THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Paula Braveman, M.D., MPH

“I had no clue about women’s oppression until I started being involved with women who had a clue. It just put a lens there that never has gone away.”

Author, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, May 2025