The School of Social Ecology, Master of Public Policy (MPP) program and the Public Policy Student Association (PPSA) in partnership with American Family Housing invite you to participate in the 2021 Health and Housing Policy Forum.
This forum will include panel discussions and a keynote address exploring critical challenges by engaging the leaders, policy makers, researchers, and service agencies at the front lines of addressing this important intersection of health and housing.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Margot Kushel
Margot Kushel, MD is a Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco, and Division Chief and Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, and Director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. She is a practicing general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Margot's research focuses on the causes and consequences of homelessness and housing instability, with the goal of preventing and ending homelessness and ameliorating the effects of homelessness on health. She speaks at a local, state and national level about issues of homelessness, and provides testimony to legislative bodies. She received her AB from Harvard College, her MD from Yale and completed residency, chief residency and fellowship in internal medicine at UCSF.
