Research Seminar with Emily Mrig, PhD
Open to Penn affiliates
Speaker
Emily Mrig, PhD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco
Emily Hammad Mrig, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco Department of Clinical Pharmacy and at the Center for Translational and Policy Research on Precision Medicine (TRANSPERS). She is also an associate faculty member at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) and the Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS). Mrig is an interdisciplinary scholar with diverse training and experience in public health, health policy, and social science that she applies to investigate inequities in health care access, especially in precision medicine, cancer, and end-of-life care. She focuses on the broader institutional, community, and policy factors shaping health disparities and the possibility of health policy interventions to produce effective change. Before joining the UCSF faculty, Mrig completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale University School of Public Health.
The Emerging Scholars Exchange Program is a collaborative program with peer universities developed to provide professional development opportunities for early career faculty. Conceived by the Faculty Development Committee at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI), the Exchange Program is a collaboration between IHPI, Penn LDI, and UCSF’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.