Dr. Margot Kushel
Professor of medicine at UC San Francisco & director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
About Dr. Margot Kushel
Margot Kushel, MD is a Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco and Division Chief of the Division of Health Equity and Society. She is the Director of the UCSF Action Research Center for Health Equity and the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. A practicing general internist at San Francisco General Hospital, her research focuses on the causes and consequences of homelessness, with the goal of preventing and ending homelessness and ameliorating its effect on health. She is the PI of the California State Study of People Experiencing Homelessness and numerous NIA funded studies on older adult homelessness.