Renee Hsia, MD, MSc
Dr. Renee Hsia is Professor and Associate Chair of Health Services Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UCSF. She is also a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies, the Institute of Global Health Sciences, and the Global Health Economics Consortium. Dr. Hsia has worked in numerous countries focusing on access to emergency care and changes in patient outcomes after health delivery system reorganization. In a global context, her work includes assessing the global burden of disease related to emergency care, emergency care and surgical training programs in global contexts, and cost-effectiveness of training programs in sub-Saharan Africa. She has provided baseline and other data on existing emergency and surgical services for future planning on human and infrastructure investments needed to strengthen service provision in sub-Saharan Africa.
As Co-Director of the UCSF PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency and Trauma Care, Dr. Hsia’s focus is on increasing access to emergency care globally to underserved populations in LMICs. Her work in analyzing the global burden of acute disease that can be addressed by emergency care systems has resulted the development of metrics that allow countries to determine desirable and feasible measures to accurately reflect a population’s access to emergency care.
Dr. Hsia received her undergraduate training at Princeton University, her Master’s of Public Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics, her medical degree at Harvard, and her post-doctoral and residency training in Emergency Medicine at Stanford.