Graduate Student Support:
BMS Listening Box: For providing anonymous feedback for BMS program leadership
BMS Student Intranet: Provides information current students with information pertaining to BMS curriculum, new student onboarding, program requirements, fellowship & grants, advising & counseling, financial information, health care and insurance, and student oversight policies
UCSF First Generation Support Services: Supports students whose parents/caregivers did not graduate from a four-year college by providing scholarship and networking opportunities
UCSF's Graduate Division DEI Initiatives: Cultivate justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at UCSF
Student Disability Services: UCSF is committed to ensuring access to graduate education for all students. Early communication with the relevant administrators is critical to a successful partnership in arranging accommodations. We encourage students with disabilities to (first) disclose to the Office of Student Disability Services. SDS is the appropriate and confidential office for seeking accommodations, and will coordinate communications and procedures with you and the graduate faculty and programs. Visit their website and review this info sheet for more information.
Childcare Support (SF-based families): Children’s Council and our partners offer a variety of financial assistance programs that may partially or completely cover the costs of care for children from birth until the age of 13* (for state funded programs only).
UCSF Campus Wide Support:
Office of Diversity and Outreach
Confidential CARE Advocates: Free confidential support to all UCSF employees who have experienced discrimination or interpersonal violence
Office of Disability Access and Inclusion: Provides training, programs, and resources to support accessibility and inclusivity for people with disabilities
LGBT Resource Center: Promotes visibility, community, and inclusivity for LGBTQIA+ employees and patients
Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination (OPHD): Responsible for addressing and responding to reports of discrimination or harassment and protects individuals from retaliation
Outreach
Post-Bacc
Post-baccalaureate Research Opportunity to Promote Equity in Learning (PROPEL): 1-2 year paid Post-bacc position aimed at providing research opportunities to disadvantaged backgrounds in science.
College Students
Summer Research Training Program (SRTP): UCSF Outreach program focused on providing basic science internship opportunities to undergraduate students from historically marginalized backgrounds.
K-12 Students
Science & Health Education Program (SEP): UCSF Outreach program focused on exposing K-12 students in San Francisco to STEM based careers.
CURE Summer Internship: Paid summer internship program focused on exposing high school juniors from underrepresented backgrounds to various types of research.
Neuroscape: Neurology-based summer research opportunity for students attending SFUSD high schools
ImmunoExplore: Week-long Summer program focused on introducing high school students to immunology.
Cardiac Camp: Week-long cardiac-focused summer program which aims to provide underrepresented minorities in medicine about the basic anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system, heart disease, and prevention in early and late life, and be exposed to live cardiac testing modalities.
Brain Camp: Week-long brain-focused summer program which aims to provide high school students from underrepresented minorities in medicine to fields of neurology, neurosurgery, pathology, and more.