UCSF - Center for Health Research, is a research unit common to the university hospitals of The Capital Region of Denmark. The research center is primarily directed towards professional groups that have educational backgrounds within professional healthcare. UCSF is led by a steering committee and is anchored at Rigshospitalet.

Purpose of UCSF

• To develop and realize close-to-patient clinical intervention research in an interdisciplinary cooperation, through research
• To advance research professional competences through research counseling and tuition primarily directed towards health care professionals with profession bachelor educations
• To promote application of research results by supporting implementation of evidence-based knowledge
• To complete patient treatment (Body & Cancer/EXHALE) that relate to research activities at UCSF
  

The scientific basic activities consist of completion of research projects, research counseling and tuition in combination with development of theory and methods.

To fulfill these purposes, UCSF intends to:

• Initiate and carry through with research projects in collaboration with the hospitals and psychiatric department of the Capital Region
• Initiate, support and provide scientific guidance to PhD students
• Provide research courses and tuition programs
• Initiate projects in cooperation with the hospitals' research units and clinical environments
• Inspire researchers to join and build social networks – both in the Capital Region as well as in international and Nordic research networks​
  

Research - strategies and focus areas

• Exercise and cancer
  
• Education and health
• Rehabilitation and palliation
• Health inequalities
• Cancer and user involvement
• ​Theory and methods​​

Organization

The steering committee of UCSF consists of the following members:

• Malene Fischer (chairman), Director of Research, Rigshospitalet
• Charlotte Hess, Unit Manager, Capital Region of Denmark 
  
• Pernille Welinder, Deputy Director, Hospital of Northern Zealand
• Tina Holm Nielsen, Deputy Director, Amager/Hvidovre Hospital
• Kirsten Wisborg, Deputy Director, Bispebjerg/Frederiksberg Hospital
• René Priess, Deputy Director, Herlev/Gentofte Hospital
  
• Iben Kyhn Riis, Deputy Director, Bornholm Hospital
  
• Maria Kristiansen, Professor & Head of Center, University of Copenhagen
• Jakob Harder, Dean, University College Copenhagen
  
• Morten Quist, Senior Researcher, UCSF
  
• Kristian Larsen, Head of Research, UCSF​