Anita Hargrave, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Anita Hargrave-Bouagnon MD, MAS (she/her) is a physician-researcher who is committed to a career in patient oriented and policy relevant research aimed at improving health outcomes for people who have experienced trauma through community engaged and implementation science strategies.

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Dr. Hargrave works as a general internist at the Richard Fine People’s Clinic, part of the San Francisco Health Network safety-net system, and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Hargrave has completed health policy and ethnographic research in Ecuador and Europe as a Fulbright and Phi Beta Kappa Scholar. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Clinical and Epidemiological Research (MAS) at UCSF through the National Clinicians Scholars Program (NCSP) where her work included evaluating the association between trauma and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Hargrave is currently a BIRCWH K-12 Scholar, where she is studying the impact of traumatic experiences on leading causes of mortality and morbidity for women including heart disease, cancer, tobacco use, and suicide using a longitudinal national cohort. The findings generated from her BIRCWH K-12 research will identify primary performance gaps in management of disease risk factors for women. Her work will inform future women’s health programs aimed at decreasing premature death and improving health outcomes by leveraging trauma-informed interventions to improve engagement in evidence-based treatments. Dr. Hargrave is a faculty member of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI), where her work has focused on analyzing the intersection of violence and homelessness in the California Statewide Study of Homelessness. She also led the COMPASS Study through the Center to Advance Trauma Informed Health Care (CTHC), which identified best practices in communication and relationship-building between primary care clinicians and their patients who have histories of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) or other trauma. Dr. Hargrave-Bouagnon is currently PI of a TRDRP grant that is using evidence-based behavior change theory to understand and address barriers to smoking cessation during pregnancy for people who have experienced trauma. The work will adapt and test an innovative trauma-informed smoking cessation tool for pregnancy in a randomized controlled trial. Dr. Hargrave is an affiliate faculty member of the Women’s Health Clinical Research Center, UCSF Action Center for Health (ARC), and the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Her work has been featured in various media outlets including the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Examiner.

Awards

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  • UCSF ARCHES 24, UCSF, 2024-2025
  • SGIM VA Partnered Research Program, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and VA HSR&D, 2023
  • BIRCWH K12 Scholar Awardee, UCSF-Kaiser Permanente Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH), 2022
  • SGIM Annual Meeting Best Oral Abstract Presentation in Women's Health, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), 2021
  • Jeffrey Weingarten Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2019
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, Peer-Elected House Officer, University of California, San Francisco, 2017
  • Gold Headed Cane Society, University of California, San Francisco, 2017
  • MacKenzie Foundation Scholarship for General Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 2015
  • Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship for Study in Europe, University of Rochester, 2011-2012
  • Fulbright Scholar - Ecuador, Fulbright Commission in Ecuador, 2010-2011
  • Fannie Bigelow Award, University of Rochester, 2010
  • Irene Bush Steinbock Award, University of Rochester, 2010
  • Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, University of Rochester, 2010

Education & Training

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  • MAS Clinical Research University of California San Francisco 6/2022
  • Residency Internal Medicine University of California San Francisco 6/2020
  • MD with Honors Thesis Doctor of Medicine University of California San Francisco 06/2017
  • Clinical and Translational Fellow Clinical Research University of California San Francisco 06/2016
  • BA, Summa Cum Laude Health and Society University of Rochester 06/2010

Publications (22)

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ContraceptionIntimate Partner ViolenceSurvivorsArbovirus InfectionsContraception, PostcoitalHypersensitivityHousingDrug OverdoseMilitary PersonnelSuicideVeteransSex OffensesStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticZika Virus InfectionZika Virus

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