UCSF FCM Grand Rounds
Speaker: Ayanna Bennett, MD, MS, FAAP
In our post-George Floyd world, many organizations and individuals have committed to eliminate health inequity. However, many seem to focus on generating understanding and goodwill rather than concrete change. Dr. Bennett will discuss a framework for health equity implementation that the Office of Health Equity is developing at San Francisco Department of Public Health. This is an evolving framework, but the best practices around health equity are all evolving and this framework is offered as one potential approach.
Dr. Ayanna Bennett is the Chief Health Equity Officer and Director of the Office of Health Equity at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Dr. Bennett is a pediatrician, trained for her MD at UCSF and in the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program for a Master’s degree. In 2004, Dr. Bennett co-founded a non-profit in the San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood called the 3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic, which is thriving today. Dr. Bennett led 3rd St as its Medical Director and then Executive Director for 12 years, while also working as a practicing pediatrician in the East Bay. Dr. Bennett transitioned fully to the Health Department in 2015, taking several leadership positions before establishing the Office of Health Equity in 2019. For much of 2020 Dr. Bennett served as the Incident Commander for the San Francisco COVID-19 response. She has now returned to her ongoing work of developing a plan to decrease the health inequities COVID has revealed so starkly.
Organized by UCSF Family and Community Medicine
