Sohil Sud, MD
Dr. Sud serves as Director of the Children & Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, California’s multi-year multi-billion investment to transform the way children, youth, and families receive behavioral health services and supports. Prior to this role, he supported the California Department of Public Health and led Safe Schools for All, the state’s interagency team to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in TK-12 schools.
Dr. Sud cares for newborns and hospitalized children. He completed his clinical training at UCSF in the Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved (PLUS) program and served as Chief Resident at San Francisco General Hospital. He earned his medical degree with research honors from Tufts University, holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Tufts Fletcher School, and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University.
Dr. Sud is a faculty affiliate of the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences and former Chair of the Pediatrics Department of Washington Hospital Healthcare System. He published peer-reviewed manuscripts on topics ranging from COVID-19 to trade policy and served on the advisory boards of the American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 1 and of Adolescent Health Champions.
Education
Lin E, Bilinski A, Collender PA, Lee V, Sud SR, León TM, White LA, Remais JV, Head JR. COVID-19 Incidence and Age Eligibility for Elementary School. JAMA network open 2024. PMID: 39541118
Le Marchand C, Rizzo K, Nakamura R, Bornstein L, Bardach NS, Pritchard D, Medlin S, Ahmed A, Cornejo M, Moser L, Bakhtar O, Silver LD, Iton A, May L, Kimsey P, Sud SR, Pan E, Jacobson K, Glaser C. Implementation and Performance of a Point-of-Care COVID-19 Test Program in 4,000 California Schools. The Journal of pediatrics 2024. PMID: 38945441
Head JR, Collender PA, León TM, White LA, Sud SR, Camponuri SK, Lee V, Lewnard JA, Remais JV. COVID-19 Vaccination and Incidence of Pediatric SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Hospitalization. JAMA network open 2024. PMID: 38652476
Sud SR. COVID-19 and Keeping Clean: A Narrative Review To Ascertain the Efficacy of Personal Protective Equipment To Safeguard Health Care Workers Against SARS-CoV-2. Hospital pediatrics 2020. PMID: 32385055
Winger BA, Foy E, Sud SR, MacKenzie JD, Pua HH, Lau AH, Heyman MB, Laszik Z, Tureen J. Mycobacterium bovis Enterocolitis in an Immunocompromised Host. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2016. PMID: 26020480
Sud SR, Brenner JE, Shaffer ER. Trading Away Health: The Influence of Trade Policy on Youth Tobacco Control. The Journal of pediatrics 2015. PMID: 25681200
Sud SR, Barnert ES, Waters E, Simon P. Do medical professionalism and medical education involve commitments to political advocacy? Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2011. PMID: 21865893
Sud SR, Montenegro-Bethancourt G, Bermúdez OI, Heaney RP, Armas L, Solomons NW. Older Mayan residents of the western highlands of Guatemala lack sufficient levels of vitamin D. Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.) 2010. PMID: 21130292