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Read about how the Department of Medicine is responding to the outbreak of the coronavirus respiratory illness COVID-19. See related COVID-19 publications.

Brie Williams Quoted in "California's San Quentin prison declined free coronavirus tests and urgent advice — now it has a massive outbreak"
Brie Williams, MD, MS is quoted in the Journal Nature article "California's San Quentin prison declined free coronavirus tests and urgent advice — now it has a massive outbreak". “We have pushed for a scientific response from the very beginning,” says Brie Williams, the director of Amend, a group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), that consults on health care at California’s prisons. “That science is being overshadowed by the politics of our society’s refusal to understand that it is not business as usual right now.”

Lindsey Criswell Named UCSF Vice Chancellor of Research
Lindsey A. Criswell has been named vice chancellor for research for UCSF. Criswell will direct UCSF’s effort to advance innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary biomedical research across the University’s professional schools and graduate programs.