Originally published in Synapse on December 4, 1996.

SJP at UCSF is an interprofessional coalition of graduate and professional students that connects Palestinian liberation to broader struggles for health justice. Founded in 2023, the group spans the ...

For many born and raised in the United States, this feeling of being ‘at home’ comes instinctively. But despite having lived ...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 12, 1981.] The theme of this year’s American Public Health Association convention was “Energy, Health and Environment.” However, the keynote addresses and ...

As the evening rises across the bay, the golden bridges on our faces meet to make a crossing so great it straddles the sea — the sea of tears, the sea of mutiny. With our brows pointed awry, no longer ...

Oops I did it again! I found a lab this past year, But now, apparently, I’m supposed to do science. Finding a home at UCSF this past year was an incredible ...

Maria Klein is a student in the School of Nursing.

The California Medical Association (CMA) convenes physicians from across the state annually at its House of Delegatesmeeting, represented by county medical society sections (such as San Francisco - ...

Were fleeting ghosts or if we should stay, I feel the weight of first love fray. I fear the feelings are bound to pass, Yet still I am, was, and stayed They seduce and they smile, they brood and they ...

The best I can do is light a candle. It is my grandmothers yahrzeit, after all.

Originally published on September 21, 1995. Among the books that have influenced my thinking are A Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. They both model the future and warn us to be vigilant about how our world ...