Claire Brindis is a Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy at UCSF, as well as the Director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) at UCSF. She has held both positions for nearly 40 years. She was born in Argentina, and immigrated to the United States as a child. She received her BA and her MA from UCLA, and her PhD in Public Health from UC Berkeley in 1982.

Dr. Brindis's work focuses on program evaluation and the translation of research into policy at the local, state, and national level. She is interested in social, health, and economic disparities among ethnic/racial populations, with a particular focus on women, young adults, and adolescents and reproductive health, as well as Latinx communities. Her work also focuses on the impact socioeconomic status on access to quality care and health insurance, and seeks to involve consumers in health care system redesign.

She has published a number of books, countless journal articles, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including UCSF’s Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women in 2009, election to the IOM (now National Academy of Medicine) in 2010.