• Professor of Family and Community Medicine
• Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health

• BA, Philosophy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
• BS, General Studies, Portland, OR
• MD, Medicine, University of California San Francisco
• Residency, Family and Community Medicine, UCSF (SFGH)
• Fellowship, UCSF (SFGH), Pediatrics (Adolescent Medicine)
• Research Fellowship, UCSF, Family and Community Medicine
• MPH, Epidemiology, UC Berkeley
• Residency, Family and Community Medicine, UCSF (SFGH)
• (Post-Doc) Health Policy Fellow, Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF

• Documenting and understanding socioeconomic and racial or ethnic disparities in health, particularly in maternal and infant health
• Translating research into information to inform policies to reduce health disparities
• Methodological and conceptual issues in studying socioeconomic and racial or ethnic inequalities in health in the U.S. and internationally, particularly:
  • Developing measures of experiences of racial discrimination for use in studies of adverse birth outcomes among African-American women in the U.S.
  • Measuring socioeconomic factors in U.S. health research
  • The concept and measurement of health inequalities in the U.S. and internationally

• Braveman P, Egerter S, et al. Overcoming Obstacles to Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, February 2008, 80 pages. (www.commissiononhealth.org)
• Braveman P. Health disparities and health equity: Concepts and measurement. Annual Review Public Health 2006;27:167-94.
• Braveman P, Cubbin C, et al. Socioeconomic status in health research: one size does not fit all. JAMA 2005;294(22): 2879-88.
• Braveman P, Egerter S, Cubbin C, Marchi K. An approach to studying social disparities in health and health care. Am J Public Health 2004;94:2139-48.
• Braveman P, Tarimo E. Social inequalities in health: not only an issue for affluent countries. Soc Sci Med 2002;54(11):1621-35.

Department of Family and Community Medicine
Center on Social Disparities in Health
Laurel Heights Box 0943
3333 California Street, Suite 365
San Francisco, CA 94143-0943

ph 415-476-6839

braveman@fcm.ucsf.edu