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Population Health Division. The Division is composed of various branches dedicated to core public health services for the City and County of San Francisco, such as health protection and promotion, disease and injury prevention, disaster preparedness and response, and environmental health services.
Mervyn F. Silverman is an American physician and public health supervisor. He is best known for serving as director of health in San Francisco from 1977 to 1985, overseeing the city's initial response to AIDS. From 2011 onwards, he serves as Secretary of the Board of Trustees for amfAR. [1]
The Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center [1] ( ZSFG) is a public hospital in San Francisco, California, under the purview of the city's Department of Public Health. It serves as the only Level I trauma center for the 1.5 million residents of San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. [2]
The Public Health Service Hospital ( PHSH) is a defunct hospital located in the Presidio of San Francisco, it was in operation (in this name) from 1912 to 1981. The precursor hospital was the San Francisco Marine Hospital, established in 1853, and renamed in 1912. [1] [2] The building for the Public Health Service Hospital was erected in 1931 ...
The San Francisco model of AIDS care. The San Francisco model of AIDS care began in 1983 in wards 86 and 5B of San Francisco General Hospital. The focus of this model was not only on the health of each patient with AIDS, but also on the well-being of each person. As AIDS was beginning to be treated as a significant epidemic, San Francisco ...
The SFAF was established in April 1982 as the Kaposi's Sarcoma Research and Education Foundation, by Cleve Jones, Marcus Conant, Frank Jacobson, and Richard Keller. They reorganized as the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1984. The SFAF was originally an all volunteer group led by physicians and gay community leaders.
t. e. Healthy San Francisco is a health access program launched in 2007 to subsidize medical care for uninsured residents of San Francisco, California. [1] The program's stated objective is to bring universal health care to the city. [2] [3] Healthy San Francisco is not a true insurance program, as it does not cover services such as dental and ...
Prior to joining CHCF, Hernández was CEO of The San Francisco Foundation, which she led for 16 years. She previously served as director of public health for the City and County of San Francisco. Hernández is an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.