Talking About Palestine is an Exercise in Public Health For the past 17 months, we have witnessed in real-time how a genocide unfolds and what the essential components of it are. March 25, 2025 Abu Taha Social Justice
This Date in UCSF History: Gender Equity Backlash May 7, 2024Synapse[Originally authored by Dr. Amy Levine — Director of UCSF’s Center for Gender Equity — and published in Synapse on... Social Justice
This Date in UCSF History: LGBTQI Health Forum A Success April 9, 2024Synapse[Originally published in Synapse on April 5, 2012.] Over 200 students and community members flocked to a two-day UCSF LGBTQI... Social Justice
This is a Sick Note March 26, 2024Shradha RanganathThis is a sick note. A sick note for a nation that is perpetually tired. Tired because we have been... Social Justice
Toward Justice: An Urgent Appeal for A Ceasefire in Gaza March 19, 2024Mayar DahmaniIn the war-torn town of Gaza, Palestine, where the echoes of desperate pleas for a ceasefire reverberate through the rubble-filled... Social Justice
This Date in UCSF History: Empowering Nurses March 19, 2024Synapse[Originally published in Synapse on March 20, 1974.] Wilma Scott Heide, the first nurse to be elected national president of... Social Justice
Beyond Judgment: Empathy as the Antidote in the Opioid Crisis March 12, 2024Kaitlin LinneA place where individuals can inject drugs with either in-person or virtual supervision may sound like a dystopian reality, but... Social Justice
This Date in UCSF History: Anti-LGBTQ Law Passes March 12, 2024Synapse[Originally published on March 9, 2000.] As many people in the community had anticipated, Proposition 22, which limited the definition... Social Justice
This Date in UCSF History: A Hopeful Era for Women March 5, 2024Synapse[Originally published in Synapse on March 5, 1990.] We live in an exciting time. Throughout the world, walls we once... Social Justice
Protecting Medication Abortion is Reproductive Justice February 27, 2024Kristen FuThe next attack on abortion rights in the United States threatens far-reaching and drastic consequences on the state of reproductive... Social Justice