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Muñoz (Ricardo) F. Papers
SFGH.2016.007  
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  • Biographical / Historical
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  • Contributing Institution: Barnett-Briggs Medical Library, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center
    Title: Ricardo F. Muñoz Papers
    Identifier/Call Number: SFGH.2016.007
    Physical Description: 1.25 Linear Feet (1 carton)
    Date (inclusive): 1965-1990
    Date (bulk): 1987-1990
    Language of Material: English .

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Ricardo F. Muñoz Papers, 2016-007. Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Collection is open for research.

    Publication Rights

    Copyright has not been assigned to the Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

    Biographical / Historical

    Ricardo Felipe Muñoz is an academic, psychologist, and author. He is a Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology and Founding Director for the Institute for International Internet Interventions for Health (i4Health) at Palo Alto University. Muñoz also taught at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Department of Psychiatry at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital from 1977 to 2012.
    Muñoz immigrated from Peru to San Francisco in 1961. He completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford and his doctorate at the University of Oregon. Muñoz's work and research focused on the development of prevention and treatment interventions for depression. He founded the SFGH Depression Clinic in 1985, the first cognitive-behavioral service at UCSF. In 1992 he founded the UCSF/SFGH Latino Mental Health Research Program and the UCSF/SFGH Internet World Health Research Center in 2004. He most recently founded i4Health in 2012, a continuation of projects initiated by the Latino Mental Health Research Program; i4Health works on ways to provide health and mental health services to underserved communities around the world by providing them with mobile Apps and online interventions and resources.

    Scope and Contents

    This collection contains documents relating to Ricardo F. Muñoz's work in Chicano/Latino/Minority issues at UCSF and UC-wide. Included are meeting minutes, correspondence, docucments related to UCSF diversity programs and efforts and newspaper clippings.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    San Francisco General Hospital (Calif.)
    Diversity in higher education