Dr. Malini Nijagal (she/her) is an obstetrician and gynecologist who provides care at both Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF Health. Her non-clinical care focuses on reducing inequities in care access, experience and outcomes during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
The main focus of Nijagal's creative work is designing and implementing novel and sustainable models of care both within clinical settings (clinic, hospital) and in the community using a cross-sector approach. Her work leverages her expertise in areas of Human Centered Design, quality improvement, change management strategy, healthcare financing, and institutional-community collaboration. She also focuses how on how high value maternity care should be defined through an equity lens, and how healthcare payment design can be used to encourage superior care and outcomes.
Nijagal earned her medical degree at UCSF and completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has a master of public health degree, with a focus on health care management, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.