Executive Director, Health and Human Rights Initiative (HHRI)
UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences
Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH is the Executive Director of the UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative. She is an expert clinician and trainer on medical evaluations of asylum seekers and survivors of torture and ill-treatment. She is an Assistant Professor at University of California, San Francisco Department (UCSF) in the Division of General Internal Medicine and core faculty in the Institute of Global Health Sciences. She is a physician who is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.