Dayna Long

Dr. Dayna Long is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Long has been a primary care pediatrician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland for over 20 years. For the past 5 years, she has also served as the co-Director of Center for Child and Community Health (CCCH). The mission of CCCH is to be a positive force for all children to live a full, vibrant and healthy life. Dr. Long accomplishes this mission through clinical transformation, health equity science, and systems leadership. She dedicates her career to eliminating childhood health inequities that lead to poor health, financial and educational outcomes for families and young children on both individual and population levels. Dr. Long leads numerous research studies on health, adversity, trauma and resiliency. She is a co-Principal Investigator of the Pediatrics Adverse Childhood and Resilience Study (PEARLS). The PEARLS tool screens and measures children for experiences in their daily environment that puts them at risk for toxic stress. She also directs the Family Information and Navigation Desk (FIND), along with the FINDconnect technology platform, which address the social and environmental factors affecting children’s health outcomes. During COVID, Dr. Long worked with multidisciplinary colleagues to found the Oakland Mutual Aid Collective, a grass roots movement to distributed tens of thousands of masks, gloves and hand sanitizer for under-resourced, marginalized and vulnerable communities in Oakland, California. Dr. Long has demonstrated leadership on a local, state and national level. As a steering committee member of First 5 Alameda County/Help Me Grow, Dr. Long advocates for children. She is the co-chair for the city of Oakland’s Health Impact Table where she cultivates and amplifies cross-sector Oakland-based initiatives working to change the odds for our children and families—fostering equity that will last generations. As a consultant to California’s Surgeon General, the Department of Health Care Services for the ACES Aware initiative, Dr. Long supports the state in implementing universal trauma screening in primary care clinics. Nationally, she is a subject matter expert on children’s health for National Association Medicaid Directors. She also serves as the Senior Adviser on ACES to the World Bank. In 2014 she received the prestigious National Service Award from the Corporation for National Service for the 20th Anniversary of AmeriCorps from President Clinton and Obama. She is the 2016 Girls Inc., Alameda STRONG awardee, received the 2018 Genius Leadership Award from Kapor Capital and Genius Plaza, was given the Keeping the Promise 2020 Award from Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and most recently was awarded the 2021 Bert Lubin Quality Award from the Alameda Alliance for Health. Dr. Long received her B.S. from Stanford University in Biology and a B.A. in African and African-American History. She attended medical school at George Washington University and completed her residency and an infectious disease fellowship at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and was subsequently a Harvard Macy Institute Faculty Scholar. She is a certified facilitator for Circle of Security Parenting and currently is being certified as a Resilient Coach by Dovetail Learning.