Utilize the resources provided below to help make your work in our Division easier and more efficient. If you would like to add or update resources, please contact us at [email protected].
COVID-19 Resources for Employees
The University has developed a wide variety of resources related to COVID-19 operations and activities. Please reference the links below for more information:
All DEM members are required to input their hours into our master calendar for each lab/shared space they work each day in order to help maintain our adherence to head counts and for contact tracing as needed.
ZSFG Daily Health Screening Tool
Complete this screening form once per day before you come to work on the same day as your shift
This centralized page of information and resources provides expansive information for staff and faculty at all campuses.
Administration
To order items for your lab that are not available in BearBuy, please complete the Pcard Request Form and Nicole will follow-up with you to process your request.
DEM maintains a set of e-mail distribution lists (Listservs) for cross-sections of people in our Division. This document includes the list name, e-mail address, and member’s names.
DEM Security Guidelines
Our research is of critical importance, and at times controversial. As such, maintaining the security of our space is important. The security guidelines address wearing your ID badges, riding the elevator with unknown guests, and addressing unbadged people within our space.
DEM Visitor Policy
There are many visitors in our secure space. Our Visitor Policy outlines how we will received guests for visitors and Conference Room guests.
Our Division maintains a database of emergency contact information for every person who is authorized to access our space. This information is for emergency use within the Division and is submitted to UCSF and ZSFG as a part of the annual Emergency Action Plan.
Landed: Program to Help UCSF Staff and Faculty Buy Homes
Housing Services is pleased to connect UCSF employees with Landed, a personal finance company that provides employees of health care and educational institutions, including UCSF, down-payment support and other home-buying resources. A Landed video is also available at: https://www.landed.com/how-it-works.
Anti-Racism Resources
Actions:
21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge by Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr.
Justice in June by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace’s
Definitions:
Being antiracist is fighting against racism. Racism takes several forms and works most often in tandem with at least one other form to reinforce racist ideas, behavior, and policy. (https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/being-antiracist)
Types of racism are:
Individual racism refers to the beliefs, attitudes, and actions of individuals that support or perpetuate racism in conscious and unconscious ways. The U.S. cultural narrative about racism typically focuses on individual racism and fails to recognize systemic racism.
Examples include believing in the superiority of white people, not hiring a person of color because “something doesn’t feel right,” or telling a racist joke.
Interpersonal racism occurs between individuals. These are public expressions of racism, often involving slurs, biases, or hateful words or actions.
Institutional racism occurs in an organization. These are discriminatory treatments, unfair policies, or biased practices based on race that result in inequitable outcomes for whites over people of color and extend considerably beyond prejudice. These institutional policies often never mention any racial group, but the intent is to create advantages.
Example: A school system where students of color are more frequently distributed into the most crowded classrooms and underfunded schools and out of the higher-resourced schools.
Structural racism is the overarching system of racial bias across institutions and society. These systems give privileges to white people resulting in disadvantages to people of color.
Example: Stereotypes of people of color as criminals in mainstream movies and media.
White Privilege Inherent advantages possessed by a white person on the basis of their race in a society characterized by racial inequality and injustice. (Google Definition)
Listen:
'Interrupt The Systems': Robin DiAngelo On 'White Fragility' And Anti-Racism, NPR with Ari Shapiro (11-minutes)
'Me And White Supremacy' Helps You Do The Work Of Dismantling Racism NPR with Eric Decgans (16-minutes)
Movies:
Teach Us All (Documentary)
PBS: The Origin of Race in the USA By Danielle Bainbridge
Reads:
Articles:
Anti-racism primer for medical educators A living and iterative resource by Meghan O’Brien MD, MBE, Rachel Fields, MS, and Andrea Jackson, MD, MAS,with support from UCSF Differences Matter Working Group 3
Everyday words and phrases that have racist connotations By Scottie Andrew and Harmeet Kaur, CNN
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D. Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College
Books:
Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future Book by Shaun King · 2020
Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad · 2020
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson · 2018
Websites:
How White People Can Talk To Each Other About Disrupting Racism Dosomething.org
Additional Resources:
Anti-Racism resources for white people
Thiis document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.
UCSF lead resources:
Equipment
Flow Core Info
There are several options for Flow Core resources. The UCSF Parnassus Flow Core and the Core Immunology Lab both offer a variety of fee for service options. Check them out and schedule your time today.
Our laboratories and the Division have identified equipment that is available for use by other members of our Division. This map highlights the DEM Common equipment.
Common Equipment Calendar
To utilize the DEM Common Equipment, please make an appointment via the following calendar: https://teamup.com/ks793ae219ab6b3604/
Lab Equipment List
This list provides a report of laboratory equipment in Experimental Medicine, along with the availability to share with other labs in the Division.
