Sam Oh serves as the Director of Epidemiology at the UCSF Asthma Collaboratory, where he examines the effect of genetics and environment on asthma risk,

severity, and response to medications. He is passionate about resolving difficult public health problems that affect underdog communities that are too often ignored

in biomedical research. Racial and ethnic minorities currently make up 40% of the US population yet have been represented in only 4.4% of NIH-funded pulmonary

research since 1993. Dr. Oh studies asthma, the most racially disparate common disease.