Nancy Adler Seed Grants Program
To strengthen research spanning medicine, public health, and the social sciences at UCSF, the Nancy Adler Seed Grants Program (ASG) will support projects focused on social and behavioral determinants of health.
Dr. Adler was a champion for the social sciences at UCSF over her 45-year career at UCSF, 1977-2023. During Dr. Adler’s career at UCSF, she served as the Lisa and John Pritzker Professor and vice chair of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, and Director of the Center for Health and Community. Much of her research explored how social and behavioral determinants “get under the skin” to shape health and health equity. She believed strongly in the importance of transdisciplinary collaboration for scientific advancement and frequently assembled scholars from different disciplines together to ponder complex problems.
In honor of Dr. Adler’s legacy, the ASG program will support research exploring relationships between social and behavioral drivers and health outcomes and/or interventions anticipated to influence those relationships. These funds will help early career scientists from across UCSF to garner extramural funding (e.g., from NIH and other sources) for future research on social and behavioral drivers of health.
