The pandemic changed everything, but not our research mission to make the world a healthier place. That remains unchanged and our work unfinished.

These are the stories of how we confronted a pandemic unprecedented in modern times, emerging stronger and better across its missions of research, clinical care and education.

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UC San Diego Health Sciences comprises the region’s only
academic health system, one of the nation’s top research-intensive schools of medicine, the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Longevity Science and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Published December 10, 2021

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Pradeep K. Khosla
Chancellor, University of California San Diego
David A. Brenner, MD
Vice Chancellor for UC San Diego Health Sciences
Patricia Maysent
Chief Executive Officer, UC San Diego Health
Cheryl A.M. Anderson, PhD
Dean, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
Kim Kennedy
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, UC San Diego Health Sciences
Publication Design
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Editors
Heather Buschman, PhD
Scott LaFee
Contributors
Michelle Brubaker
Jacqueline Carr
Yadira Galindo
Inga Kiderra
Erin Lavigna
Nicole Mlynaryk
Ioana Patringenaru
Melanie Peters
Sandra Phillips
Cheryl Robinson
Jeanna Vazquez
Photography and Visuals
Kyle Dykes
Erik Jepsen
Eric Mattei
Eric Neri
Michael Sterner

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