A snapshot of University of California programs and services in your district It starts here
Congressional District 8 — Nancy Pelosi (D) UC alumni in this district: 29,879
UC San Francisco employees: 13,800
UC in Your District
The University of California’s reach
goes well beyond its 10 campuses,
five medical centers and three
national laboratories. The
University’s presence is felt in each
of California’s 58 counties through
a wide array of exemplary
community partnerships, enriching
cultural resources and innovative
research programs. From health-
care education for rural physicians
to agricultural research advice for
local farmers to college preparation
efforts in nearly every public
school, UC has a direct influence in
your community. Find out more
about UC programs in your district
by visiting:
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
UC SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR UC MANAGED DOE NATIONAL LABS
QUANTITATIVE BIOMEDICAL
UC San Francisco is one of San The Lawrence Livermore National
RESEARCH (QB 3)
Francisco’s largest employers, Laboratory (LLNL) and Lawrence
contributing more than $1 billion QB 3 is a cooperative effort between Berkeley National Laboratory are
annually to the Bay Area economy UC and private industry aimed at both located near the 8th
and spawning hundreds of developing the cutting-edge research Congressional District and have a
biotechnology enterprises. UC San discoveries that will continue to drive combined job base of 12,600. LLNL is
Francisco has an internationally the field of biomedicine. QB 3 will one of the world's premier scientific
renown faculty and is a leader in drive the new technologies and centers, where cutting-edge national
patient care, biomedical research, and research that will spawn a host of security research is used to break
graduate health science education. The biomedical innovations and train new ground in energy, breast cancer
Medical Center, which is located in thousands of researchers. QB 3 will and environmental research. The
this district, consistently ranks be housed at two new buildings on Berkeley Laboratory boasts nine Nobel
among the best hospitals in the the UCSC campus, a new UCB Prizes and performs research in life
nation. With its affiliated hospitals, facility and a site at UCSF’s Mission sciences, energy efficiency, and
UCSF handles 50 percent of all Bay campus. accelerators. Both laboratories host a
hospital admissions in San range of K-12 and community outreach
Francisco. programs.
A snapshot of University of California programs and services in your district It starts here
Congressional District 8 — Nancy Pelosi (D) UC alumni in this district: 29,879
UC San Francisco employees: 13,800
UC Berkeley’s Environmental Sciences Program and the Nursing School faculty from UC
Department of Ethnic Studies have worked in partnership San Francisco and CSU San
with San Francisco’s Galileo Academy of Science and Francisco have partnered at the
Technology and the Urban Watershed Project to implement a Valencia Health Services Clinic, to
three-year high school environmental science course. The provide primary health care to 2,650
course incorporates field study, mentoring and web-based infants, children and adolescents
learning under the guidance of the National Park Service at in San Francisco. The clinic
the Presidio in San Francisco. combines UC's expertise in pediatric,
women's health, and family primary care medicine with CSU's
UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of experience in case management and public health.
Science Alliance for Collaborative http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/conf/vhs/
Change in School Systems
(ACCESS) works with the San Both the Livermore and Lawrence
Francisco Unified School District to Berkeley National Laboratories are
strengthen the capacity of committed to enhancing community
secondary schools to prepare welfare, quality of life, and
students from historically under- educational excellence through a
represented groups for college. http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/ variety of community efforts and
programs. The Berkeley Laboratory
The Public Law Research Institute at UC’s Hastings College hosts an award-winning Virtual Frog
of the Law serves California legislators and agencies by Dissection Web Site designed for
analyzing the legal issues that confront California's state and classrooms statewide. The Livermore Laboratory’s Expanding
local governments. Research topics have included the AIDS Your Horizons Project nurtures K-12 girl’s interests in math
crisis, corporate governance, welfare reform and crime control. and science and encourages them to choose careers in these
http://www.uchastings.edu/plri/ fields by providing Bay Area K-12 schools with hands-on
workshops led by women scientists and engineers.
UC’s Early Academic http://www.llnl.gov/eyh/
Outreach Program (EAOP)
provides academic support, UC San Francisco’s Student Homeless Clinic provides the
college counseling and services of medical and nursing students and physicians to
motivational/skill-building homeless people at district sites such as the 5th Street Multi-
workshops to help over 85,000 Service Center. UC San Francisco’s Homeless Veterans
California students realize their Health Care program also reaches homeless veterans in San
dreams of a college education. Francisco shelters, detoxification centers and on the streets.
EAOP works with disadvantaged students in 37 high schools
and 37 middle schools in Alameda, Contra Costa, San The UC San Francisco
Francisco and Santa Clara counties. http://www.eaop.org Center for Science
Education and Outreach
The Mental Health Research Group at UC Berkeley's School coordinates programs that
of Social Welfare works with California counties to pursue help underrepresented
timely research on issues in mental health such as residential students explore their
care, psychiatric emergency services and homelessness. academic interests and
http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu plan for college. The Science & Health Education Partnership
is a collaboration between UC and the San Francisco Unified
UC San Francisco’s Breast Cancer Early Detection Program School District aimed at improving K-12 science education
Regional Partnership provides breast cancer screening, programs. http://student.ucsf.edu/ucforyou/home
diagnostic services, and out-reach to low-income women over
40. http://www.ucsfbreastcarecenter.org For a complete listing of UC programs in your district, access
our on-line database at: www.universityofcalifornia.edu
UC San Francisco’s research was among the first to
identify HIV as the causative agent of AIDS and the campus
continues to lead in HIV treatment and research programs. The
UCSF AIDS Health Project is the sole provider of HIV-specific
mental health programs. HIV InSite is a web resource for
treatment, prevention and policy that links UC expertise with
academics, doctors and patients worldwide.
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu