Dear Members of the UCSF Community:

UCSF and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG) are partnering together to build a state-of-the-art research and academic facility that will bring together nearly 800 UCSF clinicians, clinical researchers, staff, and trainees currently dispersed among several existing buildings on the ZSFG campus. The new facility would be designed and built by UCSF and located at ZSFG.

As you may know, UCSF faculty and staff at ZSFG devote their time to make ZSFG one of the nation’s premier public hospitals by caring for the underserved, discovering new ways to prevent and cure disease, and treating traumatic injuries. Additional information about the UCSF partnership and research at ZSFG is available at ucsf.edu.

Please join me and other members of the UCSF community in reaching out to the members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to let them know that you support this project and UCSF’s work at ZSFG.

The ZSFG project is scheduled to be heard by the Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Finance Committee on Wednesday, January 18, and by the entire Board on Tuesday, January 24. The project has been endorsed by the San Francisco Health Commission and the UC Regents. Approval by the Board of Supervisors would allow UCSF to proceed with the design and construction of the research facility.

Please take a moment to send an email to the Board of Supervisors and make your voice heard on this important matter. Let’s...