Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH

Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine

Email: znetnerg.unaqyrl@hpfs.rqhude.fscu@yeldnah.teragram

Overview

Dr. Margaret Handley is a public heath-trained epidemiologist in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine. She is core faculty at the Action Research Center for Health Equity and at the Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative. Dr. Handley’s research focuses on bridging the fields of primary care, public health, and health communication for improving health outcomes and equity. She co-directs the UCSF PRISE Center, Partnerships for Research in Implementation Science for Equity) which focuses on applying implementation science methods to meet the challenges of inequitable health and health care.

At BHHI she is one of the Principal Investigators along with Drs. Margot Kushel and Rebecca Sudore, on an R-01 Intervention Trial exploring Advanced Care Planning in Permanent Supportive Housing and is a Co-Investigator on HOPE HOME.

Dr. Handley also works on the intersection of climate change and implementation science, and on communicative justice and data literacy/data visualization programs in English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms in the Bay Area with students and teachers as part of the community-based Communicative Justice Initiative.

2020 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California

PhD, 05/2000 - Epidemiology, University of California

MPH, 05/1990 - Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California

B.A, 05/1986 - Environmental Science, University of California

Fulbright US Scholar Award, US Fulbright Program-Croatia, 2022-2023

Consultant of the Year- Consistent Excellence, UCSF CTSI, 2013-2014

Barriers and Enablers to COVID-19 Vaccination in San Francisco's Spanish-Speaking Population. (Global implementation research and applications)

Working with Data in Adult English Classrooms: Lessons Learned about Communicative Justice during the COVID-19 Pandemic. (International journal of environmental research and public health)

Confronting the plasticine: promise in a world wrapped in plastic. (The Lancet. Planetary health)

Scoping review of managed alcohol programs. (Harm reduction journal)

Assessing the Implementation Outcomes of Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating in Latin American Restaurants. (Current Developments in Nutrition)

“We remember the pain”: a qualitative study of intergenerational trauma among older adults experiencing homelessness in the HOPE HOME study. (Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless)