my name is roberto vargas, and i work at ucsf in the community engagement health policy program. prior to coming to ucsf, i worked mostly in community based organizations and the school district, primarily serving young people out of low-income communities and communities of color in san francisco. and i came to ucsf to build partnerships between the universities and communities to address health inequities. so i'm fortunate that my work at ucsf is to help figure out how we can leverage the research and science of the universities to support health initiatives, but i'm also fortunate that the mission of the program that i serve is to focus on health equity in particular because that matches with my own personal mission, which is to serve the communities that i was born and raised here in san francisco and that i identify most closely with. i was born in the mission, grew up there. live index bayview-hunters point half my life. and in the world around sugary drinks, we focused on that because that is one of the ways we found we could make a difference in chronic disease inequities