Jane Jih, MD, MPH, MAS
Associate Clinical Professor
Jane Jih, MD, MPH, MAS, is a practicing general internist and investigator in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Jih's overall research program aims to reduce health disparities and promote health equity among multiethnic and linguistically diverse adults by developing and evaluating innovative, patient-centered interventions.
Dr. Jih is the Director of the Asian American Research Center on Health (https://asianarch.org/). She is also affiliated faculty of the UCSF Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Opportunity and Impact (AVC-ROI) and UCSF Office of Opportunity and Outreach as faculty lead of the annual Health Equity and Anti-Racism Research Symposium. Previously, she served as the Co-Director of the UCSF Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center and the UCSF Lead of the University of California Consortium on Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy & Community Priorities. Dr. Jih has been a member and Chairperson of the Advisory Committee on Minority Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health (2024-2025). Dr. Jih is a member of the editorial board of the journal Health Equity after serving as an Associate Editor.
She also engages in clinical ambulatory teaching of internal medicine residents, research mentoring of trainees, including predoctoral students, and directs the UCSF Primary Care Residency Resident Scholarship Program.
Current partner-engaged and practice-based research focuses on:
a) the impact of social determinants of health, including race and ethnicity, language and culture, on chronic disease care, particularly among those with multiple chronic conditions;
b) patient-clinician communication about social determinants of health and unmet health-related social needs such as food insecurity and transportation barriers;
c) use of photos as a tool to communicate about health and social factors important in chronic disease care. This work is based on the premise that photos can promote efficient information exchange and activate patients to communicate their complex lived experiences, including their goals and preferences that may otherwise be difficult to elicit or challenging to discuss in current clinical practice.