Facilities
DEM is a tenant of the space in Building 3. Therefore, we receive facilities support from UCSF, the SF Department of Public Health, and contractors. If you encounter an issue, please contact Vanessa York or Justin Moore.
If you encounter a light bulb burnt out in DEM, please notify Vanessa or Justin. Additionally, you may submit a request to replace the bulb and forward the request information over to Vanessa or Justin. You may only submit a request if you are connected to the UCSF WPA network.
If you encounter a facilities issue in DEM, please notify Vanessa or Justin. Additionally, you may submit a request to repair the issue and forward the request information over to Vanessa or Justin. You may only submit a request if you are connected to the UCSF WPA network.
ZSFG Engineering
If you encounter an emergency facilities issue, including an alarming hood, please call the ZSFG Engineering at 628-206-8522.
UCSF at ZSFG contracts with an outside custodial service. Please find attached the custodial agreement.
Human Resources
Academic Salary Information
https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/compensation/2019-20-academic-salary-scales.html
Specialists (Represented)
https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/1920/1819-ra-scales/t24-b.pdf
Specialist (Non-Represented)
https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/1920/1920-adj-scales/t24-a.pdf
Professional Researcher (Represented)
https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/1920/1819-ra-scales/t13-b.pdf
Professional Researcher (Non-Represented)
https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/1920/1920-adj-scales/t13-a.pdf
Post Doc Salary Scale
https://gladstone.org/connect/postdocs/training-program/salary-and-benefits
Staff Title and Pay Search
https://myhr.ucsf.edu/index.php/tpp/tpp_detail
UCSF Campus Volunteer Information
Meetings
DEM Steering Committee Meeting (DEMSC)
The DEMSC, comprised of faculty and staff, provide input to DEM leadership through the discussion of emerging issues that shape the future of the Division. This committee meets bi-monthly.
Faculty Meeting
Our faculty meet on a bi-monthly basis to discuss issues pertinent to the faculty experience.
Lab Manager Meeting
This monthly meeting is for Lab Managers to receive updates on policies, discussion solutions to new challenges in their labs, and to collaborate and share knowledges with colleagues.
Quality of Life Committee
The mission of this committee is to foster an environment promoting camaraderie and community through social and recreational gatherings to improve the quality of life within the DEM.
Safety & Equipment Committee Meeting
The goal of this committee is to provide for an open forum discussion and resolution of issues related to the safe use of laboratories, equipment, and facilities, within the DEM. The DEM Safety Committee. (DSC) reviews new and existing safety policies, as well as recommends safety practices and standards, which are implemented by the DEM investigators and their research and/or core laboratories. In addition, the DSC helps to create the training standards to be followed by all DEM members. To this end, the DSC approves and maintains the Safety Training Manuals for the DEM BSL2* and BSL2 laboratories. In addition, this committee is to facilitate the purchasing, maintenance, and operations of all large equipment in the DEM.
Seminar Series (Formerly Inter-Lab Meeting (ILM))
The purpose of this weekly meeting is to facilitate educational opportunities in DEM. View the upcoming Seminar Series speakers or click here to view recordings of previous seminars.
Research
Resource Allocation Program (RAP) Grants
RAP is a campus-wide program whose aim is to coordinate intramural research funding opportunities for the UCSF campus and its affiliates while allowing funding agencies to maintain full autonomy over their funding mechanisms and awardees. The program manages the dissemination, submission, review and award of various intramural funding opportunities.
TB Research and Mentorship Program (RAMP)
The program is designed to prepare early-stage investigators (fellows, postdocs, and junior faculty) from UCSF and UC Berkeley for successful careers in TB research. Through this research education program focused on TB, the TB Center seeks to promote and catalyze collaborations between existing faculty across disciplines (infectious diseases, pulmonary medicine, experimental medicine, systems biology, genomics, immunology, health economics, pharmacy, nursing, implementation sciences, diplomacy and policy, global health, etc.); attract and cultivate early-stage investigators in the TB field; and strengthen TB research expertise both at UCSF and UC Berkeley.
Safety
Emergency Action Plan (EAP)
The EAP is This plan outlines our Division’s preparedness measures and priority actions for managing emergencies, from small accidents to citywide disasters, and includes:
- Personnel roster
- Inventory of emergency supplies
- Evacuation plan and exit routes
- Special staff assignments/needs list
- Location of your emergency evacuation assembly areas
- Critical functions, data or research to be protected
- Worksite emergency coordinator and floor wardens
- Alternate floor wardens and emergency coordinators to serve in absence of primary floor wardens and emergency coordinators.
- Emergency communication and after-hours notification plan
- Campus emergency phone locations