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The Health Equity Institute is led by a faculty Director in collaboration with a dedicated group of Health Equity Faculty who share their time with home departments across our campus. We are joined by HEI Faculty Scholars supported with research-time, as well as HEI affiliate faculty, a volunteer base of faculty across campus.
HEI runs several scholarship hubs reflecting core areas of research and programming, including a Science, Technology, and Society Hub and new programs in gender and sexuality, and reproduction and society. Hubs are interdisciplinary efforts to build collaboaration, innovate ideas of research and methodologies to work toward health and wellbeing in ways that lead with values of equity and social justice.
An advisory board comprising SF State faculty from across campus guides our work.
HEI Faculty
- Laura Mamo, Professor of Public Health, Director of HEI
- Sepideh Modrek, Professor of Economics, Interim Director Fall 2025
- Allen LeBlanc, Professor of Sociology
- Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Professor of Sociology, Research and Education on Gender and Sexuality Lead
HEI Faculty Scholars & Research Hub Leads
- Martha Lincoln, Ph.D., 2025 Faculty Scholar
- Xiaorong Zhang, Ph.D., 2024 Faculty Scholar
HEI Affiliate Faculty
- Teresa Gray, Ph. D.
- Martha Kenney, Ph.D.
- Zena R. Mello, Ph.D.
- Supriya Misra, Sc.D.
- Zubaida Qamar, Ph.D., R.D.
- David Rebanal, Sc.D.
- Emma Sanchez-Vaznaugh, Ph.D.
HEI Advisory Board
- David I. Anderson, Health and Social Sciences
- Carmen R. Domingo, Science and Engineering
- Anoshua Chaudhuri, Business
- Nhung M. Le, Ethnic Studies
- Leticia Marquez-Magana, Science and Engineering
- Johnny Symons, Liberal and Creative Arts