UC San Francisco

Marcus A. Conant, MD, dermatologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, helped lead San Francisco's first coordinated medical response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Call number: MSS 98-39

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

Includes photographs, correspondence, reports and academic plans, administrative records, publications, ephemera, audiovisual recordings, and artifacts documenting the history and activities of the California College of Pharmacy and UCSF School of Pharmacy and its students. Call number: MSS 2011-23

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

Selma K. Dritz, MD, MPH, served as Assistant Director of the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control and Chief of the Division of Occupational Health of the San Francisco Department of Public Health from 1967-1984. She played a seminal role in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area, tracking cases and collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to help establish the etiology and epidemiology of the disease. She worked to educate gay and straight people about AIDS and its prevention. Call number: MSS ...

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

Selections from the papers of Donald P. Francis (1942-), epidemiologist and pediatrician. Francis worked for the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for 21 years, before joining Genentech in 1992 and later co-founding VaxGen and Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases (GSID). He has extensive experience in vaccines, public health, and infectious disease control, including national and international work with measles, cholera, Ebola, smallpox, hepatitis, and HIV/AIDS. Call number: MSS 2015-01

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

From 2005 until 2008, Gallaher, a UK-based tobacco company which was later bought by Japan Tobacco International (JTI), spent three years in a bitter legal battle against its former Middle Eastern distributor. More than 20,000 internal documents were disclosed in the course of the litigation between Gallaher and the Cypriot company, Tlais Enterprises. This collection is a subset of those documents. During the trial, Gallaher was accused of "complicity in facilitating worldwide smuggling, sanction-busting in Iraq, and the dumping of sub-standard cigarettes in Africa and Afghanistan," according to the British press.

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Industry Documents Library

Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer winning science journalist and public health and policy advocate. She has written extensively on global health systems, chronic and infectious diseases, and bioterrorism. Call number: MSS 2013-03.

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

Michael Stuart Gottlieb is an American physician and immunologist known for his 1981 identification of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a new disease. This collection contains published papers by Gottlieb and many others on AIDS-related topics. It also includes information on various AIDS drug treatment studies, professional and personal correspondence, and information about various talks and events attended by Gottlieb during the 1980s. It also includes materials related to Gottlieb's AIDS-related philanthropic work, as well as materials related to his time as actor Rock Hudson's personal physician until the actor's death from AIDS in 1985. Call number: MSS 2019-34

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

Selections from the Grande Vista Sanatorium Collection. The sanatorium, also known as the Belgum Sanatorium, was founded by Dr. Hendrik Belgum in 1914 near Richmond, California. Dr. Belgum treated a variety of mental and physical ailments. Call number: MSS 2013-4.

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

Selections from the papers of John S. Greenspan, BDS, PhD. Greenspan is Director-Emeritus of the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF and is the founding Director of the UCSF Oral AIDS Center and the UCSF AIDS Specimen Bank. He and his longtime collaborator Deborah Greenspan have made major contributions to dentistry and HIV research and care, including the discovery of the lesion hairy leukoplakia. Call number: MSS 2016-14

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections

The Guerilla Clinic was an informal, "underground" group of AIDS activists who obtained unapproved, experimental drugs (mostly from Mexico) and distributed them at cost to PWAs who wanted them. This carton of records was produced and/or compiled by Blaine Elswood, who donated them to UCSF's Special Collections in 1990. Elswood was a founder and major activist of the Guerilla Clinic. Call number: MSS 90-13

Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections