Jyothi Marbin

Jyothi Marbin, MD, serves as Director of the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP) based at UC Berkeley School of Public Health and holds a Clinical Professor position in Pediatrics at UCSF, where she practices as a general pediatrician at San Francisco General Hospital.

Her educational background includes:

• BA from Brown University
• MD from Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University
• Residency training with PLUS Program at UCSF
• UCSF Teaching Scholars Program completion (2017)
• Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University (2020)

Dr. Marbin's work centers on dismantling systemic racism in medical training through anti-racism curricula development and health equity initiatives. Her expertise spans health disparities research, asthma management in underserved populations, and innovative medical education models focused on racial justice. She has pioneered programs integrating social determinants of health into clinical training.

Her distinguished contributions include:

• Membership in the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators
• 2021 UCSF Lloyd Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service to the School of Medicine

As a nationally recognized speaker, Dr. Marbin has shaped medical education discourse through leadership roles including Associate Program Director for Recruitment and DEI in UCSF's Pediatrics residency, Director of the Pediatric Leaders Advancing Health Equity (PLUS) Residency Program, and Founder/Co-Director of the Health Equity & Racial Justice GME Pathway. Her advocacy extends to policy-level health equity work through the JMP's Washington DC health policy immersion program.

She directs critical institutional initiatives including the Health Equity & Racial Justice GME Pathway and PLUS Residency Program, which train physicians to address structural inequities in healthcare delivery and medical education systems.