Sunita Mutha, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

As director of Healthforce Center, Dr. Mutha leads the organization’s efforts to increase workforce knowledge, develop leadership capacity, and nurture networks across silos to advance health equity.

Dr. Mutha’s scholarly work has focused on overcoming language barriers in health, cultural competence training for clinicians, and improvement interventions to reduce disparities in care. She has served on national committees including the Joint Commission’s Expert Advisory Panel guiding the development of hospital standards for culturally competent patient-centered care and the National Quality Forum’s Cultural Competence Steering Committee. Dr. Mutha serves on an expert advisory committee to develop a scorecard to measure the implementation of high-quality primary care and inform national and state policy.

Dr. Mutha is a member of the board of directors of Insure the Uninsured Project, a nonprofit that promotes innovative and workable policy solutions that expand health care access and improve the health of all Californians. She also serves as the national advisory board chair for Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) at UCSF. She previously served on the board of directors for Brown and Toland Medical Group, a comprehensive, multi-specialty independent practice association in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Hospital discharge preparedness for patients with limited English proficiency: A mixed methods study of bedside interpreter-phones.
  Patient education and counseling 2017 Lee JS, Nápoles A, Mutha S, Pérez-Stable EJ, Gregorich SE, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner LS
• Reducing Health Care Disparities for Minority Women in the Era of the Affordable Care Act: Opportunities within Primary Care.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2016 Karliner L, Marks A, Mutha S
• Chapter 9: Organizational Cultural Competency.
  Journal of Transcultural Nursing 2010 Stephen R. Marrone, Sunita Mutha, Gayle Tang
• From the perspective of CEOs: what motivates hospitals to embrace cultural competence?
  Journal of healthcare management / American College of Healthcare Executives 2010 Wilson-Stronks A, Mutha S
• Achieving quality in health care through language access services: lessons from a California public hospital.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2009 Karliner LS, Mutha S
• Evaluation of a train-the-trainer program for cultural competence.
  American journal of pharmaceutical education 2007 Assemi M, Mutha S, Hudmon KS
• Do professional interpreters improve clinical care for patients with limited English proficiency? A systematic review of the literature.
  Health services research 2007 Karliner LS, Jacobs EA, Chen AH, Mutha S
• The need for more research on language barriers in health care: a proposed research agenda.
  The Milbank quarterly 2006 Jacobs E, Chen AH, Karliner LS, Agger-Gupta N, Mutha S
• Legal and regulatory obligations to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate emergency department services.
  Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine 2004 Elizabeth A Jacobs, Alice Hm Chen, Leah Karliner, Julia Puebla Fortier, Sunita Mutha
• A one-stop health care request.
  American family physician 2004 Ogrinc G, Mutha S
• A framework for teaching medical students and residents about practice-based learning and improvement, synthesized from a literature review.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2003 Ogrinc G, Headrick LA, Mutha S, Coleman MT, O'Donnell J, Miles PV
• Evidence for longitudinal ambulatory care rotations: a review of the literature.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2002 Ogrinc G, Mutha S, Irby DM
• Provider-patient roles in chronic disease management.
  Journal of allied health 2002 Stubblefield C, Mutha S
• Improved compliance with universal precautions in the operating room following an educational intervention.
  Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2001 Kim LE, Jeffe DB, Evanoff BA, Mutha S, Freeman B, Fraser J
• Medical practice 2010: how we get there.
  The Western journal of medicine 2000 Mutha S, Norman G, O'Neil E
• Evaluation of a preclinical, educational and skills-training program to improve students' use of blood and body fluid precautions: one-year follow-up.
  Preventive medicine 1999 Jeffe DB, Mutha S, Kim LE, Evanoff BA, Fraser VJ
• Academic health centers: a future of struggles and new identities.
  The Western journal of medicine 1999 Mutha S, Bellack JP, O'Neil EH
• Compliance with Universal Precautions among emergency department personnel: implications for prevention programs.
  American journal of infection control 1999 Kim LE, Evanoff BA, Parks RL, Jeffe DB, Mutha S, Haase C, Fraser VJ
• Healthcare workers' perceptions of occupational exposure.
  Infection control and hospital epidemiology 1999 Mutha S, Jeffe DB, Kim LE, L'Ecuyer PB, Evanoff BA, Fraser VJ
• Compliance with universal precautions among emergency department personnel caring for trauma patients.
  Annals of emergency medicine 1999 Evanoff B, Kim L, Mutha S, Jeffe D, Haase C, Andereck D, Fraser V
• Use of personal protective equipment and operating room behaviors in four surgical subspecialties: personal protective equipment and behaviors in surgery.
  Infection control and hospital epidemiology 1999 Akduman D, Kim LE, Parks RL, L'Ecuyer PB, Mutha S, Jeffe DB, Evanoff BA, Fraser VJ
• Role models--guiding the future of medicine.
  The New England journal of medicine 1998 Skeff KM, Mutha S
• Does Clinical Experience Affect Medical Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Compliance With Universal Precautions?.
  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 1998 Donna B. Jeffe, Sunita Mutha, Lynn E. Kim, Bradley A. Evanoff, Paul B. L'Ecuyer, Victoria J. Fraser
• Does clinical experience affect medical students' knowledge, attitudes, and compliance with universal precautions?
  Infection control and hospital epidemiology 1998 Jeffe DB, Mutha S, Kim LE, Evanoff BA, L'Ecuyer PB, Fraser VJ
• Healthcare Workers' Attitudes and Compliance With Universal Precautions Gender, Occupation, and Specialty Differences.
  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 1997 Donna B. Jeffe, Sunita Mutha, Paul B. L'Ecuyer, Lynn E. Kim, Renee B. Singal, Bradley A. Evanoff, Victoria J. Fraser
• Healthcare workers' attitudes and compliance with universal precautions: gender, occupation, and specialty differences.
  Infection control and hospital epidemiology 1997 Jeffe DB, Mutha S, L'Ecuyer PB, Kim LE, Singal RB, Evanoff BA, Fraser VJ
• Insights into medical students' career choices based on third- and fourth-year students' focus-group discussions.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 1997 Mutha S, Takayama JI, O'Neil EH
• Prognosis and outcomes of patients with community-acquired pneumonia. A meta-analysis.
  JAMA 1996 Fine MJ, Smith MA, Carson CA, Mutha SS, Sankey SS, Weissfeld LA, Kapoor WN
• Enhancing faculty mentoring of medical students.
  Teaching and Learning in Medicine 1996 Karen Seal, Sunita Mutha
• Salary inequities and health care costs.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 1995 Mutha S, McMurray JE
• Enhancing professionalism.
  Annals of internal medicine 1994 Seifer SD, O'Neil EH, Mutha S
• Admission, recruitment, and retention: finding and keeping the generalist-oriented student. SGIM Task Force on Career Choice in Primary Care and Internal Medicine.
  Journal of general internal medicine 1994 Linzer M, Slavin T, Mutha S, Takayama JI, Branda L, VanEyck S, McMurray JE, Rabinowitz HK