2026 UC PRIME Statewide Conference

Dr. Stephanie Kang brings extensive experience advancing health systems and policy change through U.S. federal, state, and local government service across diverse sociopolitical contexts. She currently serves as the inaugural Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Health Equity at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where she leads statewide efforts to embed equity in policy, data, and governance. Previously, she directed the launch of Tennessee’s first Bureau of Health Equity in her hometown of Nashville, overseeing multi-million-dollar initiatives to strengthen public health infrastructure, workforce development, and community partnerships. Earlier in her career, Dr. Kang served as Health Policy Director for U.S House of Representatives Congressmember Pramila Jayapal, where she utilized inside-outside organizing strategies on a range of health policy issues, including universal health care reform and access to care for immigrant communities. Her professional background also includes nonprofit leadership, global health projects in Haiti and Kenya, and research at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. She holds a Doctor of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, an MS in Global Health from Northwestern University, and a BS in Neuroscience from Northeastern University. 

Zarin Noor MD, MPH is a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland Primary Care clinic.  Her experience as a refugee from Afghanistan led her to an educational and career path focused on caring for immigrant families. She is the Director of the International Clinic within the Primary Care clinic, which focuses on the medical care of immigrant and refugee pediatric patients. She is part of the founding team of the Center of Excellence in Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing.  This Center focuses on research, training, education, advocacy, and policy specific to the immigrant pediatric patients. Through her work with this Center and the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative, she helped start one of the first pediatric specific asylum clinics in the US. In addition to immigrant health, she is actively involved in resident education. She serves as an associate program director for the pediatric residency program in Oakland. Dr. Noor has worked in collaboration with her pediatric residents to develop a comprehensive immigrant health curriculum for the pediatric residents in her program.

Raised in rural Pennsylvania from a refugee family who fled war torn Vietnam, Dr. Banh has worked his entire career in safety net medicine and physician education programs targeting students from disadvantaged backgrounds.  Dr. Banh attended University of Pennsylvania for college and Drexel University for medical school. He has been at UCSF Fresno since 2004 initially as an Emergency Medicine resident before joining faculty. Besides working as in Emergency Medicine, his main administrative roles include Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education, Directing the UCSF Fresno’s Mobile Health and Learning (HeaL) clinic and serving as the current chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Regional Campuses.