Webinar from August 22, 2024
Dr. Neeta Thakur is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she is the co-Director of the Partnerships for Research in Implementation Science for Equity (PRISE) Center and the interim co-chair of Research for the UC Center for Climate, Health, and Equity. Opportunity determines where people live, how individuals are treated, and their overall socioeconomic wealth; each of which is an important risk factor for developing lung disease and contributes to morbidity. The concept of opportunity has informed Dr. Thakur’s federally-funded research program and, over the past decade, she has developed a novel research agenda that is directed towards 1) identifying community-specific drivers that place individuals at high risk for poor outcomes and 2) co-developing place-based and targeted interventions aimed at social and environmental factors to improve respiratory outcomes in historically and persistently marginalized populations. To successfully achieve these goals, her group, the CLEAR Lab, employes community-engaged methods ranging from consulting with community stakeholders for input on scientific questions and study design to participatory action research through the Youth Participatory Action Research program and the group's environmental justice portfolio.
About the ISD Webinar Series
The Investigator Skills Development (ISD) Webinar Series is presented by the Investigator Skills Development Unit (ISDU) of the UCSF Research Coordinating Center to Reduce Disparities in Multiple Chronic Diseases (RCC-RD-MCD).
Co-Sponsored by CAPS Town Hall and the CAPS Implementation Science and Health Systems (ISHS) Core
ISDU Director: Mandana Khalili, MD, MAS, Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Chief of Clinical Hepatology, San Francisco General Hospital
ISDU Co-Director: Edwin Charlebois, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Prevention Science, UCSF
Learn more at health-equity-action.org