She is not the infectious disease "honcho" at UCSF, but is well-respected. She is a popular interview by general news media because her info is generally approachable for the common man. Notably she is one of the few epidemiologists from UCSF that sounds more practical than "alarmist" about COVID throughout 2021.
I've grown to have a lot of trust in her. She's done some impressive and entertaining, long videos with zDoggMD during the pandemic. They aren't afraid to take controversial positions, they relish it and have lots of fun doing so, riffing off each other quickly and impressively.
Fauci is now saying that Omicron appears to maybe not be having as severe outcomes as other strains. But Ghandi is the first expert to come out publicly and say that, at least that I've seen.
As an institution that highly influences public health, UCSF seems to espouse a strong philosophy that if you think that the responses taken to COVID outweigh the actual case load, that means they actually worked. As we all (should) know, the city of SF has had one of the lowest case loads of any major city in the U.S.
The mayor of SF (London Breed) listens and is never in denial, which is, of course, a prerequisite for the job. However, it seems that most politicians don't. IIRC, S.F. was the first major city in the US to lockdown. They also have a very impressive head medical man, Grant Colfax.