SF BUILD Lead Team

Dr. Leticia Márquez-Magaña

SF BUILD Lead Principal Investigator and Core Leader, Institutional Development Core

Professor of Biology

Director of the Health Equity Research Lab

For questions related to research and curricular development activities, please contact Leticia.

Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

SF BUILD Principal Investigator at UCSF

Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics

Director of Center for Vulnerable Populations at UCSF

For questions related to the UCSF partnership with SF BUILD, please contact Kirsten.

Dr. Tung Nguyen

UCSF

Dr. Audrey Paragan-Smith

Co-Director

SF State

Dr. Yazmin Carrasco

Associate Director

UCSF

Mariel De Paz Fernandez

SF BUILD Program Administrator

SF State

Lisa Galli

Budget Analyst

SF State

Shirley Yuen

Budget Analyst

UCSF

Patrick Monahan 

Science Writer

SF State

Dr. Kenjus Watson

Program Evaluation Director

Niquo Ceberio

Research Technician

Ezequiel Lopez

Data Analyst

Dr. Robert Hiatt 

Co-Lead

UCSF

Dr. Leticia Marquez-Magaña 

Co-Lead 

SF State

Dr. Ana Maria Barrera

FAoC Post-doctoral Fellow

Dr. Audrey Paragan-Smith

STC Program Director

SF State

Dr. Kala Mehta

STC Program Director

Associate Professor of Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

For questions related to student training activities, please contact Kala.

Dr. Nicole Coleman

STC Program Administrator

SF State

Devon Espinoza

SF BUILD Program Coordinator

Dr. Blake Riggs

Co-Lead

SF State

Dr. Alicia Fernandez

Core Leader, Research Enrichment

Professor of Clinical Medicine

For questions related to faculty development at UCSF, please contact Alicia

Dr. Kelechi Uwaezuoke

Assistant Director for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Partnerships

SF State

Torey Jaques

Peer-Mentor Coordinator

SF State

Sonny Vernard

Project Analyst

UCSF

Brenda Garibay 

Student Assistant

Kenny Leong

Student Assistant