Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor at University of California (UCSF) in the Department of 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. She completed medical school, residency and fellowship training at UCSF. She practices primary care and addiction medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. She serves as the Executive Director of the UCSF Human Rights Initiative and co-directs the UCSF Human Rights Collaborative where leads a program providing and training on forensic medical evaluations. She co-founded the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative and has collaborated with human rights experts to increase the capacity of clinicians to perform documentation of human rights abuses using trauma-informed care and the Istanbul Protocol. Her special interests are in immigrant health, human rights, and addiction medicine.
Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH
