Dr. Stephanie Taché is an assistant professor at UCSF in the
Department of Family and Community Medicine and is affiliated to UCSF Global
Health Sciences as one of the course co-directors for the new Masters in Global
Health. She received her medical degree from UCLA, her masters in public health
in population and international health from Harvard University and carried out her
residency in the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. She did a fellowship in Health
Services Research at UCSF and spent two years working and living in Tanzania at the
Health Systems Strengthening Officer for UCSF’s Global Health Sciences. Her
research interests include the health workforce, primary care systems
strengthening, the HIV epidemic in Africa and published several articles
related to academic capacity building to address the workforce shortage in Africa. She has obtained funding from the Center for
Disease Control to work on projects in Tanzania
and Rwanda
and was awarded the New Investigator in Global Health by the Global Health
Council in 2007. Her clinical practice is based at the San Francisco General Hospital Urgent Care
Center focusing on the urban underserved. She is interested in integrative
medicine as a sustainable approach to treating chronic diseases.
