NCID-0905
Christina Mangurian
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vice Chair for Diversity and Health Equity
University of California, San Francisco
Education/Degree:
1 MD (University of California, San Francisco)
About
My NIH-funded health services research program focuses on integration of care, with a focus on reducing healthcare disparities among racially/ethnically diverse populations with severe mental illness (SMI). Outside of my NIH-funded research, I work to further advance women and underrepresented minorities (URM) within medicine and have conducted several studies related to workforce policies in an effort to promote workforce retention. My work has been published widely, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and the American Journal of Psychiatry. I am a prior recipient of the 2017 UCSF Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women and the 2018 UCSF Distinction in Mentoring Award. I also hold a secondary appointment in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology in addition to being core faculty in the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, an affiliate faculty member in the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies, and the Chair of the UCSF COPE Well Being Subcommittee.
Current Work
My work aims to promote mental health equity locally, regionally, and nationally. I hold several leadership roles to achieve this goal, including the Behavioral Health Initiative Director for UCSF PRISE Center, a new program to enhance public-academic partnerships to advance equity and implementation science work in the public sector. I built strong public-academic partnerships to support my NIH-funded health services research program, which focuses on reducing healthcare disparities among populations with SMI. I also work to promote racial and gender equity in the workplace, conducting projects on wellbeing, childbearing and family leave, and URM mentorship. During the pandemic, I served as UCSF Cope Wellbeing Program Director, overseeing the development and implementation of Town Halls across UCSF. I presented to the US Congressional Hispanic Caucus and Congressional Mental Health Caucus in 2021 about improving mental health in vulnerable populations given the impact of the pandemic.