Welcome to the UCSF Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control (HEIC). Within this website you will find resources for reducing the risk of infection and exposure to communicable diseases.

If you have an Infection Control concern, please call:

415.353.4343 (Mon-Fri 8am-5pm)
415.443.2644 (On-call pager, 7 days a week)

HEIC Mission : We Change Culture

We align ourselves with the
Mission of UCSF Medical Center:

CARING: We listen to our patients, students, staff and faculty in order to understand and appreciate infection-related concerns.

HEALING: We work with the people involved in patient and employee care to implement logical applications for effective, science-based, persistent and pervasive infection-prevention strategies.

TEACHING: We teach infection prevention awareness and behaviors formally in the Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, the UCSF schools, and in the community and informally at every opportunity.

DISCOVERING: We investigate the root causes of infection problems; then we persistently seek solutions through collaboration, research and analysis of infection-related science.