Anita Hargrave, MD

Dr. Anita Hargrave-Bouagnon MD, MAS (she/her) is a physician-researcher who is committed to a career in patient oriented and policy relevant research aimed at improving health outcomes for people who have experienced trauma through community engaged and implementation science strategies. Dr. Hargrave works as a general internist at the Richard Fine People’s Clinic, part of the San Francisco Health Network safety-net system, and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Hargrave has completed health policy and ethnographic research in Ecuador and Europe as a Fulbright and Phi Beta Kappa Scholar. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Clinical and Epidemiological Research (MAS) at UCSF through the National Clinicians Scholars Program (NCSP) where her work included evaluating the association between trauma and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Hargrave is currently a BIRCWH K-12 Scholar, where she is studying the impact of traumatic experiences on leading causes of mortality and morbidity for women Veterans including heart disease, cancer, tobacco use, and suicide using a longitudinal national cohort. The findings generated from her BIRCWH K-12 research will identify primary performance gaps in management of disease risk factors for women. Her work will inform future women’s health programs aimed at decreasing premature death and improving health outcomes by leveraging trauma-informed interventions to improve engagement in evidence-based treatments. Dr. Hargrave is a faculty member of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI), where her work has focused on analyzing the intersection of violence and homelessness in the California Statewide Study of Homelessness. She is also led the COMPASS Study through the Center to Advance Trauma Informed Health Care (CTHC), which aimed to identify best practices in communication and relationship-building between primary care clinicians and their patients who have histories of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) or other trauma. Dr. Hargrave is an affiliate faculty member of the Women’s Health Clinical Research Center and the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Her work has been featured in various media outlets including the LA Times, SF Chronical, and SF Examiner.