• Health Systems Strengthening Officer, UCSF Global Health Sciences
• Lecturer, Department of Family Medicine, Aga Khan University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

• MD, University of California, Los Angeles
• MPH, Harvard University
• Family Medicine Residency, San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF
• Research Fellowship, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF

• Health Insurance and its impact on access to health services
• Women’s Health-particularly preventive health and chronic disease management
• Health Disparities-determinants of health and access to health services

• Global Health
  • Shortage of trained health care professionals in developing countries
• Primary Care Workforce
  • Task shifting and the role of lower level health cadres in the provision of primary healthcare services
  • Impact of primary health care service re-organization on productivity and quality of care
• Medical Education
  • Curriculum development and training of medical students and residents in developing countries
  • Faculty and student exchange programs between universities  in developing and industrialized countries

Department of Family and Community Medicine
Box SFGH B80, WD 83
1001 Potrero AVe., SFGH 80
San Francisco CA 94143

ph 415-206-8611

stache@globalhealth.ucsf.edu
taches@fcm.ucsf.edu