health and Aging, Institute for Health Policy Studies, and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Mailing address:
Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine
Suite 485
3333 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94143-0850
FAX: 415-476-6715