Elizabeth Ozer, PhD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

415-476-2184

Elizabeth Ozer is Professor of Pediatrics & Associate Vice Provost, Faculty Equity, Office of Diversity and Outreach, at the University of California, SF (UCSF). She also serves as Director of Fellows Research Training in Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine. Dr. Ozer is a psychologist whose research has focused primarily on the health of adolescents, young adults, and women.

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She has served as either Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator of multiple U.S. federally funded grants focused on decreasing adolescent risky behavior through improving the care provided by the health care system and the primary care provider. This research has tested models for increasing the screening and counseling of adolescents in primary care as well as evaluated the effect of provider screening and counseling on adolescent behavior across multiple health risk areas. Recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and National Science Foundation funded research has explored ways that technology can be incorporated into successful models of prevention for teenagers, with a current transdisciplinary collaboration with computer scientists to design, implement, and investigate a self-adaptive personalized behavior change system for adolescent preventive health (with a focus on reducing adolescent alcohol use).

In addition to intervention research, Dr. Ozer and colleagues have examined ethnic/racial disparities in the delivery of preventive services, rates of screening for depression in primary care, and trends in depression, nutrition, and physical activity screening. Extending beyond the adolescent age-group, recent work has emphasized young adult preventive health care. Dr. Ozer is currently PI of a Maternal & Child Health (MCHB) funded Adolescent/Young Adult Health Network with a focus on developing a national transdisciplinary research agenda for adolescent and young adult health and to translate research into practice.

Dr. Ozer is Chair of the University of California System-Wide Committee on the Status of Women; and a member of the UCSF Advisory Committee on the Status of Women and the Campus Council on Faculty Life. In 2007, she served as a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne.

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
  • PhD Counseling and Health Psychology Stanford University 1992
  • MA Psychology Stanford University 1988
  • BA Psychology University of Michigan 1982

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Grants and Projects

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  • MCH Adolescent and Young Adult Health Research Network (AYAH-RN), MCHB, 2022-2027
  • Leadership Education in Adolescent Health, MCHB, 2013-2027
  • ADVANCE Partnership: Ensuring Fair Access to Career-enhancing Opportunities on Medical School Faculties, National Science Foundation, 2023-2026
  • Implementation of Health-E You/Salud iTu to Promote Adolescent-Centered Contraceptive Care, PCORI, 2021-2024
  • SCH: ChangeGradients: Promoting Adolescent Health Behavior Change with Clinically Integrated Sample-Efficient Policy Gradient Methods, NIH, 2019-2023
  • Leadership Equity Advances Diversity (LEAD): Increasing Women and Underrepresented Minority Faculty in Leadership Positions, UC Office of the President, 2020-2023
  • State Adolescent and Young Adult Health Capacity Building Program, HRSA, 2018-2023
  • Health Quest: Engaging Adolescents in Health Careers with Technology-Rich Personalized Learning, NIH - Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), 2017-2023
  • Reducing Health Disparities in Unintended Pregnancies Among Hispanic Adolescents Using a Patient-Centered Computer-Based Clinic Intervention, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, 2015-2018
  • SCH INT: Collaborative Research: A Self-Adaptive Personalized Behavior Change System for Adolescent Preventive Healthcare, National Science Foundation, 2013-2017
  • Biomedical Research Career Identification in Graduate Education (BRIDGE), NIH, 2013-2017
  • Adolescents Learning Coping Skills and Problem Solving Using an Interactive Graphic Novella, National Science Foundation, 2012-2014
  • Improving Adolescent Primary Care Through An Interactive Behavioral Health Module, NIH, 2011-2014
  • Improving Adolescent Primary Care through the Integration of an Interactive Behavioral Module, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, 2011-2013
  • Re-orienting general practice systems toward youth friendly care: a cluster randomized controlled trial" - based at University of Melbourne, NHMRC, 2009-2013
  • Influences on the Translation of an Evidence-based HIV/STI Intervention into Practice, National Institutes of Mental Health, 2009-2012
  • Primary Care Prevention Access and Risk-Taking Projec, University of Melbourne, 2006-2010
  • Adolescent Preventive Services: Disparities and Outcomes, National Institute of Nursing Research, 2005-2007
  • Evaluation of Adolescent Clinical Preventive Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through a cooperative agreement with the American Association of Medical Colleges, 2003-2004
  • Evaluation of Adolescent Clinical Preventive Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through a cooperative agreement with the American Association of Medical Colleges, 2001-2003
  • Implementing Adolescent Preventive Guidelines, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2000-2003
  • Combining Work and Family: Parental Employment and Adolescent Risk Behavior, Hellman Family Award for Early Career Faculty, University of California, San Francisco, 2002
  • 5 year grant to implement and evaluate a clinical preventive service intervention for adolescents in managed health care settings in California, The California Wellness Foundation, 1995-2000
  • Childcare Responsibility, Mental Health &Employment, NIH, 1990-1900

Publications (50)

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Health BehaviorMass ScreeningCounselingPsychological TheorySocieties, ScientificPrimary Health CareComputer-Assisted InstructionTechnologyRisk-TakingPreventive Health ServicesAdolescent BehaviorVideo GamesAdolescent MedicineDiagnostic Techniques and ProceduresAdolescent Health Services

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