Elizabeth Watkins PhD

lizabeth Watkins is dean of the Graduate Division, vice chancellor of Student Academic Affairs, and professor of History of Health Sciences. She came to UCSF in 2004 and has served as dean since April 2012 and as vice chancellor since August 2013. She earned her B.A. in biology and her Ph.D. in history of science, both at Harvard University.

Dr. Watkins studies the interplay among medicine, commerce, and culture in the U.S. in the 20th-21st centuries and is especially interested in relationships among biomedical researchers, health care providers, lay people, drug makers, government regulators, and the media and how information flows among these groups.