I have developed deep expertise in patient and community engagement in healthcare settings to improve quality and safety outcomes.
Specifically, I have skills in building and maintaining representative and ethical patient advisory councils, mixed-methods research, implementation science, quality improvement, community-engaged research, and reproductive health. Most of my work has focused on the public healthcare network, serving patients that our society has structurally and historically disinvested and marginalized.
As a UCSF faculty member I am honored to demonstrate my interest for STIs through research, teaching, and patient care. I currently serve as the Medical Director for the California Prevention Training Center and am the site PI for the multicenter CDC-funded HPV-Impact project,which monitors the population-level effects of HPV vaccination.
Jerry Nutor is a tenure-track Associate Professor and registered nurse in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing with a joint appointment with Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). As a nurse scientist, his research goals are to develop new methods of improving healthcare for underrepresented segments of the population, such as rural and urban communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr.
Dr. Malini Nijagal is an obstetrician and gynecologist who provides maternity care for women. She sees patients in the clinic as well as in the hospital.
One focus of Nijagal's research is how to deliver health care – particularly maternity care – so that patients perceive it as valuable and of high quality. She also studies how to define high-quality care during pregnancy and the postpartum period, the role of human-centered design in optimizing outcomes and experience, and how to encourage superior care by improving methods of paying for health care.
Pam Murnane is an Assistant Professor in the department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at UCSF. Her research focusses on biological, behavioral, and structural factors that influence maternal and child health outcomes in the context of HIV in resource limited settings. She has expertise in adherence measurement and risk prediction, and is currently the PI of a K01 Award aiming to identify implementation strategies to deliver targeted adherence support for pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV in western Kenya.
My research is focused on measurement and on quality. Most of my work is on maternal health, family planning, and abortion services in low- and middle-income countries.
In India and Kenya my colleagues and I are working to first develop a measure for person-centered quality, and then to implement rapid quality improvement cycles in multiple hospitals, working with the hospital managers, clinicians, staff, and patients to identify quality shortcomings, causes, and to brainstorm and implement solutions.
