Roberto Vargas, MPH
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Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Award for Advancing DEIA in Education!, UCSF Family Medicine Educational Alliance, 2021
• Chancellor's Award for Exceptional University Service, University of California San Francisco, 2015

Education & Training

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• Masters of Public Health San Francisco State University 2009

Publications (9)

Top publication keywords:
Community ParticipationEarly Detection of CancerDrinking WaterSocial MarketingWater SupplyHealth PolicyHealth PromotionHealth CommunicationTaxesVaccinesMinority GroupsSan FranciscoCooperative BehaviorPublic-Private Sector PartnershipsCities

• Mobilizing faith-based COVID-19 health ambassadors to address COVID-19 health disparities among African American older adults in under-resourced communities: A hybrid, community-based participatory intervention.
  PloS one 2024 Adinkrah EK, Bazargan S, Cobb S, Kibe LW, Vargas R, Waller J, Sanchez H, Bazargan M
• Drink Tap: A Multisector Program to Promote Water Access and Intake in San Francisco Parks.
  Preventing chronic disease 2023 Rosenthal MD, Schmidt LA, Vargas R, Blacker LS, McCulloch CE, Ezennia J, Patel AI
• COVID-19 Vaccination Perceptions Among Young Adults of Color in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Health equity 2022 Rios-Fetchko F, Carson M, Gonzalez Ramirez M, Butler JZ, Vargas R, Cabrera A, Gallegos-Castillo A, LeSarre M, Liao M, Woo K, Ellis R, Liu K, Doyle B, Leung L, Grumbach K, Fernandez A
• COVID-19 vaccination readiness among multiple racial and ethnic groups in the San Francisco Bay Area: A qualitative analysis.
  PloS one 2022 Butler JZ, Carson M, Rios-Fetchko F, Vargas R, Cabrera A, Gallegos-Castillo A, LeSarre M, Liao M, Woo K, Ellis R, Liu K, Burra A, Ramirez M, Doyle B, Leung L, Fernandez A, Grumbach K
• From Cancer Epidemiology to Policy and Practice: the Role of a Comprehensive Cancer Center.
  Current epidemiology reports 2022 Hiatt RA, Sibley A, Venkatesh B, Cheng J, Dixit N, Fox R, Ling P, Nguyen T, Oh D, Palmer NR, Pasick RJ, Potter MB, Somsouk M, Vargas RA, Vijayaraghavan M, Ashworth A

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• Addressing racial/ethnic inequities in vaccine hesitancy and uptake: lessons learned from the California alliance against COVID-19.
  Journal of behavioral medicine 2022 AuYoung M, Rodriguez Espinosa P, Chen WT, Juturu P, Young MT, Casillas A, Adkins-Jackson P, Hopfer S, Kissam E, Alo AK, Vargas RA, Brown AF, STOP COVID-19 C. A. Communications Working Group
• The San Francisco Cancer Initiative: A Community Effort To Reduce The Population Burden Of Cancer.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2018 Hiatt RA, Sibley A, Fejerman L, Glantz S, Nguyen T, Pasick R, Palmer N, Perkins A, Potter MB, Somsouk M, Vargas RA, van 't Veer LJ, Ashworth A
• Reducing Cancer and Cancer Disparities: Lessons From a Youth-Generated Diabetes Prevention Campaign.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2017 Schillinger D, Ling PM, Fine S, Boyer CB, Rogers E, Vargas RA, Bibbins-Domingo K, Chou WS
• Achieving Health Equity Through Community Engagement in Translating Evidence to Policy: The San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership, 2010-2016.
  Preventing chronic disease 2017 Grumbach K, Vargas RA, Fleisher P, Aragón TJ, Chung L, Chawla C, Yant A, Garcia ER, Santiago A, Lang PL, Jones P, Liu W, Schmidt LA