Dr. Monica Hahn is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF in the Department of Family & Community Medicine. As a family physician, HIV specialist, and Clinical Director/Co-Principal Investigator of the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC), Monica’s work centers around promoting health and wellness for HIV-affected families with an emphasis on integrating HIV prevention and treatment, as well as sexual and reproductive wellness, into primary care. Her clinical experience includes co-directing the Family HIV Clinic, a family-oriented HIV primary care clinic at San Francisco General Hospital’s Family Health Center, and providing perinatal HIV care to people living with or affected by HIV as the Associate Medical Director at HIVE Clinic, also based at San Francisco General Hospital.

Monica’s interests include integrating anti-oppression, cultural humility, and Critical Race praxis frameworks into medical education and training for students, residents, and interdisciplinary care teams. She serves as a research and career mentor to UCSF medical students as the Faculty co-Director of the PRIME Urban-Underserved program at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. She co-directs the Pacific AETC-supported HIV specialty concentration training program for the UCSF Family & Community Medicine Residency Program.

Monica’s inspiration for becoming a physician-activist is rooted in her personal experiences and work experiences in public health and social justice activism. Her work has focused on addressing health inequities in HIV prevention and care for communities of color and developing strategies for dismantling systemic oppression and structural violence in healthcare systems to advance health equity for all.

Education + Training

  • University of California, Berkeley - MPH 2006 Public Health

  • University of California, San Francisco - M.S. 2009 Medicine

  • University of California, San Francisco - M.D. 2011 Medicine

  • UCSF/SFGH Family and Community Medicine Residency 2014 - Residency program

  • American Academy of HIV MedicineHIV Specialist AAHIVS 2014 - American Academy of HIV Medicine

  • University of California, San Francisco, CA - 2018 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training

Notable Awards + Honors

2023 Fierce Healthcare, Fierce 50 Leader in Patient Advocacy

2023 Physicians for a Healthy California, Health Equity Leadership Award

2022 American Academy of Family Physicians, AAFP Public Health Award

2021 National Minority Quality Forum, 40 Under 40 Leader in Minority Health

2021 California Academy of Family Physicians, Educator of the Year

2021 UCSF Family Medicine Educational Alliance, Award for Advancing DEIA in Education

2021 UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine, UCSF FCM Excellence in Student Teaching Award

  • “Equitable Partnerships for Equitable Health Outcomes”, UCSF Family & Community Medicine Grand Rounds Presentation 3/1/2024. In partnership with Tenderloin community organizations Skywatchers and Faithful Fools, we have created this powerful storytelling project centering the voices of community experts and patients living in the Tenderloin who have experienced medical and healthcare trauma due to various systems of oppression including medical racism and other forces driving structural inequities. We hope that all of us working in the healthcare system, can take the time and space to reflect and interrogate our roles and act on our sense of responsibility for disrupting these harmful systems.

    ✨ Introducing innovative experiential learning spaces like Community Grand Rounds, we hope more of these critical conversations can happen, with a restorative justice, liberatory consciousness, and healing justice lens.

    Recording available on YouTube

  • USCHA HIV & Antiracism poster: “Towards Anti-Racism Praxis in HIV Clinical Care: Developing an Anti-Racism Curriculum for HIV providers”. USCHA 2023, Aminta Kouyate and Monica Hahn.

  • "Practicing Antiracism: A Curriculum for the HIV Healthcare Workforce". National Ryan White Conference 2022

  • HIV and infant feeding: A case study in evolving practice with an anti-oppression and reproductive justice lens - Deborah Cohan MD MPH, Monica Hahn, MD MPH MS, Lealah Pollock MD MS, Theodore Ruel MD

  • “Racism is a Pubic Health Emergency” community forum hosted by Dance Mission 6/11/2020

  • New Pandemic, Old Inequities: Impacts of COVID-19 and HIV on Marginalized Populations | AIDS Education and Training Centers National Coordinating Resource Center (AETC NCRC) - Webinar March 26, 2021.

  • CME course speaker: Understanding the Impact of the Structural Racism on Clinical Care: Lessons from HIV and COVID-19

  • Interview on Good Morning America about advocacy to end the FDA blood donation ban for gay men: FDA 'commencing a study' that could lead to the removal of a once-lifetime ban on gay men donating blood as COVID-19 survivor says he was turned away from blood center for being gay

  • “The State of Healing & Justice in Medicine: Past, Present, Future“ as part of the co-founding team of the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine. September 2022.

  • Inaugural Community Grand Rounds, “Conversations: Structures of Harm, Practices of Healing”. Primary Care Ground Rounds and Antiracism Town Hall. 1/19/2022

  • Public Health Award Winner Advances Change, Justice, Equity. To say that Monica Hahn, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., wears many hats is putting it mildly.

Key Presentations + Publications

“Dr. Hahn is one of the most enthusiastic and approachable educators I have witnessed, consistently highlighting the strengths and resilience of learners in ways that are powerfully uplifting.”

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