Paula Braveman, MD, MPH

Director of Center on Social Disparities in Health
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Community and Family Medicine
3333 California Street, Suite 365
San Francisco, CA
USA 94118-0943

Biographical Sketch: Paula Braveman, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health at the University of California, San Francisco. She is an active member of the Institute of Medicine. For nearly 30 years she has studied and published extensively on social inequalities in health and the social determinants of health, and has worked to bring attention to these issues in the U.S. and globally.

Papers:
3012.0 US health in international perspective part II 3134.0 Racial/ethnic disparities in depression symptoms during pregnancy among women: The contribution of income and neighborhood poverty 3134.0 Neighborhood poverty and preterm birth revisited: Comparing cross-sectional measures to longitudinal poverty trajectories 3401.0 What are the health consequences of reduced food stamp eligibility? an examination of the evidence for the u.s. congress 4331.0 Health internationalism in the 1970s and 1980s 5057.0 Residential mobility in the perinatal period among a statewide representative sample of women, 2003 – 2007