Prof Margot Kushel

Professor of Medicine, University of California; Division Chief, Division of Health Equity and Society; Director, UCSF Action Research Center for Health Equity; Director, UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative

Margot Kushel, MD is a Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco and Division Chief of the Division of Health Equity and Society. She is the Director of the UCSF Action Research Center for Health Equity and the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. She is a practicing general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of homelessness, with the goal of preventing and ending homelessness and ameliorating the effects of homelessness on health. She is the Principal Investigator of the California State Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH) and numerous NIA funded studies on homelessness in older adults.