Society for Medical Anthropology

Academic Resources: Graduate Programs

 

University of California San Francisco

Degrees offered:

• Ph.D.

Medical Anthropology Faculty:

at 3333 California Street, Suite 485 Box 0850:

• Joan Ablon, Emeritus (on recall) (415) 476-7239
  Shelly Adler (415)476-6227
  Judith Barker (415) 476-7241
  Philippe Bourgois (415)502-8400
  M. Margaret Clark, Emeritus (415)731-1880
  Stephen L. Eyre (415) 476-1424
  Colleen Johnson, Emeritus (on recall) (415) 476-7266
  Judith Justice (415) 476-9814
  Christie Kiefer (415) 476-7543
  Linda Mitteness (415) 476-7270
  Corinne Nydegger, Emeritus (415) 476-7288
  Karen Pliskin (415) 476-7274
  Susan Sperling (415)476-7269

at 3333 California Street, Suite 340 Box 0646:

• Yewoubdar Beyene, Institute for Health Policy Studies (415) 476-7263
  
• Sharon Kaufman (415) 476-3005
• Peter Kunstadter
  Institute for Health Policy Studies
  3333 California Street, Suite 265, Box 0936
  (415) 476-4921
• Fred Dunn, Emeritus
  420 MU W, Box 0560
  (415) 476-1374
• Jeanie Kayser-Jones
  Physiological Nursing
  N 611Q, Box 0610
  (415) 476-4280
• Barbara Koenig
  Center for Biomedical Ethics
  Stanford Medical School
  701 Welch Rd. #1105
  Palo Alto, CA 94305
  (650)725-6103
• Juliene Lipson
  Box 0608
  (415) 476-3981
• Carol McClain
  Office of the President
  300 Lakeside Drive, 18th Floor
  Oakland, CA 94612-3550
  (510) 987-9473
• Jessica Muller
  Department of Family/Community Medicine
  500 Parnassus, MU-3E
  Box 0900
  (415) 476-5175
• Ronald Stall
  Center for Aids Prevention Studies
  74 New Montgomery
  Box 0886
  (415) 597-9155

Program information:

• The Ph.D Program in Medical Anthropology is a joint endeavor between the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at UCSF with the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Admitting its first students in 1975, the Program is one of the oldest and largest medical anthropology training programs in the U.S. The more than 60 graduates of the Joint Program have positions in universities throughout the world, in international health agencies, and in state and local health care institutions. UCSF offers access to a large and distinguished health sciences campus while UCB offers the breadth of a world renowned university campus covering virtually all scholarly disciplines. The collaborative effort between these quite different campuses has allowed the development of a very diverse program, with faculty working in a variety of specialty areas. Students in the Joint Doctoral Program are admitted to either the UCSF or UCB campus as their "home campus" but enroll in required core courses as a single cohort which also includes the Cultural Anthropology graduate students at UCB. Faculty from both campuses participate in the required curriculum, and oversee qualifying examinations and dissertation committees. UCB admits approximately two students every year at the post-baccalaureate level, UCSF admits approximately six students every even numbered year at the post-Master's level. In addition, UCSF is home to a multidisciplinary postdoctoral training program in sociocultural gerontology and a doctoral program in the History of Health Sciences that brings together anthropologists, sociologists, historians, epidemiologists, physicians, and nurses.
• Medical Anthropology at UCB is identified with the development of critically interpretive medical anthropology. The UCSF program is identified with the anthropology of aging, HIV, international health, sexuality, alternative medicine, and experiences of chronic illness, disability and stigmatized conditions, as well as critical perspectives on substance abuse, violence, poverty, and medical institutions.

Address:

• Chair, Division of Medical Anthropology
  3333 California Street, Suite 485
  Box 0850
  San Francisco, CA 94118
  phone: (415) 476-7234