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Dr. Burchard featured in Vox YouTube series "Glad You Asked"

Dr. Burchard sat down with the VOX media team to talk about "How Should Doctors Consider Race?" for their YouTube series Glad You Asked.  

Dr. Burchard speaks at the Keystone Symposia

Dr. Burchard, founder and co-director of the UCSF-CGEH, now retired, joins other expert panelists to discuss Equity in Health and Healthcare: Considerations of Race/Ethnicity in Precision Medicine.

Dr. Burchard delivers the keynote speech at SACNAS

Dr. Esteban Burcahrd, past co-director of the UCSF-CGEH, delivers the keynote address for the 2019 Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS) Conference in Honolulu, HI, USA.

Dr. Burchard speaks at the NMA

Dr. Burchard, founder and co-director of the UCSF-CGEH, now retired, gave a speech at the 2019 National Medical Association Convetion and Scientific Assembly in Honolulu, HI, USA.

California. Institute to Advance Personalized Medicine Funds UCSF-CGEH investigator Elad Ziv

California Institute to Advance Precision Medicine: Improving Precision Medicine for Breast Cancer in Latinas: A multi-tiered ApproachThis project will aim to improve both hereditary (germline) genetic prediction of breast cancer risk and to understand the landscape of cancer-specific (somatic)…

Dr. Burchard is the focus of a 3-part documentary

Dr. Esteban G. Burchard was featured in iBiology's documentary series "Background to Breakthrough." The film highlights his journey from SF State athletics to becoming a renowned UCSF geneticist and asthma researcher, focusing on health disparities and the influence of race in medicine. The series…

NIH Grant awarded to UCSF-CGEH investigator Esteban Burchard

Natural History of Viral Induced Airway Dysfunction and Asthma in Minority ChildrenWe will recruit and longitudinally follow 2,100 Puerto Rican newborns and track their respiratory illnesses. We will determine why early-life viral infections cause severe respiratory illnesses in some infants and…