About Polina
Polina E. Ilieva is an Associate University Librarian for Collections, UCSF Archivist, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Polina serves or served as a PI for several collaborative multi-institutional grant projects funded by the Sloan Foundation, National Archives, National Library of Medicine, and NEH that support the expansion and digitization of holdings related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, women scientists, and the history of health sciences. Polina partners with community organizations on issues related to records preservation with the goal of creating a more inclusive and equitable historical record. She launched and secured initial funding for the UCSF Digital Health Humanities Program. She is the immediate past President of the Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS) and serves on the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 5 Executive Committee. Polina is the UCSF NAGPRA Repatriation Point of Contact and is a co-director of the UCSF Program for Historical Reconciliation. She is the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Fellow.