Geraldine Oliva, MD
Associate Adjunct Professor

• Director, Family Health Outcomes Project (FHOP)

• BA Chemistry,  Connecticut College for Women, New London CT
• MD, Boston University Medical School, Boston MA
• MPH, Maternal and Child Health,  University of California at Berkeley
• Intern, Pediatrics Boston City Hospital
• 1st year Pediatric Residency, charity Hospital, New Orleans LA, Tulane Division
• 2nd year and Chief Resident in Pediatrics, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx NY, Albert Einstein Medical College
  
  

• Building Capacity in the Core Public Health Functions in Local and State Health Departments.   The Family Health Outcomes Project has been funded for 15 years by state and federal Maternal and Child Health agencies to develop and test approaches to building data capacity for the core public health functions of assessment, planning and evaluation.  This has involved: 1. working with stakeholders to identify key health indicators for assessment and monitoring the health of women, children and youth 2. developing data methods for standardizing data definitions, analyzing data with few events, uniquely identifying individuals and performing trend analysis 3. developing and delivering skill based training for health department staff 4. developing a website to provide data, software, publications, and data links for both state and local health departments 5 providing technical assistance 6. developing/making available data bases for this population group
• Exploring hospital access and patterns of hospitalization for children and youth. Specifically we have looked at: 1.  trends and demographic patterns for potentially preventable hospitalizations as they relate to type of health insurance, race or ethnicity, and hospital availability 2. Assessing hospital capacity to meet the needs of children and youth in terms of licensed bed capacity, staffing, emergency room availability, pediatric physician availability 3. Exploring the patterns of hospitalizations and emergency department visits for mental health for age, race/ ethnic and income groups and 4. Assessing the adequacy  and availability of hospital infrastructure for children, youth and their families with mental health problems
• In the area of eliminating health disparities we have participated in the development of a number of collaborative community based approaches to develop and evaluate interventions designed to decrease negative health outcomes for high risk women, primarily African American women in the Bay area. Targeted outcomes have included reducingthe rate of new HIV infections and other sexually transmitted infections, and reducing disparities in infant mortality and other poor birth outcomes. FHOP has partnered with health departments and community agencies in projects that include: the development of reproductive health services co-located with drug treatment facilities, homeless clinics and sexually transmitted disease clinics, 2. developing preventive reproductive health care in  mobile clinics targeting neighborhoods with the highest rate of poor health outcomes and 3 developing a set of community level interventions to reduce infant mortality that included social marketing, undoing racism training for staff of public agencies, cultural competency training for health care providers and community action teams to build capacity for social action in community residents.

• Oliva G, Rienks J, Chavez G.” Evaluating a Program to Build Data Capacity for Core Public Health Functions in Local Maternal and Child Health Programs in California” Maternal Child Health J (2007) 11:1-10.
• Oliva G, Rienks J, Udoh I, Dillard-Smith CA. a University and Community Based Organization Collaboration to Build Capacity to Develop, Implement and Evaluate an Innovative HIV Prevention Intervention for an Urban African American Population. AIDS Educ Prev. (2005) 17(4), 300-316.
• Dillard-Smith C, Oliva G. California Collaborations in HIV Preventions Research Dissemination Project. Module 6: HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention Among Urban, at Risk African Americans (2004) Available at http://uarp.ucop.edu/ca_collaborations/modules/module6a_app.html
• Oliva G, Rienks J, Netherland L. Critical Collaborations in Serving High Risk Women: the PHREDA Project. Chapter 7 in Bower BP, MIshra SI, Reback CF and Lemp GF eds. Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations. The Haworth Press, Inc. November 2004.
• Oliva G, Hager J. Developing an Effective Planning Process: A Guide for Local MCH Programs. California Department of Health Services. March 2003. http://familymedicine.medschool.ucsf.edu/fhop/htm/publications/pg_planGuide.htm
  

Family Health Outcomes Project
Box 0937
3333 California Street, Ste 365
San Francisco, CA 94118

ph 415-476-5288

olivag@fcm.ucsf.edu