Melanie F. Molina, MD, MAS

Dr. Melanie Molina is an Assistant Professor of emergency medicine (EM) and Affiliate Faculty of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prior to her faculty position, Dr. Molina completed a postdoctoral fellowship through the National Clinician Scholars Program at UCSF and a Masters in Advanced Studies through UCSF’s Training in Clinical Research program. During that time, she investigated and published work elucidating COVID-19-related health disparities and ways to leverage technology to integrate social needs screening/linkage to resources into clinical care. Dr. Molina’s own experiences overcoming childhood adversity sparked her desire to work toward reducing health disparities and continue to drive her advocacy work.