Dohan, Dan

Associate Director
UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium
Associate Director for Training and Development
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Daniel Dohan, PhD is Associate Professor in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies with a faculty appointment in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine. He is also the Associate Director for Training at IHPS as well as the Director for UCSF Pathway to Discovery in Health and Society. Dan's work examines disparities, organizations, and the culture of biomedicine -- mostly via ethnographic studies of how we deliver care to disadvantaged populations. He has examined how diverse patients are recruited to participate in cancer clinical trials, how social stigma shapes the provision of oncology and emergency care, and the effects of welfare reform on poor people with substance abuse problems. In addition to his research, Dan is engaged in curricular innovations with the Pathway in Health & Society that seek to bolster the culture of inquiry and leadership in health sciences education.

Dan's Ph.D. is in sociology from UC Berkeley. He has published in a variety of journals including Social Science and Medicine, Cancer, Health Services Research, and Ethnography. A book based on his dissertation, The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican-American Barrio, was published by the University of California Press in 2003.

University of California, San Francisco
3333 California Street, Suite 265
San Francisco, CA 94118

Phone: 415-476-0751
daniel.dohan@ucsf.edu